She looked at me again with those timid eyes of hers.
He came with a slouch, a bent back, and humble, timid eyes--a very different attitude from that which he had last adopted towards me.
She gave me a little fluttering, timid glance, and looked away again.
Once safe on dry land, the great beast turned and glanced back with a timid air to see what manner of being it was that had so astoundingly assailed him.
On ordinary occasions the girl was as timid as her small, pale face and gentle blue eyes made her look.
Casting a timid glance around to see if anybody were watching him, he tottered across the yard.
Then, with a more timid voice and air, De Courcy said, 'I would have told you then what dear presumptuous hopes your anxiety awakened, but that I feared to extort from your agitation what perhaps a cooler moment might refuse me.
Wait till the paroxysms be past, and the timid hare is not more the slave of fear.
This was the first time that Laura had ever appeared to her lover, other than the tender, the timid girl.
Added to this, if the class be numerous, it is impossible to put a sufficient number of questions to each individual; and the bold and confident, will ever exhibit a manifest advantage over the timid and retiring.
With inimitable grace he swung the child from his shoulder, tossed it to a timid squaw watching like a hawk, and, shaking back his curls, came forward.
He stretched out a timid hand and touched her sleeve.
Bessie was neither timid nor grievous, but she was desperately wide-awake.
She had anticipated a much more timid habit in this young lady, whom she had undertaken to manage and mould to the will of her grandfather.
Somebody to succor was quite in Bessie's way; helpless, timid things felt safe under covert of her wing.
Janey had heard from her husband all the story of Bessie's faithful love, but she was too timid and self-doubting to be very cordial or responsive.
Sigel's dilatory and timid advance consumed the morning hours until, with Longstreet's arrival, the chance of attacking Jackson's right was lost.
Who could be, to look into the little innocent faces clustered in timid helplessness round those great gates that open down into the world?
Surrounded by those who resorted there for a lounge, it was a matter of no common difficulty for her, a young and timid girl, to assert her own position, and exact the respect that was her due.
So timid and shy are the natives that several were descried actually taking to the hill on our appearance.
Even the wild-bred horses and ponies of the marisma revert to an aboriginal anthropophobia, and become as shy and timid as the ferae naturae themselves.
For deer do not act on timid impulse, but on practical instinct.
And Kelvin's stream, where fishes glide, And timidfowl their plumage lave, Where drooping willows by its side, Their graceful branches gently wave.
The more conservative and timid section of the party advocated the nomination of Judge McLean of the Supreme Court, who for many years had enjoyed a shadowy mention for the Presidency in Whig journals of a certain type.
He had preached the doctrine of an "irrepressible conflict" between the forces of slavery and the forces of freedom, and timid men dreaded such a trial as his nomination would presage.
The latter was outspoken for the annexation of Texas, and the former, with a few timid qualifications, declared that he would be glad to see Texas annexed.
Bolton, a very successful and bold operator in cotton, though in appearance the most shy and timid of men was another well-known figure; he rarely made his appearance until late in the day, being credited with a love of turning night into day.
On merchant vessels they had become a nuisance, as the sailors often made them an opportunity for levying black mail on timid and nervous passengers.
The writer saw in 1867 a light bridge, which spanned the street, and was intended for the use of ladies and timid pedestrians.
These towering halls, these broad-curved stairways, these lofty chambers, even the great kitchens and their clustering offices, are to this timid group as wide and desolate as deserts or the sea.
The lean, black cat, timid but trustful, rubbed against my skirt and mewed.
She rolls her eyes like a timid kitten, and then all at once tamed, nestles against me, with a coaxing air of childishness, which is a delightfully transparent assumption.
Yves is astonished at her modest attitude, at her little timid airs of a young girl on the verge of matrimony; he had imagined nothing like it in such a marriage as this, nor I either, I must confess.
But walking beside me in the twilight of the hall, Iolanthe said very softly, with a sort of timid grief: "I know you don't want to come again.
If once you make a timid attempt to defend yourself, then they say, "Why I thought you were a good fellow!
To be sure, little of a man is he also, that timid night-reveller.
It is not the peaceful Hindu at his loom, it is not the timid Esquimaux in his canoe, whom we must expect to glow at the war song of Tyrtaeus.
He drew, indeed, against his prince, the formidable sword of Douglas, but with a timid and hesitating hand.
Oliver cast a regretful, lingering look behind him, rubbed his shins, and then stole a timid glance towards Randal's severe and moody countenance.
But to think that wild boy, so full of whim and life and spirit, should become staid enough for a guardian to that dear little child, with her timid eyes and pulsatilla sensibilities.
All within this house, until Harley's arrival, had been strange and saddening to Helen's timid and subdued spirits.
He was no longer the timid boy who had shrunk from the frown of Mr. Stirn, nor that rude personation of simple physical strength, roused to undisciplined bravery, which had received its downfall on the village green of Hazeldean.
But the firmness of the majority imposed silence on this timid council.
The cold and timidpolicy of the Austrian Cabinet afforded no asylum to the Comte de Provence, and he was obliged to pass through Germany; yet, as Louis XVIII.
As for me, I would rather never fire a gun in my life than alarm this timid population.
Illustration] If the armament of the vessel was small enough to calm the timid souls, on the other hand, the magazine was filled with enough powder to inspire some uneasiness.
They are timid fellows, Doctor; what a bird can't do, a man ought to try!
Telecommuting is a timid beginning and a pale image of what such strategies might be.
