timidest

Always the timidest who find the deadest, Hayward remembered her former professor of forensic psychology at NYU joking.

Dance Of Death Preston, Douglas 2005

When you are not the timidest, you are the bravest of creatures.

Journey to the Interior of the Earth 2003

Marion Jordan! the gentlest, timidest, most typical of young English girls!

The Daughters of Danaus Mona Caird

He moved alertly; the poise of his head was sanguine; the sun shone on him; the timidest soul came nearer to him.

The Imperialist Sara Jeannette Duncan

My eyes were always the timidest things about me: and to shut my eyes tight against the dark was the only way I had of meeting the solitude of the first hour of bed when Nan-nan had left me, and before I could get to sleep.

An Englishwoman's Love-Letters Anonymous

And even the timidest of the sheep began to cast eyes across at the goats.

Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day Various

{208} What then is the reason, why the most offensive men in the city, the men with the loudest voices, are so cowed before me, the timidest of men, whose voice is no louder than any other?

The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 1 384 BC-322 BC Demosthenes 1912

It is said that outside the field of battle he was one of the timidest of men, and even submitted quite tamely to the insolence of his own servants.

Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 2 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History 1906

The vast, profound thought that brings with it nothing but sadness is energy burning its wings in the darkness to throw light on the walls of its prison; but the timidest thought of hope, or of cheerful acceptance of inevitable law, in itself already is action in search of a foothold wherefrom to take flight into life.

Wisdom and Destiny Maurice Maeterlinck 1905

But the dragons are dead and converted into poor fossil ichthyosauruses, incapable of biting the timidest damsel or the most corpulent knight that ever came out of the Stock Exchange.

G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study Julius West 1904