Cower

He has a fearsome intellect before which even the most learned cower.

Here, with her hundred daughters, pale with dread, / poor Hecuba and all her female train, / as doves, that from the low'ring storm have fled, / and cower for shelter from the pelting rain, / crouch round the silent gods, and cling to them in vain.

The answer to fear is not to cower and hide; it is not to surrender feebly without contest. The answer is to stand and face it boldly. Look at it, analyze it, and, in the end, act.

The noise caused Lorenzo to cower in fear.

Leonid's German Shepherd began to cower.

He'd be useless in war. He'd just cower in his bunker until the enemy came in and shot him, or until the war was over.

Our dame sits cowering o'er a kitchen fire.

Carrot ran past him to get to the barrel first, and peered down at the cowering Catweazle. “No rats, Dad,” he said. “What's that terrible pong, then?” said Mr Bennett, sniffing.

Some sterner virtues o’er the mountain’s breast May sit, like falcons, cowering on the nest

The mother bird had mov’d not, But cowering o’er her nestlings, Sate confident and fearless, And watch’d the wonted guest.