1 Beth was too bashful to go to school.
2 "It's so hard I'm afraid to try," said Meg, grateful, but bashful in the presence of the accomplished young lady beside her.
3 He patted her back soothingly, and finding that she was recovering, followed it up by a bashful kiss or two, which brought Jo round at once.
4 Tommy is poor and bashful and good and very clever.
5 I am to have my meals with the children, if I prefer it to the great table, and for the present I do, for I am bashful, though no one will believe it.
6 He could not get any further, for he too turned bashful all of a sudden, and did not quite know what to say.
7 She looked down as she said this, amiably bashful, with only one side glance at her companion to observe its effect on her.
8 The little fellow, who was holding her apron, gave such a lusty shout, that the sound of it made him bashful, and he buried his face in her skirts, to her great admiration.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 21. LITTLE EM'LY 9 But the garter was so bashful, so modest, and thought it was a strange question to answer.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE FALSE COLLAR 10 But we've all heard what a studious young man you've got to be, and I felt bashful.
11 Bagration called to him, and Tushin, raising three fingers to his cap with a bashful and awkward gesture not at all like a military salute but like a priest's benediction, approached the general.
12 Laurie's bashfulness soon wore off, for Jo's gentlemanly demeanor amused and set him at his ease, and Jo was her merry self again, because her dress was forgotten and nobody lifted their eyebrows at her.
13 It so happened that Beth's funny loan was just the thing, for in laughing over the kits, Laurie forgot his bashfulness, and grew sociable at once.
14 Poor Laurie didn't know where to look, for, man though he was, something of the old bashfulness came over him as this burst of praise made all faces turn approvingly upon him.
15 She withdrew her veil, and looked on them with a countenance in which bashfulness contended with dignity.