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Indrawn

adjective
1.
Tending to reserve or introspection.  Synonym: withdrawn.






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"Indrawn" Quotes from Famous Books



... and a smile from Heath, she would move forward with hasty confidence, sometimes reaching the hearthrug with a run. She was made welcome, petted, apparently attended to with a whole mind. But while she delivered her soul of its burden, at great length and with many indrawn breaths and gusts of feeling, Heath was often saying ...
— The Way of Ambition • Robert Hichens

... an indrawn breath. And then, "What would you do? I'm only a girl after all, am I not? Here I'm leaning on you, ...
— The Readjustment • Will Irwin

... fierce fragments of no more a man. Then all the heroes drew sharp breath, and gazed, And smote not; but Meleager, but thy son, Right in the wild way of the coming curse Rock-rooted, fair with fierce and fastened lips, Clear eyes, and springing muscle and shortening limb— With chin aslant indrawn to a tightening throat, Grave, and with gathered sinews, like a god,— Aimed on the left side his well-handled spear Grasped where the ash was knottiest hewn, and smote, And with no missile wound, the monstrous boar ...
— Atalanta in Calydon • Algernon Charles Swinburne

... murmured once, standing still, with indrawn breath, "if it were mine!—if it were mine!" And she said the thing forgetting that her guide was a living ...
— The Shuttle • Frances Hodgson Burnett

... tone of agony in the Sister's voice Miss Jennings scrutinized her companion's face. Her trained ear had caught an indrawn, fluttering sob which she recognized as belonging to a certain form of hysteria. Brooding over her troubles, combined with the effects of the sea air, had ...
— The Veiled Lady - and Other Men and Women • F. Hopkinson Smith

... court of this low-class house as almost to seem to belong to it, was bathed in slanting sunlight. No tree in all the world could have looked more fair than it did just then in its garb of gilded bloom. With her hand up to her bare neck, and her cheeks indrawn from sucking the sweet, the little model fixed her eyes on the tree. Her expression did not change; she showed no signs of admiration. Her gaze passed on to the back windows of the house that really owned ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy



Words linked to "Indrawn" :   withdrawn, reserved



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