There was a subtle recoiling, as if he'd struck her heart.

It is nothing but the elastic recoiling of the lungs.

And there's more behind that feeling than just an instinctive recoiling from horror.

"There was a great recoiling in the other spirits.

It is unnecessarily powerful, harsh recoiling, and unwieldy for use against lesser game.

And I always felt a funny little twitch in the hilt, a recoiling, as if the sword, too, was startled by my touch.

The murdering Germans were at last recoiling.

Recoiling, Polly twisted away from him.

She turned and saw him looking at her and for a moment he felt like recoiling under the icy glare she gave him.

Krishna Das says he can deal with such attention now, neither recoiling from it nor letting it rule his ego.

Perhaps her recoiling was what he had intended, what he was intending through this whole campaign of absence he'd been waging.

She could look at me and I wouldn't feel that horror, people recoiling from me - your Chesarynth wouldn't do that.

Every detail was razor-sharp: the tears rolling from her eyes, grief's trembling disfigurement of her face, even Quinn's silent recoiling in the background.

This was what they felt in the face of death--if anything, even stronger than Quath's stunned recoiling from the fiat facts of the universe.

His religious and mythological studies could be operatic, as in the red-chalk rendition of a recoiling, voluptuous Aurora, who draws her cape across her body.

Cop switched on the cozy glow of the desk lamp and Tristan had to grit his teeth to keep from recoiling from his reflection.

The Wynn convulsed, recoiling, rolling over and over, wrapping itself in itself, pale belly exposed in twisted loops.

Her recoiling when he had touched her, her expression when he had described their future, the deliberate crudity and detailed anticipation.

Blowback designs are simple and more accurate than designs using a recoiling, tilting, or articulated barrel, but they are limited practically by the weight of the slide.

But he felt the stares of security guards when he entered a store in a white neighborhood and the subtle recoiling of white women when he walked by.

"The Stuff of Recoiling," a new work to compositions by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and David Byrne, begins with sculptural poses for the dancers.

There were other juxtapositions in "The Stuff of Recoiling," to compositions by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and David Byrne.

But the Dallas series fits seamlessly into the pattern of the two that preceded it- the opposition does most of the attacking, and Phoenix, except for Bell, does most of the recoiling.

Apparently, whenever she'd gone close to this man he'd shooed her away, recoiling from her and muttering, 'Pork, pork, pork, VD, VD, white woman, white woman.'

What has received attention is his notion that there is always an asymmetry between institutions and their subjects and an ever-present recoiling and refracting agency in people: a source of creativity, dissonance and resistance.

Most women would recoil from them, but she in her good nature does not.

But she recoiled from what else was almost certainly true.

I will never know anyone like her again, he found himself thinking, and then recoiled.

What if he turned the one end inside out, and let it recoil?

Something came in through the door and I recoiled, thinking the war was on.

I do not know what my face looked like at his words but he recoiled from me.

I held the box out to him to open and he recoiled.

They recoiled from us when we reached out to them.

I felt him recoil as if the contact had been physical.

It was all he could do to keep from recoiling.

But in the way her body recoiled from him he knew that she would.

When he reached out toward her she tried not to recoil.

The two women, who had run to see him, recoiled.

With my wife and daughter gone I still was recoiling from the world.

He recoiled Monday when asked to answer questions about his future.

The guy next to me recoils further in his seat.

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

But the outside world recoiled in face of the constitutional break.

His mind recoiled in shame from what had been done.

She recoiled as though he had struck her across the face.

Yes, all the world would recoil in shock from that.

For me to see, and recoil from my own guilt.

But then she recoiled as if the man had burned her.

By the way her mind recoiled she knew it was worse.

He turned on the inside light and recoiled at the death mask.