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1. The voice at the other end of the line was loud, deep, masculine, and very timorous
2. A timorous knock sounded on the door, and Kay nestled herself into the covers more thoroughly as Em called Alistair into the room
3. 11 For wickedness, condemned by her own witness, is very timorous, and being pressed with conscience, always forecasts grievous
4. “Is that water?” asked a timorous little
5. She watched him with timorous fascination
6. It was a political threat that might have brought a timorous leader like Chamberlain to the negotiating table but never a tenacious warrior such as Churchill
7. The sun did not beat upon her, rather it touched her like a timorous child might brush at a dog’s muzzle
8. Within the abyss there arose a timorous bubbling
9. "How deep is it?" he asked, timorous
10. timorous of highwaymen, and the prisoner has not a timorous air
11. But though Avdotya Romanovna shared her anxiety, and was not of timorous disposition, she could not see the glowing light in his eyes without wonder and almost alarm
12. hard-hearted animal, turn, I say, those timorous owl's eyes upon these of mine that are compared to radiant stars, and thou wilt see them weeping trickling streams and rills, and tracing furrows, tracks, and paths over the fair fields of my cheeks
13. "Alas, excellency," returned Bertuccio, joining his hands, and shaking his head in a manner that would have excited the count's laughter, had not thoughts of a superior interest occupied him, and rendered him attentive to the least revelation of this timorous conscience
14. When, however, the closing cadence had fallen on the ears of his auditors, the secret, timorous glances of the eyes, and the general and yet subdued movement of the assemblage, betrayed that something was expected from the father of the deceased
15. The workmen's discussions, he said, were too timorous; the interest they took in the question of wages was inordinate
16. one was Timorous, and of the other, Mistrust; to whom Christian said, Sirs, what's the matter? You run the wrong way
17. Timorous answered, that they were going to the City of Zion, and had got up that difficult place; but, said he, the further we go, the more danger we meet with; wherefore we turned, and are going back again
18. So Mistrust and Timorous ran down the hill, and Christian went on his way
19. 5:6,7] Now also he remembered the story that Mistrust and Timorous told him of; how they were frighted with the sight of the lions
20. It rendered him timorous for a moment before that enigmatic, lighted door
21. Doubtless some ancient Greek has observed that behind the big mask and the speaking-trumpet, there must always be our poor little eyes peeping as usual and our timorous lips more or less under anxious control
22. I looked with timorous joy towards a stately house: I
23. 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
24. 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
25. But if there happen to be an unduly slender, clumsy, or timorous wight in the ship, that wight is certain to be made a ship-keeper
26. ” An eye-witness tells us that on this occasion the lust for gold abolished all distinction between the bold and the timorous, between friend and foe, and that the Cossacks set to plundering side by side with the French!
27. And, you know, she wasn't always such a timorous, shy creature as she is now ; even now it happens that she will all at once grow gay, and look as pretty as a girl of twenty ; and in those days in her 5'^outh she was very fond of chattering and laughing, only with people she was at home with, with girls and women belonging to the household ; and how she started if I came on her unawares, if she were laughing, how she blushed, and how timorously she looked at me ! Once, not long before I went abroad, almost on the eve of my breaking ofif all relations with her, in fact, I went into her room and found her alone, at a little table, without any work in her hands, but deep in thought, resting her elbow on the table
28. And so in her anxiety and growing uneasiness Anna And^eye\^la was scarcely capable of entertaining the old man : his \mcasiness was growing to threatening proportions, he kept asking strange and timorous questions, he began looking suspiciously at her, and several times fell to weeping
29. He is a man of weak and timorous character; he has suffered so much and is very good-natured
30. Father Zossima had a great affection for this timorous man, and always treated him with marked respect, though perhaps there was no one he had known to whom he had said less, in spite of the fact that he had spent years wandering about holy Russia with him
31. The old man had sent for this giant, not because he was afraid of the “captain” (he was by no means of a timorous temper), but in order to have a witness in case of any emergency
32. I know now that he had only spent one evening in her company before the reading; he had not spoken all that evening, had listened with an equivocal smile to the jests and the general tone of the company surrounding Yulia Mihailovna, and had made an unpleasant impression on every one by his air of haughtiness, and at the same time almost timorous readiness to take offence
33. Other men in various parts of Russia behave, as though by agreement, precisely in the same way as this young man, and in all these cases the government has adopted the same timorous, undecided, and secretive course of action
34. It was Ashley’s voice that made this statement loud enough for all the room to hear, loud enough to penetrate even to Lord Grimsby’s ears; loud enough to force that timorous jurist back into a judicial calm
35. The timorous and light-shunning herd of spies and informers have too much instinct to pounce on such a prey