shrinkingly
Example Sentences
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In the middle of the world's biggest war, a shrinkingly sensitive first novel with a 1920 theme has become a 1943 bestseller.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dane waited shrinkingly to hear Cassandra’s name, but he waited in vain.
From Lady Cassandra by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
In thus defying public opinion, and forming a connection in opposition to the laws of society, George Eliot must have undergone some trials and sufferings peculiarly painful to one so shrinkingly sensitive as herself.
From Mathilde Blind by George Eliot
And Roseheart looked upon him shrinkingly, and put away his arms, and rose, and stood away from him.
From The Stars in the Pool A Prose Poem for Lovers by Edna Kingsley Wallace
She had been talking at random, gradually becoming shrinkingly conscious of his constrained and stumbling manner.
From The Valiants of Virginia by Hallie Erminie Rives
