1 Melanie, however, did not seem to mind the smells, the wounds or the nakedness, which Scarlett thought strange in one who was the most timorous and modest of women.
2 She crept back to her room, a small timorous figure in white.
3 Carol had hidden in none of these refuges from reality, but she, who was tender and merry, had been made timorous by Gopher Prairie.
4 But if there happen to be an unduly slender, clumsy, or timorous wight in the ship, that wight is certain to be made a ship-keeper.
5 He waited in timorous silence to hear what Heron might say next.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 2 6 The workmen's discussions, he said, were too timorous; the interest they took in the question of wages was inordinate.
7 I looked with timorous joy towards a stately house: I saw a blackened ruin.
8 'She had been summat timorous and down,' said Mr. Peggotty, and had sat, at first, a little way off, at her spinning, or such work as it was, when Em'ly talked to the children.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 51. THE BEGINNING OF A LONGER JOURNEY 9 Every moment will see her growing timorous and confused lest she be saying too much.
10 Prissy climbed reluctantly from the wagon with many groans and timorously followed Scarlett up the avenue.
11 Uncle Peter feared him only a little less than the devil or the Ku Klux and even Mammy walked silently and timorously around him.
12 Darya Alexandrovna whispered timorously.
13 Brittles obeyed; the group, peeping timorously over each other's shoulders, beheld no more formidable object than poor little Oliver Twist, speechless and exhausted, who raised his heavy eyes, and mutely solicited their compassion.
14 Anna Sergyevna gave him some drink, not taking off her glove, and drawing her breath timorously.