All 3 Uses of
timorous
in
Doctor Zhivago
- Kubarikha half sang and half recited: "As a hare was running about the wide world, About the wide world, over the white snow, He ran, the lop-eared hare, past a rowan tree, Past a rowan tree, and complained to it: Have I not, he said, a timorous heart, A timorous heart, so faint and weak?†
Chpt 2.12
- Kubarikha half sang and half recited: "As a hare was running about the wide world, About the wide world, over the white snow, He ran, the lop-eared hare, past a rowan tree, Past a rowan tree, and complained to it: Have I not, he said, a timorous heart, A timorous heart, so faint and weak?†
Chpt 2.12
- And seemingly near yet unseen until then,
Its light more timorous than that of a tallow-dip
Set in the window of some watchman's hut,
A star glimmered over the road to Bethlehem.†Chpt 2.17 *
Definition:
timid (fearful) or shy