例文・使い方で印象づける「timorous」の覚え方
スポンサーリンク...In the kitchen, too, she made her authority felt like a regular house-mistress, but the minute that she heard her husband’s voice she shrank into a respectful and timorous silence... 
Vicente Blasco Ibanez Charlotte Brewster Jordan 「The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse」
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The hyæna is of a timorous nature, seldom, if ever, showing fight...
Robert A. Sterndale 「Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon」
...The hyæna is of a timorous nature, seldom, if ever, showing fight...
Robert A. Sterndale 「Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon」
...Very soft, fluffyplumage muffles their flight so that they can drop upon a meadow mousecreeping through the grass in the stilly night before this wee, timorous beastie suspects there is a foe abroad...
Neltje Blanchan 「Birds Every Child Should Know」
...We said we were not afraid and we triednot to feel so, but after dark we all felt a little timorous...
Elinore Pruitt Stewart 「Letters on an Elk Hunt」
...They were both skilled riders, but Dick’s illness made him timorous at times...
George Manville Fenn 「Off to the Wilds」
...The little grey creaturewas one of the most timorous of the feeblefolk dwelling in the pleasant wilderness ofthe Valley of Olwen...
Alfred W. Rees 「Creatures of the Night」
...Towards the afternoon of the second day, he again made his appearance, accompanied with a new female, who seemed exceedingly timorous and shy, and after great hesitation entered the box...
Samuel Griswold Goodrich 「Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom」
...“Tothe discreet belong the spoils” was written in every timorous step andstealthy movement...
William J. Long 「Wood Folk at School」
...He was an adept in stalking this sweet-fleshed, timorous quarry, andbreaking its neck with a well-directed blow as it dashed past him in apanic...
Charles G. D. Roberts 「The Watchers of the Trails」
...Thereupon two members ofthat body, residing in the district of the timorous teacher, resigned...
Various 「The Journal of Negro History, Vol. I. Jan. 1916」
...There are some people who are afraid ofspiders, but the most timorous of mortals must findthe homely spider preferable to the loathsome blowfly...
A. F. R. Wollaston 「Pygmies and Papuans」
...It has too little body,its scheme is too timorous, too vaporous to be handled by another...
W. C. Brownell 「French Art」
...But the timorous smile remained, and hereyes, upraised to mine, glowed with misty starlight...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930」
...If weak or timorous, they wear the yoke during their whole life, and they grow old, trembling, or at least they live under burdensome uncertainty...
Jean Meslier Anna Knoop 「Superstition In All Ages (1732)」
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