reticent

• Now yours is--reticent, darling. —  Plays : Fourth Series
• My relations toward him echoed with the feelings I used to have for the reticent, omniscient boy of Abner's Court, and with the hoarse, studious young Talmudist with whom I would "famish in company." —  The Rise of David Levinsky
• He had been born reticent, and great, indeed, was the emotion under which he suffered when the whole of his eyes were visible. —  The Patrician
• Dick might naturally be reticent--but Cecily She did not even look towards the pear-tree, but turned and walked stiffly out of the gate. —  The Bell-Ringer of Angel's
• 'I know I'm that, Miss Cally Well, I didn't mean it that way,' s'I, reticent--an' said no more, with the exception of what I'd rilly meant Why under the canopy,' I ask' him, for a hint, 'don't you take the Sum Merriman store, an' run it, an' live on your feet? —  Friendship Village

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