I was foolish enough to think that I had them all," he confessed with a sheepish grin.
To tell the truth, I felt a little sheepish about mentioning the doubloons to him, for I rather expected him to laugh.
Jim felt sheepish because he had been to no war and Strathdene felt sheepish because Jim was so much taller than he.
Strathdene was also sheepish because Jim said, very simply: "Do you know my wife?
He comes down with a sheepish air, at length, and informs us that his wife won't let him go.
I see the bashful girls and the sheepish swains come slyly up to the side of the wagon, and exchange their hard-earned francs for the hopeful preparation.
It was a smile a little sheepish too, as he thought of Sheila's quiet vigilance.
One was very fat and jovial, and one was thin and harassed-looking, and a third wore a sheepish smile and walked with a slightly unsteady gait.
The boys were sheepish at first and slow to come on, and when they had assembled in force they were inclined to be bullying.
Miss Eleanor is ill, and missus is with her," replied the girl who looked awkward and rather sheepishat her questioner.
The two parted with another pressure of the hand, and it must be confessed that the old man looked a little bit sheepish when his wife hoped he had been giving Fred good advice.
The bachelor acknowledged defeat by a sheepish smile, and turned again to the child.
I only thought of the sheepish look of amazement Godfrey's face would wear, and that tickled me so much that I was mad enough to play the trick.
On hearing this Fred Triddelfitz, clever, quick-witted Fred Triddelfitz stood staring at the old man with the most sheepish expression in the world.
By-and-by, he brought it to the carriage, shading it with his hat; with a sheepish air he prayed the ladies to make use of it.
Though sheepish looking, he was a man of still, timid cunning that did not endear him to Melville.
A queer, strong smell of drugs was in the air, and near the kitchen door my father was standing with a frightened and sheepish look on his face, as if he had been thrust suddenly into a prominence from which he shrank back abashed.
My father shook his head, while a stubborn expression settled on his sheepish features.
He was taller than my father now, with the same kind, sheepish face, and the awkward movements as of an overgrown boy.
Twenty years ago I had last seen him, and though he was rougher and older and greyer now, he had the same honest blue eyes and the same kind, sheepish face.
At this moment Sylvia Tarrant, followed by a slightlysheepish brother, came down the steps.
Many a confident angler had come to the lake, absolutely certain of his ability to land the big fellow, only to return, sheepish and crestfallen, to acknowledge his defeat.
He had been caught "red-handed," and with a sheepish glance at his laughing comrades, he started on his lonely run around the course while they stood and watched him.
So the dungeon-door was unbolted, and the Cardinals came forth, sheepish and crestfallen.
That is true, St. Peter," replied Roger with a sheepish air.
Don't show so humbled, boys," said the deputy foreman to his most sheepish crew.
The father once more grinned at his guests, who themselves turned sheepish and polite; for Mrs. Westfall came in, brisk and hearty, and set the meat upon the table.
The male portion of the assembly viewed this form of emphasizing good-bye with sheepish amazement.
I did so as well as I could, and when the time came for me to resume my duties and close the book, he said in a very sheepish way, "I wish I could read and write; I would make a fortune if I could.
The Freak was certainly playing his part as though he enjoyed it, but the other celebrities, who stood conversing in a sheepish undertone in various corners, looked too like stage conspirators to be entirely convincing.
Upon the sofa in front of the hall-fire, self-consciously perusing a Sunday newspaper, sat a large man of slightly sheepish appearance.
You must be Gladys," I said, wondering if I looked as sheepish as I felt.
At eight we retired to our rooms with sinking hearts; at eight-thirty a group of sheepish men loitered at the stair-head, waiting for one less self-conscious than the rest to give a lead to the others.
Judd's suspicious looks vanished and a sheepish grin spread over his face.
His face wore a sheepish look but he offered no apology for his conduct.
But she was seeing him distinctly, and so ludicrous a figure of shy and sheepish contrition was he making that she with difficulty restrained her laughter.
On each of its four sides it put in sheepish and chop-fallen countenance a row of boarding houses.
The rabbit lay kicking with its hinder legs, and Wolf seeing the motion in the grass, dashed up, but instantly made the snap with his jaws, dropped his stern and came back with a sheepish look, as if to tell me I had done wrong.
The dog obeyed the sign, but no sooner had he entered the laurels, than he made a sort of snap with his jaws, a thing he always did when he was not pleased, and returned to my heels with rather a sheepish look.
We are a pair of landlubbers," announced Dan Davis, with a sheepish grin.
