All 5 Uses of
timorous
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- When the sheep had been penned up, in the darkness the timorous wolves crept into the living-room, squealing, halting, thrown out of their habit of stolidity by the strangeness of advancing through nothingness toward a waiting foe, a mysterious foe which expanded and grew more menacing.†
Chpt 6 *
- A virginal sweetness and timorousness—no flare of gaiety, no suggestion of cities, music, quick laughter.†
Chpt 29
- She crept back to her room, a small timorous figure in white.†
Chpt 30
- She was not timorous now.†
Chpt 36
- Carol had hidden in none of these refuges from reality, but she, who was tender and merry, had been made timorous by Gopher Prairie.†
Chpt 37
Definition:
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(timorous) timid (fearful) or shy