Anglesey's mind has been steadily transforming itself into Joe and shrinking in the process.

So that the mind shrank from the glare of it.

His mind, tough as it already was, shrank from the image, horrified.

I wished dawn would come; but my mind shrank from the problems of the next day.

To have friends and family - an entire life - utterly destroyed, must be so devastating that the mind shrank from even imagining it.

But in an infinite universe, local can be so gigantic that your mind shrinks from it.

And even now Svensndot's mind shrank from that sort of revenge.

And, as always, her mind shrank from the choice.

His mind shrank from going near to the danger, and thereafter he was silent.

More horrible yet, he knew even as it happened that his mind was shrinking with his brain.