timorous
Usage examples for timorous:
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And he was so friendly and simple and timorous and honest- eyed, and his features had such an extraordinary anxious expression that her own fear seemed to leave her.
"Hilda Lessways" – Arnold Bennett -
While the marvellous sight fell, or appeared to fall, upon my eyes, my blood, like Hamlet's, became so masterful that my reason seemed nothing but a blind and timorous guide.
"Aylwin" – Theodore Watts-Dunton -
For wickedness, condemned by her own witness, is very timorous and being pressed with conscience, always forecasteth grievous things.
"Donal Grant" – George MacDonald -
A man so timorous and so reticent as your uncle would allow no one to do this but himself.
"The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont" – Robert Barr