...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」
...The men of the cuadrilla grew serious, thinking with timorous gravityof the scapularies and medallions feminine hands had sewed to theirfighting garments before they left Seville...
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez Frances Douglas 「The Blood of the Arena」
...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」
...Not understandingthe Law, he had set down the older collie's refusal tofight as a sign of exemplary, if timorous prudence,and he looked down upon him accordingly...
Albert Payson Terhune 「Lad: A Dog」
...Some cats are of avery timorous nature, and are thus easily dismayed...
Harrison Weir 「Our Cats and All About Them」
...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」
...They knewsomething of the timorous hearts of sheep, and had littleexpectation of resistance...
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」
...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)」
...Buthis was no timorous nature—"a small craft, 'tis true," he saidlaughingly, "but mine own...
Louis Becke 「The Naval Pioneers of Australia and Walter Jeffery」
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