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Definition of Recoiled
1. recoil [v] - See also: recoil
Lexicographical Neighbors of Recoiled
Literary usage of Recoiled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"... his toilsome and unavailing efforts recoiled on themselves ; that the more he
thought, the less he comprehended : and the more he wrote, ..."
2. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1866)
"... contesting the ground with part of Longstreet's division, which, I am proud
to say, after hard fighting, recoiled before the Pennsylvania reserves. ..."
3. Roger of Wendover's Flowers of History: Comprising the History of England by Roger, Matthew Paris (1849)
"... and who had not yet come into action, bent their lances, and charged right
upon the enemy with such weight and force that all the Gallic ranks recoiled, ..."
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