That trait is an innate timorousness which masquerades as rebelliousness. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Later we take our longer strides, with secret timorousness, preferring a crowd of companions. From Wordnik.com. [Art and Literature] Reference
Maybe you think those expressions of timorousness are a bit of a pose, but I'm inclined to take him at his word here. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-02-01] Reference
Yet he confesses to a timorousness and nervousness whenever he is waiting on a public platform with a speech ahead of him. From Wordnik.com. [Lloyd George The Man and His Story] Reference
Indeed, he needed not to bid me; for I was sorry, on more accounts than that of my timorousness, to have lost sight of him. From Wordnik.com. [Pamela] Reference
We feel a reverence for this ground, so teeming with metallic wealth, -- and yet a certain timorousness, as we remember that we walk on. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861] Reference
Useful as Naitachal found the Paladin's attitude, he sometimes wanted to strangle the man out of sheer frustration at his timorousness. From Wordnik.com. [Fortress Of Frost And Fire]
Useful as Naitachal found the Paladin's atti - tude, he sometimes wanted to strangle the man out of sheer frustration at his timorousness. From Wordnik.com. [Fortress Of Frost And Fire]
Its main character is its incurable timorousness; it is forever grasping at straws held out by demagogues... its dreams are of banshees, hobgloblins, bugaboos. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Lenzner: Plutocracy;The Rich Elite And The Rest Of Us] Reference
And there is allowance to be made for natural timorousness, not only to women (of whom no such dangerous duty is expected), but also to men of feminine courage. From Wordnik.com. [Leviathan] Reference
And gumption is always welcome (whereas the timorousness of anonymity will be quashed -- c.f. the A-Z of the blog I can't be bothered linking to at the moment). From Wordnik.com. [Thoughts on Narnia] Reference
Her throat grew tight as she considered what courage it must have taken for the Xara girl to overcome her natural timorousness, especially in full view of Eketi. From Wordnik.com. [River Of Desire]
Yes, Maria certainly was different; and the miracle was that having been raised in a convent she had overcome her natural timorousness enough to return to the Xara at all. From Wordnik.com. [River Of Desire]
Several cases passed under my observation, in which the husband was unable to use his marital rights for weeks owing to the timorousness and bashfulness of his youthful spouse. From Wordnik.com. [The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir] Reference
Accordingly, he gave them notice to assemble by night in a particular house, where he met them without Metellus's knowledge and upbraided them for their timorousness and weakness. From Wordnik.com. [Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C. 69-44).] Reference
Amid such timorousness, a culture of grievance has flourished. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Neither her gayety nor her usual excess of timorousness returned. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Marston] Reference
His extraordinary freedom from timorousness was something to think over. From Wordnik.com. [My Robin] Reference
He gazed now at the men before him, not with timorousness or trepidation. From Wordnik.com. [The Mississippi Bubble] Reference
Besides, this well accords with the accursed timorousness that marked Cain. From Wordnik.com. [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference
A sweet timorousness enveloped her and something tingled -- she knew not what. From Wordnik.com. [Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3] Reference
He felt a sudden timorousness, like a child caught redhanded doing something wrong. From Wordnik.com. [The Torrent Entre Naranjos] Reference
The problem with Kerry's response to Swiftboat wasn't just its initial timorousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Next Right] Reference
One disagreement: He describes the S. E.C.'s timorousness in recent years as an attitude problem. From Wordnik.com. [CJR] Reference
Not until the latter had left the room did his features reveal the timorousness of the soul within. From Wordnik.com. [Deep Waters, the Entire Collection] Reference
But just in proportion as my first timorousness of the engine hardened into familiarity and self-sureness. From Wordnik.com. [The Purple Cloud] Reference
"Because they were forget-me-nots, or because they were MINE, Miss Barton?" he asked softly, all timorousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman Who Did] Reference
His natural timorousness of nature had indeed led him to put off making the visit for as long a time as possible. From Wordnik.com. [A Fair Barbarian] Reference
She left her chair in a great hurry, and proceeded to embrace her young guest tenderly, though with a little timorousness. From Wordnik.com. [A Fair Barbarian] Reference
Perhaps he is held back by the collegiate timorousness of his team, whose leadership strategy has always been a game of grandmother's footsteps. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph] Reference
A thoroughgoing skeptic, with no trace in him of the messianic delusion, he has avoided timorousness on the one hand and indignation on the other. From Wordnik.com. [Prejudices : first series,] Reference
There is no sign of doubt or timorousness anywhere in the work, though the moments are not infrequent when the utterance is more fluent than significant. From Wordnik.com. [Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time] Reference
"The Higher Learning in America"; he is one of its characteristic products, and he proves that he is thoroughly of it by the timorousness he shows in that book. From Wordnik.com. [Prejudices : first series,] Reference
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