half-timid

"Throg said you wanted me," she said in a half-timid tone.

"The Morons" by Harl Vincent, part 5 Johnny Pez 2010

That name, that trembling, questioning voice, the half-joyful, half-timid expression of her face, all these unmistakable signs of persistent love, pierced to my heart like arrows.

The Diary of a Superfluous Man and other stories 2006

If in the four years and more of marriage Clemens had made advancement in culture and capabilities, Olivia Clemens also had become something more than the half-timid, inexperienced girl he had first known.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

There he left her, with a nice old motherly person, and bade her good-by with no expectation of ever beholding her again, despite the murmured thanks she gave him and the half-timid offer of her hand.

A Husband by Proxy Jack Steele

She turned her eyes to him questioningly; there was still a half-puzzled, half-timid expression in them.

Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden Charles Garvice

She had smiled down at him, then, shyly, and -- half-proud, half-timid -- had thought it was very wonderful.

I've Married Marjorie Margaret Widdemer 1931

Jim might merely answer her half-timid, half-confident

The Story of Julia Page Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

"I want one," said Nancy, and relapsed into half-timid, half-defiant silence.

DEVELOPMENT A NOVEL BY W. BRYHER WITH A PREFACE BY AMY LOWELL 1920

They were at the entrance to the ballroom now, through which they had come a few minutes before, and, pausing, she gave him a half - serious, half-timid glance.

The Ne'er-Do-Well Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

"Sit here beside me, Gonzaga," she said quietly, and he, scarce crediting his own good fortune that so much favour should be showered upon him, obeyed her in a half-timid fashion that was at odd variance with his late bold words.

Love-at-Arms Rafael Sabatini 1912