例文・使い方で印象づける「shrinking」の覚え方
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Gustavo Adolfo Becquer 「Legends, Tales and Poems」
...I saw again the shapeless features of the man in theTube station, the residuum of shrinking mortality behind his disguises...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
... Then Tarzan read in the spoorof the smaller Gomangani a shrinking terror of the beast that brushedhis side, but in that of the old man was no sign of fear...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Jungle Tales of Tarzan」
...The battle-field is poetically termed the bed of honor: but the bravest man might be excused for shrinking from a burial in his enemy's stomach! Poetry can make nothing of such a fate...
Horatio Bridge 「Journal of an African Cruiser」
...She has nerved the frail and shrinking heart of woman for high and holy deeds...
William Still 「The Underground Railroad」
...Rena's shrinking from the irrevocable step of marriage was due to asimple and yet complex cause...
Charles W. Chesnutt 「The House Behind the Cedars」
...Moreand more envious grew Jane’s eyes asshe watched the rapid shrinking of thething she most coveted just then...
Various 「Ainslee's magazine, Volume 16, No. 2, September, 1905」
...But I showed at the surface no sign of how I was wincing and shrinking...
Various 「Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905」
..."I never heard ofhis shrinking coyly behind another name when hewanted to spend money...
Albert Payson Terhune 「Lad: A Dog」
...Their very voices were a misery to the shrinking, aching,choking Finn, who stood shuddering in his fetid den, his sensitive nosewrinkling with horror and disgust...
A. J. Dawson 「Finn The Wolfhound」
...A little later, and I find another empty relic;then another, and yet another, until the population of my menagerie israpidly shrinking...
J. H. Fabre Bernard Miall 「Social Life in the Insect World」
...Its freedom from causing great shrinking or shrivelling ofthe integument...
Montagu Browne 「Practical Taxidermy」
...Fill this up with sufficient putty to allow for shrinking,sewing it to the outer skin...
Montagu Browne 「Practical Taxidermy」
...Our bodies almost filled the shrinking pit! Polter lurched andcast me off...
Various 「Astounding Stories, March, 1931」
...They ran out of the open end of the shrinking little gully and came toa new upward vista...
Various 「Astounding Stories, March, 1931」
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