Word: shrink
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...when I fain would write, I somehow shrink...
...Then shrink not with a maid's surprise...
...greatly many rising tendencies to convivial pleasures, betting and gambling, may at any time be aggravated into special activity and force by the representatives of the sporting class, that often hover sympathetically around them. What Christian father, solicitous for the highest future of his son, would not shrink with instinctive earnestness from exposing him in the dawn of his opening manhood to such untoward moral liabilities...
...Shrink from its grasp, deaf to its pleading...