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Prosecutor Sarah Healing said he rained punches on his victim in a "windmill-like fashion" while she cowered on the ground.

She said: "In a panic she goes upstairs to her daughter's bedroom, she finds her cowered under the bed covers.

Abukar was shot as he cowered behind a tree begging for his life.

When we first had her she cowered and growled when she heard young boys.

A SCOTS director of collapsed Christmas hamper firm Farepak yesterday cowered behind his front door and refused to answer questions on the collapse.

The escalating imbalance between availability of financial aid grant money and reliance on student loans is now a serious point of pain for higher ed administrators, as well as for the college students cowered by unprecedented financial burdens.

I can't imagine anybody seriously arguing that my parents' generation should have cowered in some Little Italy somewhere, boasting that their reputations as Guineas and gangsters somehow ennobled them.

In it, black-wigged Wilis in frothy skirts cowered and twitched like subservient animals whenever their queen appeared.

Colonel Gaddafi's favourite son, 39, cowered in the back of a plane as jubilant crowds celebrated his arrest.

TERRIFIED workers cowered behind the doors of a Wal-Mart store as a 2000-strong crowd of "savages" bayed to be let in.

A Scots director of Farepak cowered behind his front door when confronted by the Sunday Mail.

THE Sunday Mercury has never cowered from blasting some of the daft and sometimes downright sick exhibitions that masquerade as serious art.

With less hope of rescue, residents of two besieged cities cowered in homes awaiting a final battle.

"Instead, they just cowered on the ground with their hands in the air.