"Shrink back" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... our worldly business or in our spiritual career, we start off on a very dark path. We must go. The flesh may shrink back, but there is a voice within, or a voice from above, saying, "You must go;" and we have to drink the gall, and we have to carry the cross, and we have to traverse the desert and we are pounded and flailed ...
— New Tabernacle Sermons • Thomas De Witt Talmage
... unexpected and had come with such suddenness—it was rarely in these later days that the colonel was to be found here in the afternoon: he was either riding or receiving visitors—that Harry's first thought was to shrink back out of sight, or, if discovered, to make some excuse for his intrusion and retire. Then his mind changed and he stepped boldly in. This was what he had come for and this was ...
— Kennedy Square • F. Hopkinson Smith
... of an angry snake, the flames seemed to shrink back at the touch of the elements to which they were opposed. The fan of fire, shooting from the windows, appeared to die ...
— The Young Firemen of Lakeville - or, Herbert Dare's Pluck • Frank V. Webster
... he swung it round his head, and made as though he would knock Oolalik down with it, causing that young Eskimo to shrink back in feigned alarm. ...
— The Walrus Hunters - A Romance of the Realms of Ice • R.M. Ballantyne
... condones. But the heart of the people does not condone them: and if a great voice does not say this, we shall wonder and be sorry. In the mean while let the parents and guardians of the young, and let the young themselves, shrink back from civilization as a guide to their way and as a power for keeping them safe, in the ...
— Is The Young Man Absalom Safe? • David Wright
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