I ran across him just now, and he cringed.
"Helena Brett's Career"
Desmond Coke
At first she cringed back as she saw the hot iron and the smoke rising from the hides and smelled the scorching hair and flesh.
"The Desert Valley"
Jackson Gregory
There was Alexander, Czar of Russia, gigantic and bearlike, who had once cringed to Napoleon, then frozen and starved him in the Moscow campaign, and now was one of the chiefs of the alliance.
"Superwomen"
Albert Payson Terhune