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cowed
1. Across from where I sat one of them flopped onto the bench, breathless, sipping a fizzy diet drink from a can, panting beneath the weight of her robes and fighting in vain to keep her eyes open and to keep her mouth from drooping but her personal enthusiasm cowed before the pressures and the stresses and the strains
2. from the blow and was genuinely cowed by Grinly's
3. The Lieutenant wasn’t cowed by this as he replied
4. As those Ashantis stood trembling, cowed and disheartened, looking one moment at the yelling crowd, then at the ever rolling expanse of the vast Atlantic, a sight few of them had ever seen before, a thrill of pity must have gone through all the hearts of those white people there
5. Most other badgers were cowed by his size, doing as he ordered without argument, but he knew that mere strength would be no match against Grindel's cunning
6. They might be much more cowed now, but that’s not what he needed to wage war
7. Today, scientists in this effort are cowed and are afraid to come out
8. An instant later, a wind flung Lord Skraetock aside and cowed the shrieking flames
9. Through access to the Internet The Daily Bell predicts that in the near future more masses of people will begin realize how they have been “lied to, impoverished and cowed” by the power elite’s “dominant social themes”
10. Startled, Youssaf reached out a restraining hand toward Moshe’s shoulder as a now thoroughly cowed Gad leaped to his feet, standing stiffly at attention while his downcast gaze was fixed in the general direction of Moshe’s feet
11. Glaring at his commanders as he concluded his tirade, Myserrah hoped that he had cowed them sufficiently to assure himself of their allegiance, but the new boldness of the few disturbed him
12. thoroughly cowed Gad leaped to his feet, standing stiffly at attention while his downcast gaze
13. Glaring at his commanders as he concluded his tirade, Myserrah hoped that he had cowed
14. Though whether this is because the villagers are cowed by the air of authority he possesses, or because they are eager to hear him out, Simon cannot tell
15. But she wouldn't be cowed in her own home
16. He turned to a thoroughly cowed Zeno
17. resignation on their faces, all effectively cowed into submission
18. He picked up his pack and gun, thoroughly cowed
19. The pirates were too cowed and battered to have any thought except a desire to get away from that island of fear
20. Perhaps Hu Lyang thought that he had broken her spirit and that she would no longer contemplate escaping – she would remember to act cowed when he again appeared
21. But they are so cowed and helpless that they could give no aid to the invaders
22. Alfred stood his ground and refused to be cowed
23. He cowed to his dad
24. It is a sorry fact that our MPs are frequently cowed
25. Louie was not cowed by the fearless young woman
26. Garcia cowed her into silence with a look
27. Worf appears cowed by the comment
28. Perhaps Nick's no-nonsense face transmitted just how far he had slipped towards the edge of insanity, but whatever the reason, Silvero appeared suitably cowed
29. Sheaar was sufficiently cowed into submission
30. The materialists have such absolute power in academia and the media, and have so confused the issue with disinformation and cowed their critics with ridicule, that any criticism of materialism and its dictatorial tactics is touted as an attack on science itself
31. “Yes,” Tammas said, looking at the floor, feeling a bit cowed
32. McCoy gave Tammas a looked that cowed him back into line
33. They were cowed and deeply shocked
34. But Although Nangong Ping was very young, he was not cowed or
35. Although these men were cowed by Lady
36. cowed by dangers? Is there dangers in this world that can possible harm me?!” He
37. God, how could he give up so easily? Was the rest of the town so easily cowed, so devoid of hope? If they were, she was fighting a losing battle, and the enemy wasn’t GrandGoods
38. She is cowed
39. The president was cowed
40. One father for 200 million American dimwits or 350 million USSR cowed slaves
41. I would not be cowed by a bunch of hypocrites
42. She was silent, subdued and utterly cowed
43. He just laughed at me, was convinced that I'd be so desperate to get the drugs he supplied that I'd be as cowed as the rest, only too glad to do what he said
44. She doesn’t spend much time with them, except my sisters, but Ma’s done got all of them cowed into submission
45. The black robed figure had ceased from berating the cowed soldiers in front of him and had wheeled his stallion around to stare in my direction
46. Koke was jerked forward by a knot of pirates, who looked cowed by the insane fury of their leader
47. He nodded weakly completely cowed and I let his head drop back towards the floor
48. So cowed was their condition, and so long and hard their experience of what such a man could do to them, within the law and beyond it, that not a voice, or a hand, or even an eye was raised
49. " By this almost all the Christians were on board, and the Moors, who were fainthearted, hearing their captain speak in this way, were cowed, and without any one of them taking to his arms (and indeed they had few or hardly any) they submitted without saying a word to be bound by the Christians, who quickly secured them, threatening them that if they raised any kind of outcry they would be all put to the sword
50. The woman was cowed and went off disconsolately, hanging her head; and the governor said to the man, "Honest man, go home with your money, and God speed you; and for the future, if you don't want to lose it, see that you don't take it into your head to yoke with anybody
