Why should we shrink from our supreme Good, except as a sick man turns away from his natural food?
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
The glance she directed towards Merl made that gentleman shrink back, and eventually slide noiselessly from the room, and escape from the scene altogether.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
You seemed to shrink away from him and to be ready to fight him if he spoke pleasantly to you.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee