Peredonov looked morosely at Sasha, who was timidly silent.
He pressed against the very wall in the shadow, and timidly waited.
He looked around timidly and whispered: "In every town there's a sergeant of the gendarmes in the secret service.
Peredonov glanced timidlyaround him and followed her into the dark passage.
Meanwhile Volodin and Prepolovenskaya sat timidly at the window in silence.
He saw that she was wiping her cheeks with her fingers; he walked up to her timidly and looked into her face--and the tears which were trickling down her cheeks weakened him into pity--and he felt no longer ashamed and angry.
A depressing silence filled the streets, and it seemed as if all these pitiful houses had sprung up to no purpose, as if these hopelessly decayed structures timidly hinted at the poor tedious life that lurked within their walls.
After the exercises Sasha timidly went to the Head-Master.
When Madam Bovary had gone, he tried timidly and in the same terms to hazard one or two of the more anodyne observations he had heard from his mamma.
If Charles timidly ventured a remark, she answered roughly that it wasn't her fault.
Mammy told me that you wanted me, papa," she said in a tremulous voice, and looking up timidly into his face.
As she murmurs these words a slight tremor possessed itself of her delicate figure, and piously and timidly she looks up into the illimitable, unfathomable eyes of the sphinx, that gaze out upon the whole world.
And yet, as he attempts to lay his head closer to her shoulder, she timidly recoils with an anxious look in her eyes.
The slave advanced timidly to the entrance of the kiosk, and announced the visitor to Sitta Nefysseh, who, awakening from a dream she had dreamed with open eyes, gently inclined her head.
Finally, he timidly asked for finger- rings and bracelets.
As a matter of fact some of them timidly adopted it more than once, almost always with success and invariably with impunity.
The rest divert themselves with the dwarfish satisfactions of recognized vice, the meagre routine of pleasure, or still more timidly with sport and games--those new unscheduled perversions of the soul.
The girl spoketimidly of the books she had read; he listened, blowing out dense clouds of tobacco smoke.
She was settling down so eagerly into this new life, so proud of her home and belongings, so timidly anxious to avoid any of those small lapses which kindled Strone's irritability.
It is like pain," she said, and she timidly laid a finger on his dark head, "this great joy.
Her husband was more reserved, yet he, too, was suffering from suppressed curiosity, and timidly and wistfully handled his pipe, that he longed to and yet did not dare to smoke.
Wiseli timidly answered, "It didn't matter, because I am not hungry.
She lookedtimidly from her dress to Mrs. Ritter as she entered.
At first, the people timidly stepped back, and looked on wonderingly.
She slowly raised her eyes and looked almosttimidly into his smiling face.
The travelling-coach, drawn by the six horses, rolled up to the door, and High-chamberlain von Schladen rapped timidly and begged leave to enter.
Regina knocked timidly at the door of the parsonage guest's chamber, and Mrs. Lindsay answered from within: "Come in?
His eyes fell beneath her timidly pleading gaze, and a deep flush of embarrassment passed over his face.
Here, for instance, came an emperor that timidly recorded his scruples--feebly protested, but gave way at once as to an ugly necessity.
She stood there, in the semi-darkness, in the middle of the room, timidly regarding her grandfather, and yet apparently afraid to speak.
The child timidlywithdrew her little hand from the stranger's, who seemed very disinclined to let it go, and hastened to her father's room.
The mastiffs when they beheld him slunk away, growling timidly and uneasily, and only began to bark with all their throats when they found themselves safely behind the house.
All who met her timidly shrunk aside, for, not infrequently, she would foretell the hours of their death, and cases were known in which her prophesies had come true.
Whenever Hiram deigned to look at him, he chattered softly, timidly approached, retreated, went through all his tricks, watching the while for some sign of approval.
Under all circumstances, he is thus restlessly, never timidly nervous.
Shrinking behind these curtains, which were drawn back at the head in gorgeous masses, Lady Rose looked timidly upon the form that lay prostrate there, afraid of the death signs which might be written upon it.
After a while she lifted her head, stole her arms timidly over that sleeping form, and dropped a kiss, light as the fall of a rose-leaf, on those parted lips.
After a little she crept close to him again, and timidly touched his hand.
She then timidly added, (and how beautiful in that timidity!
Lady Albina wept violently while she spoke, and giving her hand to Pembroke, timidly looked towards the house, and added, "You must take me this instant.
She smiled, and put her hand timidly on his shoulder.
Sometimes Augustina wouldtimidly introduce some subject of greater practical interest to the commonplace English Catholic.
The parsons and doctors begin timidlyto exchange wives.
At Tom Gate she gets out, and rather timidly entering the archway, bends her steps to the porter's lodge.
Lawrence came up and stood rather timidly at a little distance.
But when at last he appeared she put off the great moment until after dinner, and then when he was comfortably smoking a fragrant cigar she approached him timidly and placed the letter and the book in his lap without a word.
She walked timidly over the thick, yielding carpet and leant against the open window, breathing deeply of the fresh, pure air.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "timidly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
