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cower
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White Fang
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- He cowered down and snarled.†
Part 2 *cowered = showed fear by positioning the body as though afraid of being hit
- The result was a sharp peck on the end of his nose that made him cower down and ki-yi.†
Part 2
- As it was, he cowered down in a paralysis of fear, already half proffering the submission that his kind had proffered from the first time a wolf came in to sit by man's fire and be made warm.†
Part 3cowered = showed fear by positioning the body as though afraid of being hit
- The cub cowered closer to the ground.†
Part 3
- They loomed ominously above him; and when the breeze stirred them into huge movements, he cowered down in fear, keeping his eyes warily upon them, and prepared to spring away if they attempted to precipitate themselves upon him.†
Part 3
- When they threatened, he cowered down.†
Part 3
- He was the Wild—the unknown, the terrible, the ever-menacing, the thing that prowled in the darkness around the fires of the primeval world when they, cowering close to the fires, were reshaping their instincts, learning to fear the Wild out of which they had come, and which they had deserted and betrayed.†
Part 4cowering = showing fear by positioning the body as though afraid of being hit
- Grey Beaver clouted White Fang alongside the head, so that he cowered down close to the earth in respectful obedience.†
Part 4cowered = showed fear by positioning the body as though afraid of being hit
- In the days before, White Fang had had the wisdom to cower down and submit to a man with a club in his hand; but this wisdom now left him.†
Part 4
- Beauty Smith cowered down in anticipation of the blow.†
Part 4cowered = showed fear by positioning the body as though afraid of being hit
Definitions:
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(1)
(cower) show fear by positioning the body as though afraid of being hit
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) In classic literature, cower may also mean to crouch or curl up without any hint of fear.