Jaggers, "either beats, or cringes. He may cringe and growl, or cringe and not growl; but he either beats or cringes.
"Either beats or cringes," said Wemmick, not at all addressing himself to me.
For indeed, every sect of them, hath a diverse posture, or
cringe by themselves, which cannot but move derision in worldlings, and depraved politics, who are apt to contemn holy things.
Helpless, ridiculous, confined, bobbing like a toy mandarin, you sit like a rat in a trap--you, before whom butlers
cringe on solid land--and must squeak upward through a slit in your peripatetic sarcophagus to make your feeble wishes known.
As they came forward they began to
cringe towards Moreau and chant, quite regardless of one another, fragments of the latter half of the litany of the Law,--"His is the Hand that wounds; His is the Hand that heals," and so forth.
He appeared to
cringe, mute, as if words had failed him through grief; then - bang!
"It is all very well for Rostov, whose father sends him ten thousand rubles at a time, to talk about not wishing to
cringe to anybody and not be anyone's lackey, but I who have nothing but my brains have to make a career and must not miss opportunities, but must avail myself of them!" he reflected.
She was far too pretty to
cringe in this way, but Peter thought it his due, and he would answer condescendingly, "It is good.
The model will face the music after telling his pal Jordan Hames he wasn't sure about the Longford girl as she made him "
cringe a little bit" - despite picking her to couple up with.
In his signature move, the cricketer chugged around the Lord's excitedly, only to make some laugh and the others
cringe. The celebratory run caught the eye of Twitter fans and here are the funniest memes circulating on the internet.
I also
cringe when I see how many people spell things incorrectly.
One, @RealDaveRoberts, said on Twitter: "Watching the #BBCBreakfast hosts vibing to MC Grammar is honestly the most
cringe way to start your weekend.