Doubtless some ancient Greek has observed that behind the big mask and the speaking-trumpet, there must always be our poor little eyes peeping as usual and our timorous lips more or less under anxious control.
She stood in the doorway and looked at them, Cousin Georgiana timorous, expectant, behind her.
Mother hasalways had the idea that there was something a bitvulgar about having a baby,as if the best peopledidn't do it,whereas the"best people"are exactlythe ones who still have families of eight and ten,while the middle classes nowadays are gettingselfish and timorous and either have no children atall or else devote themselves to one spoiled baby.
He that cannot look into his own estate at all, had need both choose well, those whom he employeth, and change them often: for new are more timorous, and less subtle.
Now, no matter when and where, I try my best to be brave insteadof being craven and timorous.
com, March 2005 When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it.
On seeing the rapid disappearance of the Frogs, one of the Hares cried out to his companions: "Stay, my friends, do not do as you intended; for you now see that other creatures who yet live are more timorous than ourselves.
