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    1. He then proceeded to blow up every electrical device in his home, blocked every entrance, and boarded up his windows, then went to cower in his bedroom…


    2. Helios continued to cower behind thick clouds


    3. He had almost reached her when she finally pulled the trigger, sounding off an ear-deafening blast that made her flinch and cower


    4. A night watchman would be alone and carry a flashlight, not cower, whispering behind a bunch of barrels


    5. No one, not even Jeanine, makes Tobias cower


    6. There is no wrathful god to cower down to as this was also added by those who sought control


    7. Elmyra, allowing the girl to cower behind her


    8. inspecting the hallway, they were more than once forced to cower


    9. But too often cower mute in the shadows to avoid ridicule or retribution for being politically incorrect if spoken aloud


    10. seeing us scurry and cower

    11. I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat


    12. 13 Let the heathen cower before your invincible might today O glorious One who has all power to save the race of Jacob


    13. snapped the whip viciously over a drover's head making him cower in added fear


    14. onto the skin of my hand, making me cower even more


    15. The question is, how will I or anyone react to seeing some character start toward me behind the point of a long sharp spear? How will one of us react if he looks up and sees hundreds of lethal missiles poised at the top of their trajectory, and all aimed at him? Will he freeze, cower under his shield, run behind a tree?"


    16. As the bandit arrows rose Dasczo yelled, "Duck!" and they slid off the boxes to cower on the floor


    17. Thalia already had Aegis on her arm, and even our own teammates were giving her a wide berth, trying not to cower before the bronze head of Medusa


    18. He paced up and down while his minions cower just out of reach of his sword


    19. I have seen the whole city screaming and tearing its hair, and running frenziedly out of the gates, to cower outside the walls and draw lots to see which would be bound and flung back through the arched doorways to satisfy Thog's lust and hunger


    20. He felt sadness in his heart as he watched them cower from him as if he was a monster

    21. -Dogs that cower when they see a person/s are off limits


    22. The spirit of God fills the believers; this is the reason why the unbelievers cower before their glory


    23. “So that’s it? The head lion roars and you cower in the corner like a lamb?”


    24. He knew Tifa had remained in her bar, Cloud had tried to talk her into the shelters and she'd refused, she had told him that she could not cower in shelters while her friends were out fighting


    25. I was no longer able to cower in a corner


    26. If he can’t even face his own brothers or the Vikings, then he better not think that he could cower into submission people who have flying ships and weapons that throw lightning bolts


    27. I raise my hands to my head and cower beneath them


    28. They swear by open-mindedness but what they mean by that is selective openness if an idea appears archaic and exotic they cringe and cower to the depths of misconstruction


    29. thaniel asked, making me cower into the couch from his hard stare


    30. as masses of his people cower in fear?

    31. Nightmares? World ending, terror and extinction cower beneath the senseless lash of the tyrannical


    32. scary thing and he wanted desperately to cower, but


    33. Do you understand that?” It pressed its lipless mouth into a tight line, and Stedder held his breath and tried his best to cower convincingly---not really so hard to do


    34. I will never cower before any master nor bend to any friend


    35. All these bullies cower,


    36. Though he was at fault, ‘twas not the time to cower


    37. When it rained, Tom was mostly somewhere in the prairie, and there was nothing else to do but to cower under his coat and wait for it to pass


    38. Finch certainly didn't cower


    39. The sudden attack and its severity had forced most of Shiva’s camp to cower behind


    40. To the credit of the man, he did not cower at the fate that played out in all its apocalyptic reprisal before him

    41. Which one will cower? Lowering their stance and height


    42. His name was Jacques; the only mortal he had ever met who didn't cower in his presence


    43. „I'm remembering,' Roy replied challengingly, knowing that he should not cower before


    44. ' Just then a shot was fired in the kitchen, which made us jump and cower as if at a thunder-clap


    45. defenses of the city, Scarlett was so frightened by the bursting shells she could only In those first days of the siege, when the Yankees crashed here and there against the cower helplessly, her hands over her ears, expecting every moment to be blown into eternity


    46. She would have to cower at the seat of judgment and answer for that lie she told him coming back from the Yankee camp in his buggy


    47. He spoke with a firmness which was very gentle, and yet he could see that Bulstrode seemed to cower under that gentleness, his face looking dried and his eyes swerving away from the glance which rested on him


    48. drag of the Ring that made him cower and stoop as he walked


    49. Would humanity cower in fear, or stand its ground and fight back?


    50. The two kids aren’t playing a game—they’re defending their home! Their parents cower behind the couch, watching as their two children do battle with the giant alien machine, with the help of hundreds of other drones operated by their neighbors





    1. I cowered and shook


    2. I cowered before them, staring at them in wide-eyed horror, hopelessly confused


    3. A few deaths for incompetence in following his orders and they all soon cowered from him


    4. On the way out I cowered in my father's leather backseat, sure I was being escorted in luxury towards my death


    5. Upstairs in the bedroom Helen Roach cowered down between the bed and wall, as far away from the sound of scratching demons as she could crawl


