"cower from" is correct and usable in written English.
It is usually used to express fear or dread of a situation/person/etc. For example, "The chihuahua cower from the large German shepherd."
Liberals themselves cower from the term.
Football should tackle this disease, not cower from it on the basis of it falling under someone else's domain.
But, as with Jack Nicholson's stymied writer, you both want to sympathise with and cower from the increasingly crazed Amelia.
The queen refused to cower from the crowd and consolidated her popularity by insisting on walking freely among her subjects.
Rube Goldberg's spiritual heirs are those artists whose work is at once sober and ironic, who neither kowtow to nor cower from new technologies.
They deserve wider attention, although more form-filling by the many decent landlords out there achieves little when councils cower from dealing with the true crooks.
He is cowering from the public," said Mr Miliband.
Cowering from a challenge isn't in Wolf's disposition.
The Lara Croft who cowers from enemies begins to shout back at them and taunt them.
People cowered from contact with anyone who might carry the disease.
In besieged Zawiyah, the closest rebel-held city to Tripoli, trapped residents cowered from the onslaught on Tuesday.
