We found the same shyness amongst the natives here as at the last islands, but a few presents being given to them they at last ventured on board.
But Sis blushed all the same, and the blushes increased as she approached the house, until Woodward thought in his soul that her rosy shyness was the rarest manifestation of loveliness to be seen in all the wide world.
He recognised in her tone a certain shyness which seemed to appeal to him for protection, and he was profoundly stirred by it without at all understanding it.
He sees a group of children stopping in the midst of their play and looking at each other with scared faces--one little one suddenly hiding its face in its mother's apron, as if in the shrinking shyness and awe of apprehension.
And it was during those evening hours that Seagreave felt most the shyness which her constant presence induced in him.
She had seen men taken with this not inexplicable shyness before, and she made no effort to rouse Harry from his abstraction or to lure him from his meditations; femininely, intuitively wise, she left that to time.
He was suspected of poaching, both in game and fish, and a strong feeling of shyness grew up against him.
He expressed himself astounded at my not knowing; and he had very great shyness about telling me.
My sweetheart had much of the same shyness as was so pronounced in my own character.
One day, while playing with a girl of his own age, he succeeded in overcoming her shyness and induced her to expose herself, at the same time uncovering his own sexual parts.
She volunteered to strip naked and has but littleshyness with me.
I like it," responded Marcelle, slowly, with a certain dignified shyness that was characteristic of her.
Thank you for getting me out," she whispered, with a shyness absolutely new to the Kathleen of yore.
Her shyness wore off, and she let him draw out wonderful theories imbibed from her father about Universal Brotherhood, and the Rights of the People, and the New School of Poetry, and heaven knows what besides.
Children and women generally trusted the preacher, and she suddenly made up her mind to throw aside her shyness and talk to him.
The limit of her endurance had been reached, and shyness was extinguished by vexation.
Shyness and timidity were evidently not in the list of his failings.
The Rain fairy had gone back to the fountain while Merran was speaking, and by this time she had quite lost all feelings of shyness with the pretty Sunshine lady.
But for the moment his old invincible habit of shyness and sensitiveness forbade any responsive lightness of welcome, and he was merely formal, merely courteous.
Michael was seized with a fit of shyness at the idea of talking to Falbe about himself.
At first he had let himself do this much less often than he would have liked, for the shyness of years, his over-sensitive modesty at his own want of charm and lightness, was a self-erected barrier in his way.
Bessie was delighted, and was not withheld by any foolish shyness from proclaiming that her mind was set on his winning his election.
But the visible effect was that her original shyness seemed to have returned with more than her original pride, and she blushed vividly when Mr. Cecil Burleigh made her a low bow of compliment on her beautiful appearance.
The squire was pleased that she manifested none of the stupid shyness of new young-ladyhood, though in the presence of one of the most formidable of county magnates.
Shyness seized her, a shyness that bordered on panic.
Bending down he dropped a light kiss on the curly golden hair, and went away, happy in the knowledge of Patty’s love, and almost amused at what he thought was hershyness in acknowledging it.
The occasion brought a look of shyness to her face, which was as becoming as it was unusual.
In spite of the reserve which still betrayed his shyness of character, I found conversation with my young friend always pleasant and enlivening.
A rendering of his Hebrides Overture would have placed him so immeasurably above my two operatic airs, that all shyness at having to stand beside him would have been spared me, as the gulf between our two productions was impassable.
It was I suppose, because of my intense love of poetry, and that I felt so perfectly in my native element there, that my shyness always left me directly I had to read aloud or recite.
His father had sent him to Castle Osternau to learn agriculture upon a model estate, and in the hope of conquering his great natural shyness by a stay among strangers.
The shyness and the awkwardness which are wont to attack young men unused to society upon first meeting persons of rank were evidently unknown to Herr Gottlieb Pigglewitch.
It was, probably, at once a cause and an effect of the sensitive shyness that clung to her to the last.
The shyness passed with her childhood, but the sensitiveness and exclusiveness never quite left her.
Louisa, as a child, was afflicted with a sensitive, almost morbid shyness and reserve, and an incapacity for enjoying the society of other children whose tastes were uncongenial with her own.
The necessity of hard work, shyness and fastidiousness, bodily temperament, had all combined to keep him out of such things.
His shyness vanished; he gave humorous little sketches of his friends.
When he finished he was overcome with shyness by the applause, and for a moment forgot to turn and leave the platform.
Now that she was out of a crowd Elizabeth Ann felt all her shyness come down on her like a black cloud, drying up her mouth and turning her hands and feet cold as ice.
There is a curious touch of shyness about Violet this morning that is enchanting.
But there is a strange stir and tumult in the young wife's soul and a shyness comes over her; she feels her husband's eyes upon her, and they seem to go through every pulse.
An instinctive shyness would forbid her talking much under the eyes of strangers, if good breeding did not.
She often felt lonely at school, but her shyness prevented her from making advances, and so far nobody had offered her even the elements of friendship.
They are not for the many, but for the few, and only show their best to an occasional friend whose sympathy can overstep the wall of shyness that fences them round.
