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1. There were a good many people, too, upon this occasion, who, from a diffidence of repayment, did not bring their silver into the Bank of Scotland; and there was, besides, some English coin, which was not called in
2. Their blind, mindless self-absorption and natural diffidence ensured that they prefer not to ask too many questions
3. She glanced with diffidence at the ground
4. As Officer Mohammad Amin observed the inspector’s diffidence, he became convinced that not only was the man not a specialist in military affairs, but was, in fact, an absolute stranger to military displays
5. Such high intention and elevated purpose is not considered as disobedience, nor does it entail shame or diffidence specially when associating with that first spiritual state which necessitates forgetting
6. His aim was to cause them shame and diffidence before God, by disobeying His advice, in order to achieve his purpose of creating a distance between them and God
7. I give this opinion with diffidence
8. I would advise the intending tourist to use Sassnitz only as a place to make excursions to from Binz on one side or Stubbenkammer on the other; though, aware of my peculiarities, I advise it with diffidence
9. And that has made all the diffidence
10. His diffidence and decency touched her in the face of the general brashness and baseness of the world and his passion and sexual avidity for her excited her because unlike her other casual affairs this one was saturated with genuine feeling and love
11. He spoke with the diffidence of a man who knew how slight a thing would overset the delicate organisation of the mind, and yet with the confidence of a man who had slowly won his assurance out of personal endurance and distress
12. Jemima entering, he reflected on his diffidence with poignant regret, and, she
13. timidity, love-sick yearnings tempered with diffidence and modesty, all
14. A hundred youths, who had hitherto been restrained by the diffidence of their years, rushed in a frantic body on the fancied emblem of their enemy, and severed it asunder, splinter by splinter, until nothing remained of the trunk but its roots in the earth
15. Gabriel waited again and then, fearing that diffidence was about to conquer him, he said abruptly:
16. {284} Now, Giant Despair had a wife, and her name was Diffidence
17. Diffidence and her husband, the Giant, were got to bed, they began to renew their discourse of their prisoners; and withal the old Giant wondered, that he could neither by his blows nor his counsel bring them to an end
18. But now the true refining passion had regained throughout possession of me, with all its train of symptoms: a sweet sensibility, a tender timidity, love-sick yearnings tempered with diffidence and modesty, all held me in a subjection of soul, incomparably dearer to me than the liberty of heart which I had been long, too long! the mistress of, in the course of those grosser gallantries, the consciousness of which now made me sigh with a virtuous confusion and regret
19. He was not generally popular among the undergraduates, though it always seemed to me that what was set down as pride was really an attempt to cover extreme natural diffidence
20. “’Scuse me, Your Grace,” a voice said … with rather more diffidence than it usually used addressing Eastshare
21. He suspected that William enjoyed his diffidence, his potential corruptibility, his unease with his own instincts
22. "You are very good," said Ladislaw, beginning to lose his diffidence in the interest with which he was observing the signs of weeping which had altered her face
23. These men, though enchanted with the sovereign for refusing the command of the army, yet blamed him for such excessive modesty, and only desired and insisted that their adored sovereign should abandon his diffidence and openly announce that he would place himself at the head of the army, gather round him a commander in chief’s staff, and, consulting experienced theoreticians and practical men where necessary, would himself lead the troops, whose spirits would thereby be raised to the highest pitch
24. There was an unceremonious directness, a searching, decided steadfastness in his gaze now, which told that intention, and not diffidence, had hitherto kept it averted from the stranger
25. him, as he looked at me, openly and without diffidence,
26. Without any display of doing more than the rest, or any fear of doing too much, he was always true to her interests, and considerate of her feelings, trying to make her good qualities understood, and to conquer the diffidence which prevented their being more apparent; giving her advice, consolation, and encouragement
27. Yates, without discernment to catch Sir Thomas’s meaning, or diffidence, or delicacy, or discretion enough to allow him to lead the discourse while he mingled among the others with the least obtrusiveness himself, would keep him on the topic of the theatre, would torment him with questions and remarks relative to it, and finally would make him hear the whole history of his disappointment at Ecclesford
28. Yates, without discernment to catch Sir Thomas's meaning, or diffidence, or delicacy, or discretion enough to allow him to lead the discourse while he mingled among the others with the least obtrusiveness himself, would keep him on the topic of the theatre, would torment him with questions and remarks relative to it, and finally would make him hear the whole history of his disappointment at Ecclesford
29. Her diffidence, gratitude, and softness made every expression of indifference seem almost an effort of self-denial; seem, at least, to be giving nearly as much pain to herself as to him
30. He gave his opinions sometimes too conceitedly, and showed no trace of diffidence with her, becoming more and more free in his manner as time went on, which she ascribed to his imconsciously feeUng less and less respect for her position
31. Speaker, not having been in the habit of public speaking, it is with great diffidence I rise, to make any observations on the resolutions now under consideration, after so much has been said upon the subject
32. President: At all times embarrassed when I have ventured to address you, it is with peculiar diffidence I rise on this occasion
33. I now, with diffidence, transmit to you the result of my inquiries
34. Speaker, I rise to address you, on this occasion, with no affected diffidence, and with many doubts concerning the expediency of taking any part in this debate
35. The following is the substance of the whole of his remarks: He said, on rising, that it was with no feigned diffidence that he addressed the House
36. With diffidence, therefore, do I refer to the efficiency of twelve ships-of-the-line and twenty frigates, as demonstrated last session
37. Speaker: It is with great diffidence that I address the Chair