60 examples of bashfully in sentences

" said the orphan, bashfully turning her head still further aside, and bringing one ear-ring to bear strongly upon him.

The eldest girl, about fourteen, came in whilst we were there, and she leaned herself bashfully against the wall for a minute or two, and then slunk slyly out again, as if ashamed of our presence.

The little woman smiled bashfully, and replied, "Yes, sir; I suppose it is."

" He greeted her somewhat bashfully.

But the clerk had had no experience with chickens and in bashfully groping for the selected rooster allowed several other occupants of the crate to escape.

" From a distant corner Mr. Elderberry bashfully rose.

" "You see, I can't help feeling," said Peter, bashfully, "that she wouldn't have told me why she couldn't marry me, if she hadn't thought she might bring herself to do it in the end, if I got over the difficulties she mentioned.

" Thus encouraged, I poured out the story of my little romance; bashfully at first and with halting phrases, but, later, with more freedom and confidence.

And Miss Sallianna raised her eyes, bashfully, to Verty's face, then cast them with maidenly modesty upon the carpet.

(to FEJEVARY rather bashfully)

Some Filipinas, who had been invited, sat bashfully at one end of the apartment and danced with one another when called upon, without being noticed by the Spaniards, who conversed together at the other end.

You'll find the Lawton house" "Yes, I know where the Lawton house is," interrupted Bert, "but Miss Lawton, you said?" "Don't you remember, Bert," put in James, "there is a kid thereMaude, or something of that sort?" "No, no, not Maude," persisted Bennington, still more bashfully.

Hereupon their minds (animi) were appeased, which was through fear lest their sentiments should be divulged; and then they began to speak modestly and to act bashfully; from which circumstance I knew that they were not of mean descent but of honorable birth; and then I told them, how I saw them in the forest as satyrs, twenty as calf-satyrs, six as panther-satyrs, and four as wolf-satyrs; they were thirty in number.

The Indian brought me hers, when I was alone, looked bashfully down when she gave it, and made an almost sentimental little speech.

"Father, I fear you are tired," said Gerard bashfully.

They smiled bashfully at the row of maidens with the bright red ties.

Like all the other places it was deserted, but at the sound of his footsteps a little Syrian boy not more than ten years old came from behind the screen at the end of the room and stood bashfully awaiting his order.

" Elise interrupted him with anxious haste: "I was beside myself," said she, confused and bashfully.

And bashfully stepping out from among the women, the poor princess of Panchala gently spake unto him these words, 'The handsome youth, looking like a mighty elephant and known by the name of Vrihannala, was formerly the charioteer of Arjuna.

Diego grinned bashfully when Jack's shadow flung itself across the saddle and so announced his coming, and stood up and waited humbly before the white señor who had fought for him, a mere peon, born to kicks and cursings rather than to kindness, and so had won the very soul of him.

" "Keep it for Dolly," said Tony, bashfully, and pushing the coin into her little hand.

he asked, bashfully. "Of co'se!"

Another class of visitors deserving notice were those who preferred to occupy the kitchen and back chambers, humbly proud and bashfully arrogant people, who kept their hats and bonnets by them, and small bundles, to delude themselves and us with the idea that they "had not come to stay, and had no occasion for any attention."

Lisbeth, embarrassed in her strange attire, had bashfully walked along behind the bride.

"T'ank you," she murmured bashfully, "but ay have a fella.

60 examples of  bashfully  in sentences