cowering

Stewart cowered in the kitchen area and called police to tell them Mouser was hurting her mother, she said, but Blake took the phone from her and told them that nothing was wrong.

Hervey, cowering in the chair, thus met with an antagonist against whom he had no armor.

He was standing over her now, and she was cowering before him, her shaking hands rising as though to ward off his eyes.

Filling his cupped hands with water, he sent up shower after shower of mimic rain between them and the miserable, cowering beast.

They bend their necks, cowering before the fierce glow, but daring it, and prepared to face it at even closer range.

Crash after crash sent them cowering under the covers of their beds.

But she could not stop to think of this: she could think only of Melvina, cowering, wet and afraid, under the juniper bushes.

Elena crept to the sofa and sank down in a heap, cowering there in one corner, striving to think.

Suddenly he swung around and gripped the cowering form of the second ranking priest, who stood near him.

He was cowering near the dirty ragged little Red Cross flag, with his head between his knees, and did not hear me come up.