In the longest and shyest silence their hands had groped for each other once, met as if they had never touched before, and clung together for a minute as if they never meant to let go, but Judith kept firmly to impersonal subjects still.
It was flushed and human and warm, and in her eyes, opening grave and deep, was a look that was the shyest but surest of welcomes.
The guanaco is among the shyest of quadrupeds; and its capture would be difficult to any one unacquainted with its habits.
In order to trap very shy animals use no bait of any kind, but set your traps where they are sure to go and you can capture the shyest mink, says a Maine trapper.
When streams are open the shyest mink may be caught by putting several small live fish on a string and stretching the string in a V shaped enclosure, in shallow water, setting the trap at the open end.
It was known to all that the canvass-backs are among the shyestof water-fowl, so much so that it is difficult to approach them unless under cover.
He had heard that they were shyest at that very season--the beginning of winter--and indeed such is the case.
Who could have imagined that unobtrusive, submissive Fräulein, gentlest and shyest of women, would put herself forward in this aggressive manner.
This lack of fear through sharp hunger, that often drives the shyest of the birds to our very doors in winter, is as pathetic as it is charming.
The New England wild-flowers are especially dear to him, and he has all a poet's love for that shyest and most beautiful of all, the trailing arbutus.
He is the most modest and one of the shyest of men.
Indeed, few men have lived at any time who could color a landscape as Ruskin colors it, or who have so delicate an eye for the shyest and most sequestered beauties, as has this poet-painter.
But Matthew so rarely went from home that it must be something pressing and unusual which was taking him; he was the shyest man alive and hated to have to go among strangers or to any place where he might have to talk.
But they knew at the same time that it was one of the shyest of birds,--so shy that it is very difficult to get even a long shot at one.
As Barrie says: "Because we were the two shyest men in the world, we got on so well and understood each other so perfectly.
His walk was quick and nervous, with an energy in it that betokened decision of character, but ill sustained by the stammering speech; for in society he was the shyest and most undemonstrative of men.
Perhaps the shyest persons in the room were an old German shoemaker and his wife, whom Miss Muffet had for a long time loved and admired, though they had not known it.
But the swans are among the shyest of God's creatures.
He is among the shyest game I have ever hunted, and his position is usually so far above that of the hunter, that he commands at all times a view of the movements of the latter.
He was at heart one of the kindliest as well as one of the shyest and apparently most austere of men.
Suddenly he saw to his astonishment a chamois, the shyest of all animals, standing stock- still on a steep glacier.
And it is astonishing how little the shyest of them fears you, if you but keep silence and avoid all excitement, even of feeling; for they understand your feeling quite as much as your action.
No wonder that some of our shyest birds resort to them, especially as they present the additional attraction of abundance of food.
Sir Isaac Newton was probably the shyest man of his age.
Who could have believed that the late Charles Mathews, who entertained crowded houses night after night, was naturally one of the shyest of men?
Although we are not accustomed to think of modern Americans as shy, the most distinguished American author of our time was probably the shyest of men.
He would have something droll to say to everyone, and under his attentions the shyest child would brighten and become merry.
The Cougar is the most elusive, sneaking, adroit hider, and shyest thing in the woods.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shyest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
