"Timorousness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a great hurry, and proceeded to embrace her young guest tenderly, though with a little timorousness. The young lady submitted to the caress ...
— A Fair Barbarian • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... I had, till that age, preserved a perfect innocence, even of thought: whilst my fears of I did not now well know what, made me no more desirous of marrying than of dying. My aunt, good woman, favoured my timorousness, which she loooked on as childish affection, that her own experience might probably assure her would wear off in time, and gave my ...
— Memoirs Of Fanny Hill - A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) • John Cleland
... that if my manner has seemed to you a little curious to-night, you will not put it down to timorousness, or faintheartedness, or anything of that sort. I do feel very queer, I admit; not ill, you understand, but strange; a kind of—well, it's more than a presentiment; I might say it's an absolute certainty ...
— The Cruise of the "Esmeralda" • Harry Collingwood
... her chair in a great hurry, and proceeded to embrace her young guest tenderly, though with a little timorousness. The young lady submitted to the ...
— A Fair Barbarian • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... fell upon all. John Law, young, confident and arrogant in many ways as he was, none the less possessed sobriety and depth of thought, just as he possessed the external dignity to give it fitting vehicle. He gazed now at the men before him, not with timorousness or trepidation. His face was grave, and he returned their glances calmly as he rose and made the speech which, unknown to himself, was presently to prove so important ...
— The Mississippi Bubble • Emerson Hough |
