...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 manners of the rabbit, one wouldimagine, must be exceedingly "upsetting" to birdsof so timorous a disposition...
W. H. Hudson 「Birds and Man」
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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」
...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」
...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」
...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」
... drew back from the window like a startled fawn; timorous, yetcurious, too, for she ran only a few steps, then turned and stoodpeering...
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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