Significats de shrinking together en anglès

There was a shrinking together of the shoulders and a bending of the knees.

The young man dropped his head and went out, shrinking together into the darkness.

Deronda gave an indistinct "Oh," just shrinking together and changing his attitude a little.

Yanson was silent, shrinking together.

He gave a great start at his brother's coming, shrinking together in a fashion that seemed to make him smaller.

Then he cowered, shrinking together as if striving to sink into the ground, to return to unconsciousness, terrified by some overwhelming, incomprehensible horror.

She was overwhelmed, and huddling and shrinking together, seemed ten years older all at once, while he thought her beautiful and expressed his rapture aloud: