What is "cowered"

Usage examples of "cowered".

Children cowered at the entrance to the tent, towheaded lads and lasses wearing the garb of noble kinfolk in stark contrast to the two score or more crudely garbed slaves huddled up against the walls of the tent.

Limping slightly, he crawled into the shade of a low palm and cowered away from his master's display.

The people cowered, an ancient reflex that dated back to the days when Purga had huddled in her burrow.

The conference delegates cowered and screamed—thereby adding to the din the bad guys wanted to create, Joan thought, her hands pressed to her ears.

Remembrance cowered, waiting for a chance to get away from these much-evolved descendants of farm animals.

Any human observer would have cowered from that great fire in the sky.

That once your elation wore off, you cowered in your bed and trembled like a child while Etta was nursing Wintrow.

The crew that would have followed Captain Kennit to any bloody death now fell silent at his approach and near cowered at a direct command from him.

He set off at a jogging run, and the men who had earlier cowered in the ruins hastened after him, until Reyn and Selden alone remained standing in the ruined plaza.

There were shrieks of terror and angry shouts as the gathered folk cowered in the shadow of the dragon.

People cried out in terror and cowered where they stood, but not Reyn.

She had cowered in their room while she should have angrily demanded good treatment for her man.

Men on the decks cowered while those in the rigging fled their lofty perches.

All around them, sailors either craned to look at the beast or cowered under shelter.

The whistling ceased as the Quman fled to their horses and cowered when her shadow passed over them.