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For the first few visits their soft black eyes, with their amber rims, had followed him timorously, and they were ready to run at any unusual movement.— The Man from the Bitter Roots
She well knew what to expect, and when the man reached the top of the mesa he found his party packed and mounted, waiting fearsomely to take the trail Silently, timorously, they rode behind him, west across the great wide plain In the distance gradually there appeared dim mesas like great fingers stretching out against the sky; miles away they seemed, and nothing intervening but a stretch of varying color where sage-brush melted into sand, and sage-brush and greasewood grew again, with tall cactus startling here and there like bayonets at rest but bristling with menace The Indian had grown silent and sullen.— A Voice in the Wilderness
He ran down each column of "display ads" of The World of Spirit_, timorously, almost expecting to see a notice of "the marvellous psychic Miss Viola Lambert, the mountain seeress"--and so on On deeper thought he found these papers shrewdly contrived to take human beings at their weakest point, their most unguarded moment; they had the boldness of the juggler who knows the blind spot in the eyes of his spectators.— The Tyranny of the Dark
His grandfather would not consent to his being sent for, although it was plain to be seen that he lived only for the young man's return Anne had once suggested, timorously, that Braden's place was at the sufferer's bedside, but the smile that the old man bestowed upon her was so significant, so full of understanding, that she shrank within herself and said no more.— From the Housetops
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