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Meanings of cringing manner in English

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Usage of cringing manner in English
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His cringing manner was most despicable; and Harland answered in a tone of quiet scorn:
The Four Canadian Highwaymen; Or, The Robbers of Markham Swamp
2
He asked, with a cringing manner and a treacherous smile, "What security, sir?"
It Is Never Too Late to Mend
3
His cringing manner and his soft voice (we conversed in German) touched my heart.
Tracks of a Rolling Stone
4
But no one had ever come in a more cringing manner than did this latest victim.
Glen of the High North
5
Suppleness, meanness, an admiring, dependent, cringing manner-aboveall, an air of nothingness-werethe sole means of pleasing him.
Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 1...
6
An instant afterwards there appeared a little wizened fellow with a cringing manner and a shambling style of walking.
Sherlock holmes: the complete illustrated novels
7
"But why, then, your cringing manner of approaching the throne?"
Thuvia, Maid of Mars
8
"Arorara will do them no harm," said the individual in as cringing manner as before.
The Lost Trail
9
'Show him round here.' An instant afterwards there appeared a little wizened fellow with a cringing manner and a shambling style of walking.
Sherlock Holmes: The complete canon
10
'"Show him round here." An instant afterwards there appeared a little weazened fellow, with a cringing manner and a shambling style of walking.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs of Sherlock Ho...
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