    6. The dog looked so pathetic as he cowered there in


    7. Filbert cowered and covered his face with his


    8. Meanwhile, Sunil, Tipene and Wiremu cowered in the remains of Sunil’s room, when suddenly the projector started, seemingly on its own


    9. Same response, the dog cowered, backing away from his cage door


    10. Then it became ashamed of itself almost and cowered into a subservient of European and world philosophies

    11. Joseph and I cowered, as the light struck our faces and the man saw us


    12. He cowered and poked a finger at Doc


    13. The lizard retreated and cowered in a corner


    14. He lifted his fist and brought it down on the man again and again, the blows destroying him as he cowered, weak and gutless


    15. Running for cover of the boat, the other four cowered


    16. While George cowered in a booth at the back of the bar watching the door for Leon to come through, he was in his Range Rover roaring past the national soccer stadium, on his way to Limon


    17. He was instantly livid with the arrogant bastard, sitting there like a sultan wearing the hated symbols of the Sandinistas, whose officers cowered before their Russian and East German overlords while the People lived under martial law


    18. It wasn’t like last time when she had cowered, fearful any expression other than total submission might be read in her eyes, angering him that he would hurt her again


    19. Everyone cowered before its falling shadow, as if it was coming down on their own heads


    20. All of her women had cowered thoughtlessly behind her as visions of trampling brought looks of dismay and then despair to their faces

    21. Daphnie held the book in front of her face in fear and cowered


    22. Cloud glanced up to see Aerith cowered against the far wall of the


    23. He cowered under the same blanket of hate and


    24. Toivo cowered, busy with the task of surveying his


    25. Women and children cowered in the background; waiting, hoping and obviously starving


    26. She dared not utter a sound and cowered against the wall


    27. bedroom and shot in the head as she cowered in her clothes closet


    28. Grover cowered by the railing, his hooves clopping back and forth


    29. to crash into her face, she suddenly cowered away from him,


    30. A gaunt, aged halfling cowered in the doorway

    31. They cowered in abject terror as she pointed first to the Vassal’s hair and then to the edge of the terrace


    32. Wouldn’t my my wet C know how to heat-treat V’s R? What an irony, I owe V to M, the hateful quisling! How funny V developed cold feet after that hot pursuit! He cowered, the bully that he was, and I should’ve played the elder sister to him


    33. Her servants cowered and ran, well aware of the danger when she was in that mood


    34. Something whirred above her head and she cowered, even though realizing it was only a bat


    35. Yasmina cowered in a corner, staring in horror as the two men fought back and forth across the room, almost trampling her at times; the flash and clangor of their blades filled the room, and outside the mob clamored like a wolf-pack, hacking deafeningly at the bronze door with their long knives, and dashing huge rocks against it


    36. Then she stumbled and slid to the floor, where she cowered, staring up at the man on the dais


    37. Yasmina cowered on the farther edge of a velvet-covered dais, screaming her loathing and horror, an arm lifted as if to ward off attack, while before her swayed the hideous head of a giant serpent, shining neck arching up from dark-gleaming coils


    38. The second pusher cowered in the corner and begged for his life


    39. Once more the heavy machine gun rattled out its bullets into the heart of the wood where the soldiers cowered behind tree stumps and fallen trees


    40. The Corinthian girl still cowered on the gallery where he had left her

    41. There only seemed to be two pups, who cowered when Pedro was looking out


    42. Mark cowered in front of him


    43. The man still cowered, in disbelief, but didn’t move from the bed


    44. glaring hard at the cowered


    45. My slaves scattered and cowered in fear of my devilish horror


    46. "Nothing, bye!" said the tallest as they cowered away towards


    47. Many modern women would have simply cowered in a corner, too scared to act


    48. I in turn, slowly opened the lid and then cowered in a


    49. Meanwhile, Bobby was cowered in a corner, teary-eyed and


    50. ����������� As people around her screamed and cowered or ran away, she cautiously walked towards the wounded assassin, her pistol at the ready











































    1. Big Petey found that he was cowering on the ground with his hands over his head


    2. cowering before to the bully


    3. So I felt forced to take a shit, cowering in the corner and then I took a piss in the other


    4. Most of the villagers of Trouble Valley were either dead or hiding in the remains of their homes, cowering in fear


    5. menacingly towards the cowering ferryman


    6. She wanted to kill them herself, put an end to their lives before they humiliated the elven race by cowering in the keep, waiting for death


    7. Kiri was still clinging to his shirt, cowering behind him, hanging onto the warmth of his body


    8. But he said nothing and just stared with those menacing eyes that reduced Raven to a child cowering beneath a titan


    9. When the Great Wizard Catalant appeared, Cruzel was cowering in a corner using a disobedient table as a shield, stopping it from breaking free and cavorting with its ilk


    10. After some searching, she found a closet with cleaning supplies cowering under grime dating back to the Bronze Era

    11. It had served him well so far but somewhere, deep inside his psyche, he’d always wanted to be different - the hero prep-school boy who earned respect by beating his enemies with his fists instead of cowering behind the bigger boy he’d paid to protect him


    12. Most people would be grateful for such an experience and thank me instead of cowering under the seat


    13. They'd had grown soft in their protected positions and were soon cowering before him


    14. Then he stood over the cowering youth and smiled


    15. “But, Doña,” she answered, cowering like a whipped puppy


    16. The beasts were slipping away, frightened and cowering


    17. She opened her eyes wide and glared at the two small creatures cowering in front of her


    18. The kid’s shoulders slumped, and there was that furtive cowering impression again


    19. nothin’…” Wedge mumbled, cowering as the box


    20. to struggle with the forceful offensive, cowering on his bike in

    21. the cautious stare of cowering homes, the residents of which he


    22. The chief hopped over to the wimpy humans cowering in the


    23. sanctity of their bedrooms to lie cowering in fear


    24. Neuroscientists may chase the self—the soul they deny—down the dark alley of absolute materialism and grasp at the prey they see cowering in a corner


    25. In some techno-surreal futuristic world, man can once again reclaim his immortal throne, stamp his authority over the cowering cosmos, and proclaim himself god of everything


    26. I found her cowering behind him in his courtyard


    27. “You should be ashamed of yourselves!” he turned back, continuing his tirade toward his cowering subordinates, but in a bellow slightly less menacing than before


    28. was still cowering near the rail; and shrinking more by the


    29. face, ever closer, until I was cowering on top of the sheets,


    30. cowering in the corner

    31. As Parker, the Primagnon, stood there, waiting for the panic-stricken mob to settle down, he flexed his powerful intellect and let his mind reach out and envelope the personalities of the hundreds of the human being cowering before him


    32. On a tapestry behind the statues was a scene with the two figures matching the casts cowering, from what appeared to be, an elder couple


    33. A lightning-rod in the lady’s hand sent a great beam of light down upon the cowering couple


    34. anyone who had accused us of anything to a cowering pile, and, once we were back in the


    35. " He pointed at Eva, who was cowering in a corner


    36. She was too busy cowering behind her cash register


    37. “Sir,” said the cowering man running the presses, “that edition shipped an hour ago


    38. cowering in their homes, afraid to go out


    39. without cowering like a wounded animal


    40. Hassid rose to his feet and stood over his cowering son as if undecided what to do, then suddenly slammed his fist into the side of Cador’s head, knocking him to the floor

    41. Using the fine point of his horn to underscore the magnitude of his orders, the King commanded the cowering creature to collect the smallest, most rot-infested boat at the bottom of the sea and tow it to the surface; there, he was to wait for two children on the shore


    42. Matthew witnessed this and when he saw his brother on the ground crying and Paul who was of college going age cowering over him he snapped


    43. The bus pulled out of the station with Nick cowering behind the curtain of the bus window and until the bus left Sihanoukville far behind, that’s where he remained


    44. The beautiful face in the disk was convulsed with the aspect of a fury; so hellish became its expression that Taramis, cowering back, half expected to see snaky locks writhe hissing about the ivory brow


    45. In spite of himself Conan followed his gaze, and so did the women—the girl cowering by the trembling stallion, and the girl beside Khemsa


    46. Blackfin’s promised reward was a six-year-old girl-child cowering in the corner of the room into which I was carried


    47. It's dirty! It's dirty!" The woman towered over the cowering boy, crouched in the corner


    48. -Should be interested in people; no cowering away or


    49. I retorted, I should be helping, not cowering in fear


    50. Afterwards, a Siamese cat who was cowering in the corner













































    1. As the big blue and yellow flailing brushes descend on the car, I pat Sam’s head, she’s not too sure about this bit and cowers down on the seat


    2. I’m not that girl who cowers under


    3. McAdams, the prisoner who was not introduced and who cowers there in the middle like a pathetic toad, must be spared the torments of hell because in his crimes he served me


    4. " My mom cowers


    5. All positive energy radiates all negative energy does not radiate, it hides from the sun and cowers inside filthy holes and only comes out in the night under the shadows of the undead


    6. Now, she cowers


    7. “Well—we is taken finally because o’ Rackham’s Cowardice an’, our Ship bein’ batter’d by Hurricanoes, an’ damaged in the Riggin’ an’ the Masts, we is pursu’d by Pyrate-Chasers from Port Royal, an’ when the Bastards comes about to board us, Jack Rackham cowers in his Cabin like a Cowardly Dog! Mary an’ I mann’d the Decks alone—but O, brave as we was, we cannot take three Pyrate-Catchers single-handed! Carried to Jamaica in Chains we is, an’ there in Port Royal have the grandest Trial that e’er was seen since Cap’n Kidd was hang’d! A drunken Judge, lyin’ Witnesses, a drunken Barrister—all the Glories o’ British Justice! Why, when Mary an’ me says: ‘Milord, we pleads our Bellies’—the drunken Judge thinks we means to say ’tis Time fer Dinner! Fer yer British Judges is e’er attun’d to their Bellies an’ not to the Meat, as ’twere, o’ the Trial! When a Prisoner pleads her Belly, all the bloody Judge can think of is his own Mutton Roast!”


    8. Mom clutches Dad’s polo shirt and cowers beside him


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    Synonyms for "cower"

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    "cower" definitions

    crouch or curl up


    show submission or fear