But Epeus is perhaps a ridiculous instance, excusing his bragging as an athlete by his confession of timidity and want of manliness.
However we must avoid too much timidity and fear of censure, since many have played the coward, and abandoned noble ventures, more from fear of a bad name than of the dangers to be undergone, not being able to bear a bad reputation.
His timidity had diminished and he would readily come to the experimenter for food, although still he was somewhat distrustful at times and became timid when anything unusual occurred in the apparatus.
This well indicates his sensitiveness to his surroundings, and his inclination to timidity or nervousness even in the presence of conditions not in themselves startling.
Even Schiller's patience could not brook this; his natural timidity gave place to indignation; he threw the paper of exercises at the feet of the messenger, and said sternly that "here he would choose his own studies.
They were still silent; they could not really tell; they only knew that a certain sense of timidity and awe was always upon them in their mother's presence, that they never dared to laugh too loudly or ask a question twice before her.
But he had the moral timidity of proud, reticent, and sensitive natures: he dreaded her irony and her indifference.
Nadège,' he began with an impetuosity which yet had a certaintimidity in it.
Meade was fully alive to the importance of doing this, but he displayed some timidity peculiar to his nature, and sought to have all the conditions in his favor before risking another battle.
Hill, through timidity or inexperience, permitted the broken Confederate troops to pass him unmolested at Red House, where, as ordered, he should have concentrated a superior force.
A touch of timidity mingled with the challenge which her eyes still directed at him.
She knew it; the timidity of her beseeching eyes told that she asked a great thing--a thing that must be taken on faith, and must try his faith.
It shows in such cases something of the timidity and prudery of people who are themselves not entirely proof against criticism, and are consequently much afraid of the noscitur a sociis test being applied to them.
Gulping down the timidity that still troubled him, he climbed to the quarter-deck, and went forward through the broken doorway into the main cabin.
Whatever the timidity of the maroons in captivity, there was no doubt about their courage when fighting for their lives against odds.
And the struggle gave her a curious sort of timidity and uncertainty of manner which was not perhaps without its charm, but made it difficult to understand her, even for those who cared to exercise any observation and discrimination.
For in Charlotte's eyes, as Claudia at least had seen them, there was none of the softness which kindliness gave to Mr Waldron's, and anxious timidity at this moment to those of his little son.
They felt their own growing power, and gloried in their strength and arrogance; and Northern timidity became a scoff and by-word in their mouths.
Somehow Miss Darry's confession of a little feminine timidity put me more at ease with her than I had ever been before.
Why, then, should she show timidityand shyness at this meeting with him?
The pleasure I anticipated from the capture must have been excessive to overcome my timiditywhen I heard the first leaps of my savage visitors.
He poised it in his hand, and looked at it with mingled feelings of timidity and admiration.
And yet here was this man giving way to absurd and sentimental timidity about nothing at all.
Weakness and timidity and inexperience would fall from him in that magic moment.
In spite of timidity and shyness, every now and then something made her forget herself, and then the sunlight broke out; to be followed perhaps by a double cloud of gravity.
It was a very gently put question, but put with eyes and lips as well as the sweet voice, dainty in its half timidity mixed with the sweetness.
The slight air of timidity which sat with such grace upon her was not so very unusual; and that besides touched only or mainly one person.
Her timidity moved in a small circle, and touched principally him.
The answer came in that delicate voice of hers which timidity had shaken.
And then Mr Cheviott saw that her paleness was not that of timidity or ordinary agitation, but of intense, wrathful indignation, and he thereupon hardened his heart.
Would you like--might I," he went on, with a sort of timidity which made Mary smile inwardly at the idea of the unapproachable Mr Cheviott feeling any want of assurance in addressing her!
The first feeling of timidity that had seized her seemed to have left her utterly.
At once it seemed utterly different, giving an impression of bashfulness and timidity that contrasted with the boldness or the caution of the others.
It was as if, upon both of them, a timidity had come that made it hard for them to exchange thoughts.
Though this excessive timidity fully proves the ignorance and credulity of the men, it may also evince the state of alarm which prevailed in the country.
If you betray timidity or indecision, you convert them from that moment into insidious and dangerous enemies.
Everything looks very attractive, and yet I go forward with timidity to meet these unknown and known.
He would have spoken, but his timidityand the excitement of his mind confused his faculties.
A timidity acquired, perhaps, by a sudden trouble veiled the looks of the new rival who now disputed with all the palm of beauty; a lively carnation spread itself over her features, which had a faultless purity.
With all this, the sportsman who understands his game knows that there is a natural timidity in the elephant which often plays him tricks at the last moment.
Poor Timidity gave a shriek that made all the family jump again.
Especially in critical times, discipline, unity, and enthusiasm make headway against the deadly hatred of enemies and the deadlier apathy and timidity of the mass of mankind.
The fretfulness and timidity of Ruth, however, inflamed the wound greatly; and before the next day ended, they thought it prudent to disembark at some quiet spot, where she could have shelter and rest.
With something of timidity he said to Leila, "I am free for this afternoon; come and see again our old playgrounds.
He has the courage of the minute, but the timidity of the slave.
Now whenever these befal a man, he is in a servile state, and must own that he is overpowered: for whoever admits these feelings, must admit timidity and cowardice.
For timidityis generated by things, and not by words.
