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recoiling

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In an instant the dog's right eye opened and stared at Balsamo, who could not help recoiling.

Lightbody, overturning chair and table, sprang up—recoiling as one recoils before an avenging specter.

“Then I will call you Tenny,” said Jeanne, recoiling just a little from calling the woman aunty.

It was like one of the little dogs in our camp snapping at the patriarch of them all, and recoiling from a growl.

LAZARREMARY HARTWELL CATHERWOOD

The wolf, recoiling as if shot by a rifle, doubled into a heap, then sprang snarling away.

Miss Langton answers, angrily, recoiling from the white, extended hand.

I asked, recoiling from the brute, as Wemmick spat upon his eyebrow and gave it a rub with his sleeve.

Standing about, recoiling from the withering heat, could be seen a dozen stalwart forms.

Could I but escape one horrible picture, I would meet, without recoiling, the remembrance of the rest.

DISCIPLINEMARY BRUNTON

The fugitive Spaniards, recoiling from the savages, only changed one form of death for another.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985