The man starting from the table confronted me on this entrance, and I stopped dead to that astounding living posture of terror, even Recoiling, as though he were alive indeed, and was jumping up from the table in his amazement at my apparition.
"The Frozen Pirate"
W. Clark Russell
And then, Recoiling from further wonderment, and, indeed, feeling some terror of becoming idiotic if this sort of thing went on much longer, she exclaimed, with reality in her voice: "Because it's not pretending to take an interest when it doesn't, like us.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
Her head was thrown back, her eyes blazing; and as she faced him, she slowly raised her arm and pointed a steady finger at the Recoiling figure.
"The Crevice"
William John Burns and Isabel Ostrander