She made all manner of fun of her English lover, the future Charles II., whom she alone of all the world found bashful; and in general she wasted the golden hours with much excellent fooling.

Queen Henrietta Maria cordially greeted her, lamented more than ever her rejection of the "bashful" Charles II., and compared her to the original Maid of Orléans,an ominous compliment from an English source.

A courting then Petruchio went to Katherine the shrew, and first of all he applied to Baptista, her father, for leave to woo his gentle daughter Katherine, as Petruchio called her, saying archly, that having heard of her bashful modesty and mild behaviour, he had come from Verona to solicit her love.

Then, with a bashful grin, he amended: "I beg pardon.

Back from his sight no bashful children steal; 35 He sits a brother at the cottage-meal; His humble looks no shy restraint impart; Around him plays at will the virgin heart.

With bashful fear no cottage children steal From him, a brother at the cottage meal, 1815.]

The toil of thirty years is now complete, Record sublime of many a warlike feat, Written midst toil and trouble, but the strain Awakens every heart, and will remain A lasting stimulus to glorious deeds; For even the bashful maid, who kindling reads, Becomes a warrior.

So then Skinny went over, kind of bashful and staring all around him, and sat down with the Elk patrol.

"I'll never do so any more," murmured Kitty, wondering why she felt bashful all of a sudden, when it was only cousin Jack.

He will probably make things ten times worse, he's so bashful and queer.

Yes, thank you," murmured Baa-Baa, bowing, blushing, and rumpling his curly fleece in bashful trepidation.

I understood afterward that they "felt bashful," not being used to taking up the collection.

Hugh is proud and sensitive, and you bashful and just the least foolish; so that you are at cross purposes.

thought I. Who's insolent now!How a tyrant of a woman confounds a bashful man!

All will crowd after me: it will be each man's happiness (if ye shall chance to be bashful) to be neglected: I shall be found to be the greatest criminal; and my safety, for which the general voice will be engaged, will be yours.

She being a bashful young thingthen.

And yet this modesty awed her into respect of him; for she could not forget that, whether he had sentiment much or little, sentiment was not the staple of his manhood: she could not forget his cholera work; and she knew that, under that delicate and bashful outside, lay virtue and heroism, enough and to spare.

I determined that when the program was over, I would seek an introduction to her; but at the moment, instead of being the easy man of the world, I became again the bashful boy of fourteen, and my courage failed me.

He wont like you any the worse for being a little bashful with him after such an escapade.

When I said the Lord's prayer at the close, I asked them to follow me, but they were too bashful to comply.

"It'll spoil it for all of us if you don't come," he said, with bashful surliness.

Convinced at last that he was not joking, she went upstairs and put on her bonnet, and then stood waiting for the reluctant Mr. Vickers with an air of almost bashful diffidence.

He was a bashful, awkward fellow, who did not seem to be possessed of the average intelligence.

The saints shall meet Our bashful feet.

Have you got a brook in your little heart, Where bashful flowers blow, And blushing birds go down to drink, And shadows tremble so?