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Meanings of shrunk from in английском

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Usage of shrunk from in английском
1
The result does not alarm me; I have never shrunk from happiness.
The Cross of Berny; Or, Irene's Lovers
2
Agatha wondered she had so shrunk from the simple mystery now revealed.
Agatha's Husband: A Novel
3
I shrunk from facing such a contingency; I shrunk without knowing why.
A Little Union Scout
4
In that time Joyce has not shrunk from a fight with unions.
Reuters
5
I shrunk from her embraces; but she grasped me with greater firmness.
Confession; Or, The Blind Heart. A Domestic Story
6
But the child shrunk from the stranger, and clung to Mr. Dinsmore.
Elsie's New Relations / What They Did and How They Fared at Ion;...
7
Usually Missy would have shrunk from appearing before boys in bare feet.
Missy
8
He was punctual in attendance to business, and shrunk from no toil.
History of the Conquest of Peru
9
At the same time she shrunk from Wingfold as hard and unsympathetic.
Thomas Wingfold, Curate V3
10
He shrunk from that death-grapple, while they were in this unsettled state.
Love's Pilgrimage: A Novel
11
The fellow-nowI came to think it over-hadcertainly shrunk from detection.
Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts: A Book of Stories
12
She had shrunk from anything that carried associations of him with it.
The Real Adventure
13
You make it my duty, and I have never shrunk from duty.
The House of the Whispering Pines
14
And he knew that these were bad women, and shrunk from them.
Love's Pilgrimage: A Novel
15
Her guileless heart shrunk from concealment, as if it were something evil.
The Good Time Coming
16
I would have shrunk from assassinating you, though I wish your death.
Mohun; Or, the Last Days of Lee and His Paladins. / Final Memoir...
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Shrunk from through the time
Shrunk from across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common