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- adjective Obsolete spelling of
shy .
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Examples
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Ai awlsoe ken ree-appeer ayt wil wenebber Ai wunts tu, butt bein shye, Ai moastlee stai iynbissible
opacity - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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De Conga-Ratz is dansin ober hear butt aye habbint gotten de pikture yet, dey iz shye.
Iz ask for halp… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Akshully, kamera-shye kitteh dint wunt hims pikshure taiken;
I taek ur pictur, dog says. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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There are no horses in this quarter which can with propriety be termed wild. there are some few which have been left by the indians at large for so great a length of time that they have become shye, but they all shew marks of having been in possession of man. such is that one which Capt.
Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904
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- There are no horses in this quarter which can with propriety be termed wild. there are some few which have been left by the indians at large for so great a length of time that they have become shye, but they all shew marks of having been in possession of man. such is that one which Capt.
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791
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Joseph feields who was also out a little above me saw several Elk and deer but killed none of them; they are very shye and the annual furn which is now dry and abundant in the bottoms makes so much nois in passing through it that it is extreemly difficult to get within reach of the game.
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791
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Attainments in Christianity are not ordinarily deny'd Baptism for themselves and theirs; Churches, which are shye of using any thing in the Worship of God, for which they cannot see a Warrant of God; but with whom yet the Names of _Congregational_, _Presbyterian_, _Episcopalian_, or _Antipædobaptist_, are swallowed up in that of _Christian_; Persons of all those Perswasions being taken into our Fellowship, when visible
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Only 'tis a most commendable Cautiousness, in those gracious Men, to be very shye lest the Devil get so far into our Faith, as that for the sake of many
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Here are great numbers of Turtle-doves, and huge store of fish, but withal, very shye to be caught.
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Kasoy na sinawsaw sa [ice cream] ... shye*! hahaha!
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