Matt felt his soul shrink gibbering into the middle of his being, trying to pull him in after it.

And his comfortable little soul shrank back appalled.

And Isaac's soul shrank from the death that lurked there.

Away ahead of him he saw them blaze with his mind's eye, and his soul shrank, and darkness fell upon the light.

Silvan had never seen a blight of this kind attack so many trees before, and his soul shrank from the sight.

Una's lips trembled and her sensitive little soul shrank within her.

His soul, warm and exposed from contact with the girl, shrank.

He felt as if his soul were shrinking, and very soon there would be nothing left at all.

He could picture the talk, the excitement, the questions, the speculations, the dark looks and shaking heads, and his soul shrank from it.

"My shrunken soul, if I still have any soul at all, shrinks even further at the thought of it."