shrink from

Let me go to bed, then, ' answered the boy, shrinking from Catherine's salute; and he put his fingers to his eyes to remove incipient tears.

He seemed to have no idea of shrinking from it, and set forward at last most punctually with his eldest daughter in his own carriage .

With all her love of knowledge she had a natural shrinking from raising curtains and looking into unlighted corners.

We would have avoided all this suffering simply by shrinking from strife.

Bravery (valor): Not shrinking from threat, challenge, difficulty, or pain; acting on convictions even if unpopular.

that we're shrinking from, rather than rising to, the challenges of the age.

Third, the US surpluses on services and investment income - which soared with the onset of recession - now are shrinking from their peaks.

The survey showed manufacturing shrinking from the month before (see chart 2), adding to the gloom on world markets.

C. Tilted line: feels like extending or shrinking from one end to another, create a diverse change and full of motion.

Although to some extent Mr Obama is again shrinking from leadership, it probably makes sense.

MySpace laid off 400 employees today, shrinking from about 1400 employees to about 1000.

Yet those forests have been cut in half in the past three decades, shrinking from 4. 2 million hectares in 1982 to 2 million in 2000.