32 collocations for shy

" He shied a little to the right, with a view of preventing a collision with the creatures, and the moment he was close enough, let fly with one chamber at the nearest.

But, here, I'll shy your book through the transom.

" He looked up at the two-story dwelling house before us, let his eyes wander down the row of modest residences and linger on the pavements where a tattered newsboy was shying stones at a stray cat; then his glance came back to my face with a smile.

And when I see 'im I'm going to put my arms round 'im and twist 'is neck; then I'm going to break every bone in 'is body, and arter that I'm going to shy 'im overboard to pison the fishes with.'

I only hope we're tipped the wink in time to shunt out o' here; I've no particular fancy for sitting in a cellar with the Boche cock-shying their bombs down the steps at me."

For a while the guns were fired singly and then they were fired in salvos; and you might mark how the grass for fifty yards in front of the muzzles would lie on the earth quite flat and then stand erect, and how the guns, like shying bronchos, would leap backward upon their carriages and then slide forward again as the air in the air cushions took up the kick.

You'll get into rows if you shy candlesticks at fellows' heads at that rate.

It's shy a card now.

Finally one of their number shied a carrot into the ring, striking the elephant trainer.

I told him he ought not to let strangers get the old man's money, that he ought to shy his castor into the ring.

"You damned yellow heathen," he said in a level voice, "if you ever play that trick on that cat again th' Quarter Circle KT will be shy a cook an' your ghost'll be headin' pronto for China!"

Lorry shied his dollar and knocked the other's coin several feet away from the line.

He was used to admiration from feminine eyes, and flattery from soft lips, but found something new and charming in the innocent delight which showed itself at his approach in blushes more eloquent than words, and shy glances from eyes full of hero-worship.

And all amazed and silent, scared and shy An alien group beneath an alien sky!

Notwithstanding the liberal margin of profit on his winter's operations, Bill realized that he was still shy approximately half of the sum which Doctor Thomas had set as satisfactory, and when the latter began planning to resume work on a larger scale in the fall Mr. Hyde was stricken with panic.

And now, having stirred the spirit within him to a demonstrative pitch, PUNCHINELLO shies his cocked hat into space, and calls upon his Public to give three rousing cheers for the RIGHT PARTY.

The pony shied and trotted into the corral, the other horses following.

I shied my open knife at him and almost lost it, though it was too big for him to swallow.

"You trot up to the slaughter-shop, Grim, and interview that ArabSidi bin Something-or-Otherforget his namehe lies in number nineteen cot on the left-hand side of the long ward, next to a Pathan who's shy both legs.

Meanwhile he had taken on weight until, as one of his friends remarked, "Most any hoss but a Percheron draft would shy the minute Bud tried to put his foot in the stirrup.

" "Here, I'll do it," said Eric suddenly; "shy us the paper.

I ses, shouting at 'im. "'What for?' 'e ses, shying another piece.

Here indeed was a discovery, and instead of picking up at the end of the passage a little brass or silver casket, which had only to be opened to show Blackbeard's diamond gleaming inside, I had stumbled on the Mohunes' vault, and found it to be nothing but a cellar of gentlemen of the contraband, for surely good liquor would never be stored in so shy a place if it ever had paid the excise.

We got along beautifully until she began to shy figurative pots at me because Selim's wife looked at me occasionally.

"But whut's de use doin' hit ef we kin manage to shy roun' some o' dat wuck an' keep on libin' anyhow, specially wid wages so high?"

32 collocations for  shy