timid

• The more timid were allowed to disembark at old Plymouth. —  A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges
• Necessity stimulated the timid, and vengeance excited the bold. —  A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges
• Mr. Fox inquired Even the prairie dogs--timid as they were--ventured to jeer at Benny Badger and demanded whether he had gone crazy. —  The Tale of Benny Badger
• She was as delicate and high-strung and timid, as he was brown, big, and fearless as to anything, be it man or typhoon. —  The Blue Wall A Story of Strangeness and Struggle
• He was also marked by the strong regard and esteem which he had for his master and family; the stronger regard and esteem which he had for himself; and the easy, good-humoured way in which he regarded the remainder of the world at large as an inferior order of beings As for Peter, he has already been described as the timid clerk of humble origin, whose chief duties, while in London, were to wipe up ink and clear away debris_. —  Freaks on the Fells Three Months' Rustication

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