timorous

in a sentence

to confide in him - timorously  (source) Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace, 1996

Her voice was at once lusty and timorous.  (source) Alice Sebold, Lucky, 1999

She moved, I have been told, like a lovely colt when she thought herself unwatched; as timorously as a rabbit when she felt her husband's eye upon her.  (source) John Wyndham, The Chrysalids, 1955

But he was one of those weak creatures, void of pride, timorous, anaemic, hateful souls, full of shifty cunning, who face neither God nor man, who face not even themselves.  (source) H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, 1898

In his former position it had been pleasant to ... pass through the crowd of petitioners and officials who were timorously awaiting an audience with the governor, and who envied him as with free and easy gait he went straight into his chief's private room to...  (source) Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych, 1886

But we must betray Hepzibah's secret, and confess that the native timorousness of her character even now developed itself in a quick tremor, which, to her own perception, set each of her joints at variance with its fellows.†  (source) Nathanial Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables, 1851

I know only that my entire being seemed to run at blind full tilt into something monstrous and immobile, with a shocking impact too soon and too quick to be mere amazement and outrage at that black arresting and untimorous hand on my white woman's flesh.†  (source) William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!, 1936

He told her that for some time he had assisted at the meetings of an Irish Socialist Party where.... The workmen's discussions, he said, were too timorous;  (source) James Joyce, Dubliners, 1914

her mouth dropped open, her eyes stared wide and timorously, she was the picture of astonished curiosity touched with fear.  (source) Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, 1889

She walks tentatively, as if blind, but her eyes are wide open, fixed upon DuPont with the timorousness, the tremulousness, the pale and silent appeal, which Simon — he now realizes — has been hoping for in vain.†  (source) Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace, 1996

Not even birds can pass them by, not even the timorous doves that bear ambrosia to Father Zeus; caught by downdrafts, they die on rockwall smooth as ice.  (source) Homer, The Odyssey, -850 B.C.

...the group, peeping timorously over each other's shoulders, beheld no more formidable object than poor little Oliver Twist,  (source) Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, 1838

Babbitt tried to be jovial; he worked at it; but he could find nothing to interest him in Overbrook's timorousness, the blankness of the other guests, or the drained stupidity of Mrs. Overbrook, with her spectacles, drab skin, and tight-drawn hair.†  (source) Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt, 1922