cower

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Even Cower concedes he doesn't know how much motivational fuel was generated by disrespecting the Terrible Towel… but reminding his players of it didn't hurt.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2018

The wide cultivation and the vigorous literary output of laymen of letters like Chaucer and Cower are sufficient evidence of this.

From The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) by Hunt, William

Before I quitted the premises, however, I learned that Tarleton, the actor of those times, was not buried at St. Saviour's, Southwark, as he wished, near Massinger and Cower, but at Shoreditch Church.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator by Various

"Cower low," said I to my company in the boat, pulling with all my might, the sweat pouring down my face.

From The MS. in a Red Box by Hamilton, John Arthur

Cower, kow′er, v.i. to sink down through fear, &c.: to crouch, for protection or in fear.—adv.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various