shrinking
/ˈʃɹɪŋkɪŋ/ adjectif B2- Shy and retiring.
Dans la bibliothèque
By the time they arrived at the house Matthew was shrinking from the approaching revelation with an energy he did not understand.
“Anne Shirley,” faltered the shrinking child, not daring to make any stipulations regarding the spelling thereof, “and I’m eleven years old.”
She wheeled around in her chair, expecting to see Diana, and beheld a white-faced girl whose great eyes were brimmed up with a mixture of desperate courage and shrinking terror.
She marched the shrinking ghost-seer down to the spring and ordered her to proceed straightway over the bridge and into the dusky retreats of wailing ladies and headless specters beyond.
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