bashful

• “He was roundly congratulated on having salvaged the ship, for in the days before he sailed, the Paragon became known as a bashful but courteous ship, given to few words but occasionally smiling so as to melt anyone's heart.”

  Ship Of Magic

• “To her father's disgust she bought them both, and presented them to two wide-eyed children who in bashful fascination were dogging their footsteps.”

  Jerry Junior

• “The others called the bashful, baby-faced Talib "The Doctor.”

  The Torch

• “Now over here, folks, we have a formation called the bashful elephant.”

  The Time of the Transference

• “But wisdom makes men bashful, which is the reason that those wise men have so little to do, unless it be with poverty, hunger, and chimney corners; that they live such neglected, unknown, and hated lives: whereas fools abound in money, have the chief commands in the commonwealth, and in a word, flourish every way.”

  In Praise of Folly

• “After supper that evening, Uncle Kit suggested that we visit the emigrant camp and see the ladies, which did not altogether meet with my approval, but rather than be called bashful, I went along with the crowd.”

  Thirty-One Years on the Plains and In the Mountains

• “Lord George professed that he had observed the same thing; but then, as he whispered into Mr. Nappie's ear, Mr. Greystock was particularly known as a bashful man.”

  The Eustace Diamonds

• “Hall was kind of bashful when he was offerin 'me work.”

  CHAPTER VIII

• “Ruth recently was praying for me, and felt that God used the word "bashful" in reference to me.”

  i am woman; hear me...what?

• “I guess she makes you kind of bashful the way she does me," from which David gathered with an odd sense of shock that Eleanor felt there was something to criticize in his conduct, if she had permitted herself to look for it.”

  Turn About Eleanor

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