Both Uses of
timorous
in
The War of the Worlds
- The curate, who was still timorous and restless, was now, oddly enough, for pushing on, and I was urging him to keep up his strength by eating when the thing happened that was to imprison us.†
Chpt 2.1
- 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.
Chpt 2.3 *timorous = timid
Definition:
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(timorous) timid (fearful) or shy