"Sheepishness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... thing. The women are told how much their blushes heighten their graces: they practise for them therefore: blushes come as hastily when they call for them, as their tears: aye, that's it! While we men, taking blushes for a sign of guilt or sheepishness, are equally ...
— Clarissa, Volume 5 (of 9) • Samuel Richardson
... your demeanour that you consider her a slave, and she will become your pariah. But above all things —excuse me if I repeat myself too often —beware of the fatal virtue which men call modesty and women sheepishness. Recollect the trouble it has given us, and the danger which we have incurred: all this might have been managed at a tank within fifteen miles of your royal father's palace. And allow me to say that you may still ...
— Vikram and the Vampire • Sir Richard F. Burton
... said Jack, with an expression of face that was as near an approximation to what is called sheepishness as any ...
— The Lady of the Ice - A Novel • James De Mille
... choose another. A master-singer he must be. Only one crowned by yourselves may become a suitor for her." The arrangement does seem, closely considered, rather hard on the young lady, and one fancies more than once, in the course of the play, a shade of sheepishness in the father's own attitude toward it,—momentary ripples ...
— The Wagnerian Romances • Gertrude Hall
... prisoner had escaped! Had he not been seen by every imaginative member of the guard? But when they discovered that we were all safe and sound, and that we were perfectly composed, they presented a sorry array of stalwart warders. Their sheepishness provoked us to laughter when we learned the true reason for all the bother. But it brought home to us the extreme danger of falling foul of ...
— Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons - Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben • Henry Charles Mahoney
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