Yea, if my spirit cowers, Drive me with wrath!
"The Trojan Women of Euripides"
Euripides
Then be gave the signal to start up the spur-track, that leads to Jamrud, where a fort cowers in the very throat of the dreadfulest gorge in Asia-the Khyber Pass.
"King--of the Khyber Rifles"
Talbot Mundy
If one cowers away from it, if one tries to distract and beguile the soul, to forget the grief in feverish activity, well, one may succeed in dulling the pain as by some drug or anodyne; but the lesson of life is thereby deferred.
"The Silent Isle"
Arthur Christopher Benson