1 The lances burst into shivers up to the very grasp, and it seemed at the moment that both knights had fallen, for the shock had made each horse recoil backwards upon its haunches.
2 He was only caught in the general, popular recoil of the young against convention and against any sort of real authority.
3 She felt him recoil in his quick walk, when he saw her.
4 It can inform and lead into new places the flow of our sympathetic consciousness, and it can lead our sympathy away in recoil from things gone dead.
5 But she lay still, without recoil.
6 He was pale, his brows were sullen, he was as distant in recoil as the cold pole.
7 She saw him go pale, and recoil under this.
8 But perhaps she would recoil from a plot to take the life of Sikes, and that was one of the chief ends to be attained.
9 Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND 10 Trenor's face darkened to rage: her recoil of abhorrence had called out the primitive man.
11 But compassion, in a moment, got the better of her instinctive recoil.
12 Rosedale, reddening to the roots of his glossy hair, received this announcement with a recoil which carried him to his feet, where he halted before her in an attitude of almost comic discomfiture.
13 In striking at a boat, he swiftly curves away his flukes from it, and the blow is only inflicted by the recoil.
14 Yet, when they saw the home of the Widow Jukniene they could not but recoil, even so, in all their journey they had seen nothing so bad as this.
15 The rule of the Perpetual Adoration is so rigid in its nature that it alarms, vocations recoil before it, the order receives no recruits.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XI—END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS