recoil

The child recoiled from the door, and it closed upon her.

And thus his trick recoiled on him, for he now carried on his back a double burden.

At the sound, Armand recoiled as though from an electric shock, and he grasped my hand with such strength that he hurt me.

For a moment I thought father was going to beat me , and I recoiled in horror .

I recoiled in the face of a degenerative condition without a cure.

Their troops recoiled before the attack of the enemy.

Northern creditors recoiled as they increasingly doubted the ability of the blighted economies to repay the debts they had amassed.

Ruggum, his eyes riveted upon the phantom , recoiled mechanically to the western wall .

Catherine tried to follow these words, but they seemed to lead toward a vague horror from which she recoiled.

Mr. Hareton recoiled, looking as foolish as he could do.

He now recoiled in equal terror before both the resolutions at which he had arrived in turn.

Loch quickly recoiled and slammed the door shut.

As he leaned towards her she instinctively recoiled.

Americans of all denominations recoiled in disgust at the sexual sins - both homosexual and heterosexual - of prominent British leaders.

In one of those pauses she recoiled and cried out, for she saw a figure standing in the room.

After World War II the (West) Germans recoiled against Hitler's violent conquests and renounced possession of armed forces altogether.

and from this unthinkable indecency the clan recoiled with a collective shudder.

He recoiled from side to side between the various objects.

At first, Kiki recoiled in fear as he looked out at strange faces.

With poetic justice, the crisis recoiled against Paris and destroyed the franc.

Turnus threw his lance, but it recoiled harmless from the shield of Aeneas.

When my daughter asked whether she should become a nurse, I recoiled.

The gendarmes released Jean Valjean , who recoiled .

She recoiled at the idea of paying $70 for a theater ticket.

You recoiled away from anything of the sort.

And I recoiled. They stank!

He recoiled from the idea of scolding the bishop's wife, in the bishop's presence.

He recoiled at the sight of the corpse.

She recoiled at the sight of the snake.

The policemen and agents recoiled.

She recoiled from the idea of betraying her own brother .

She recoiled from the gunman in terror.

His cruelty to others recoiled in the end upon himself.

In the instinctive association of prisoners with shameful crime and disgrace, the new comer recoiled from this company.

More than that: they've recoiled with respect.

She shrank from entering the grimy bar with him but once inside, she recoiled at every depraved face that met her gaze

My mother's revered brother Willard had liked Poe, from whose stories she recoiled with a tolerant shudder;

When intelligence re-awakened and beheld that action of the brute, Jean Valjean recoiled with anguish and uttered a Cry of terror

then , as she went , she heard voices , and recoiled

Once inside a seedy club, she recoiled AT every depraved face thAT met her gaze