cowered

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And a wretched woman, holding her breath In the awful presence of sin and death, Cowered and shrank, while her neighbors thronged To look on the dead her shame had wronged.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 by Various

The deep voice speaking from the visor's grate Proceeded—while the two in abject state Cowered low.

From Poems by Hugo, Victor