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Familiar Quotations

Cowering

It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.–Edward Dahlberg

It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination. If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.–Annie Dillard

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.–Orison Swett Marden

Cowering – "Cringe"

Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar. The pride of no person in a flourishing condition is more justly to be dreaded than that of him who is mean and cringing under a doubtful and unprosperous fortune.–Burke

Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.–Henry Miller

I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?–Irwin Shaw

Cowering – "Crouch"

They that crouch to those who are above them, always trample on those who are below them.–George Earle Buckle

Use in Literature

Cowering

He cowered before the resolute glance of his small opponent.–Horatio Alger in Do and Dare.

Yes, genius as he is, he positively cowered.–Grant Allen in An African Millionaire.

The mustang did not move forward, but cowered.–Gertrude Atherton in The Valiant Runaways.

One stumbles against barriers of cowering clustered beings who bleed and howl in the bottom.–Henri Barbusse in Under Fire.

• Preface v
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Cowering 1
• Cowering – "Cringe" 1
• Cowering – "Crouch" 1
• Use in Literature 2
• Cowering 2
• Cowering – "Behind" 9
• Cowering – "Black" 9
• Cowering – "Blows" 10
• Cowering – "Children" 10
• Cowering – "Close" 11
• Cowering – "Corner" 11
• Cowering – "Crouch" 12
• Cowering – "Eyes" 14
• Cowering – "Fear" 15
• Cowering – "Foot" 15
• Cowering – "Felt" 16
• Cowering – "Few" 16
• Cowering – "Great" 17
• Cowering – "Hands" 17
• Cowering – "Head" 18
• Cowering – "House" 19
• Cowering – "Little" 19
• Cowering – "Looked" 20
• Cowering – "Man" 21
• Cowering – "Once" 23
• Cowering – "Shadow" 23
• Cowering – "Shelter" 23
• Cowering – "Sound" 24
• Cowering – "Terrors" 24
• Cowering – "Trembling" 25
• Cowering – "White" 25
• Nonfiction Usage 27
• Script Usage 27
• Journalism Usage 27
• Lexicographic Usage 28
• Index 34