All 6 Uses of
timorous
in
Arrowsmith
- When he arrived at the Armory, with Leora timorously brave in a blue crepe de chine made in no recognized style, he did not care whether he had a single two-step, though he did achingly desire to have the men crowd in and ask Leora, admire her and make her welcome.†
Chpt 7 *
- He beheld it so clearly that he had to spring from bed and look timorously out, and when in the street below he did actually see a man standing still, he was cold with panic.†
Chpt 28
- They did take his working hours, they did scratch his belief that he was hard-hearted, but they implored him with such wretched timorousness that he could not get rid of them without making promises, and admitting afterward that to have been more cruel would have been less cruel.†
Chpt 30
- She so warmly and modestly assured Ross McGurk of the merits of Gottlieb and of her timorous devotion to him, she so purred to the flattery of Rippleton Holabird, she so blandly answered the hoarse hostility of Terry Wickett by keeping him from getting materials for his work, that the Institute reeled with intrigue.†
Chpt 30
- About their arrival there was something timorous and illicit.†
Chpt 33
- He was spoiled, and Joyce was not timorous about telling him so.†
Chpt 37
Definition:
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(timorous) timid (fearful) or shy