Ah, Sir! too late I find my Confidence Has overcome my unhappy Bashfulness; I had an humbler Suit to approach you with; But this unlook'd for Honour Has soon confounded all my lesser aims, As were they not essential to my Being, I durst not name them after what y'have done.

" His confusion, which she attributed to bashfulness, encouraged the shameless coquette to add: "Maybe you liked me better as Bud?"

A pause followed, doubt and bashfulness apparently supervening; but at length a calm, thoughtful gentleman got up, and went through sundry passages in Isaiah.

This will explain the prim little ladylike air of bashfulness and constraint which Redbud exhibited, when her eyes fell on Verty, and the coolness with which she gave him her hand.

The Ante-Nicene Fathers (Am. ed.), II., 21.] Tertullian names among "sins of daily committal, to which we all are liable," the "sin" of "lying, from bashfulness [or modesty], or 'necessity.'"

However, we entered into the presence of Zagathai with fear and bashfulness; he was sitting on a bed, having a small citern or lute in his hand, and his wife sat beside him, who, I really believe, had amputated her nose, between the eyes, that it might be the flatter, for she had no nose in that part of her face, which was smeared over with black ointment, as were also her eyebrows, which seemed very filthy in our eyes.

Tiny, still grave and unsmiling, sat down amid shouts for encore, and refused to repeat her performance, pretending to be overcome with bashfulness.

He accounts bashfulness the wickedest thing in the world, and therefore studies impudence.

This kind of bashfulness is far from men of valour, and especially from soldiers, for such are ever men without doubt forward and confident, losing no time lest they should lose opportunity, which is the best factor for a lover.

Arrived at the house, Jack's bashfulness returned.

[4070]Seneca, "thinks his own burthen the heaviest," and a melancholy man above all others complains most; weariness of life, abhorring all company and light, fear, sorrow, suspicion, anguish of mind, bashfulness, and those other dread symptoms of body and mind, must needs aggravate this misery; yet compared to other maladies, they are not so heinous as they be taken.

" I say with him in A. Gellius, "let us maintain the vigour of our souls with a moderate cup of wine," Natis in usum laetitiae scyphis, "and drink to refresh our mind; if there be any cold sorrow in it, or torpid bashfulness, let's wash it all away.

And 'tis most true, that Antony Ludovicus saith in his book de Pudore, "bashfulness either hurts or helps," such men I am sure it hurts.

He in his turn was accustomed to follow her about, longing for courage to declare his love, but bashfulness always sealed his lips.

And the boy gazing at her face, forgot his bashfulness far enough to admire the frock and the slippers as much as she thought they deserved.

The scholar's complaint of his own bashfulness 158.

The nature and remedies of bashfulness 160.

He presented me to my aunt, a lady of great eminence for the number of her acquaintances, and splendour of her assemblies, and either in kindness or revenge consulted with her, in my presence, how I might be most advantageously dressed for my first appearance, and most expeditiously disencumbered from my villatick bashfulness.

The origin of the veil is referred by the Greeks to modesty and bashfulness.

Bedient had to remember hard, after dozens of fluent and delightful letters, that he must encounter the old bashfulness again....

" Vaisampayana continued, "While in heaven, hearing her speak in this strain, Arjuna was overcome with bashfulness.

And those foremost of women, confounded by Nala's splendour and bashfulness would not accost him at all in speech.

Nay, banishing away all bashfulness, she hath herself, O king, declared her mind to me.

Drugget knows the rank of his customers by their bashfulness; and, when he finds them unwilling to be seen, invites them up stairs, or retires with them to the back window.

He felt an absurd bashfulness tying his tongue.