All 6 Uses of
recoil
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- The soldiers interposed their bayonets, for they thought that he was about to attack the inspector, and the latter recoiled two or three steps.†
Chpt 13-14 *
- Dantes uttered blasphemies that made his jailer recoil with horror, dashed himself furiously against the walls of his prison, wreaked his anger upon everything, and chiefly upon himself, so that the least thing,—a grain of sand, a straw, or a breath of air that annoyed him, led to paroxysms of fury.†
Chpt 15-16
- Dantes recoiled from the idea of so infamous a death, and passed suddenly from despair to an ardent desire for life and liberty.†
Chpt 19-20
- Maximilian sprang down the staircase, and threw his arms round his father's neck; but suddenly he recoiled, and placed his right hand on Morrel's breast.†
Chpt 29-30
- [*] But I, being only a little child, was terrified by this undaunted courage, which appeared to me both ferocious and senseless, and I recoiled with horror from the idea of the frightful death amidst fire and flames which probably awaited us.†
Chpt 77-78
- "Listen; I am the only man in the world having the right to say to you, 'Morrel, your father's son shall not die to-day;' " and Monte Cristo, with an expression of majesty and sublimity, advanced with arms folded toward the young man, who, involuntarily overcome by the commanding manner of this man, recoiled a step.†
Chpt 105-106
Definition:
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(recoil) to move backward suddenly (sometimes figuratively)especially:
- the backward jerk of a gun or cannon when it is fired
- when a person flinches (suddenly draws back) from someone or something, as with fear, disgust, or pain
- when a person is emotionally repulsed, as by disgust
- when something intended to go in one direction figuratively falls back in the opposite direction; for example, a story told to hurt someone that comes back to hurt the teller