He found her charmingintelligent and cultivated and so easynot at all stiff and shy like so many royalties.

"Oh, ever so different, from thisthis saucy fellowmodest, timid, shy; needing ever so much encouragement toto" "Claim their due?"

My sister was more shy than me; never having lived in London was the reason of that.

The girls were less boisterous, and regarded Teddy with shy curiosity.

He was very much like Marjorie himself, just as shy, just as sensitive, hardly more fitted to take his own part, and I think Marjorie was the braver of the two.

"I'm a shy, retiring violet," he stated somewhat superfluously, "but if the world will kindly lend its ears, I'll inform it coyly that was some shootin'.

So the bird looks out at morn At the larks that mount the sky, And it gazes, still and shy, At the new moon's scanty horn.

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.

" "Upon my soul, this is cool," and Randal looked down, wondering if the audacious lady on his arm could be shy Ruth.

Looking gravely at the river and never at his hearers, as if still a little shy of confidants, yet grateful for the relief of words, Thorn began abruptly: "I never hear the number eighty-four without clapping my hand to my left breast and missing my badge.

I'm humly, an' I'm poor; but I've loved yeou ever sence we went a-nuttin' years ago, an' yeou shook daown fer me, kerried my bag, and kissed me tew the gate, when all the others shunned me, 'cause my father drank an' I was shabby dressed, ugly, an' shy.

She had shown off her fancied indifference to Lancelot before them, and now began in a softer voice 'Why will you be so shy and lonely, Mr. Smith?' 'Because I am not fit for your society.'

This Mr. George Powler was a heavy thick-set man, approaching middle age, with the air of a prosperous merchant, and with a somewhat shy and awkward manner; it seemed to Ida that he looked rather bored as he sat on one of the stiff, uncomfortable chairs, with the mother and daughter "engaging him in conversation," as they would have called it.

"And you feel shy and nervous; but, if you only knew it, you are better off here than you would be anywhere else; you have the very best surgeons in the worldwe are awfully proud of them; and, though I ought not to say it, the best of nursing.

For instance, practically all wild animals are shy and timid and run away at man's approach.

Yet my own experience has many times shown me exactly the opposite trait: that when these same shy animals find me unexpectedly close at hand, more than half the time they show no fear whatever but only an eager curiosity to know who and what the creature is that sits so quietly near them.

For the horrible story of Red Riding Hood is not known among the Indians, who know well how untrue the tale is to wolf nature, and how foolish it is to frighten children with false stories of wolves and bears, misrepresenting them as savage and bloodthirsty brutes, when in truth they are but shy, peace-loving animals, whose only motive toward man, except when crazed by wounds or hunger, is one of childish curiosity.

Thinking of all these things, Mooka forgot her fears of the white wolves, remembering with a kind of sympathy how hungry all these shy prowlers must be to leave their own haunts, whence the rabbits and seals had vanished, and venture boldly into the yards of men.

Shy and wild as he naturally is, a duck, like a caribou or a turkey, must take a peek at every new thing.

If I were an ex-convict I would fight shy of all "Refuges," "Sheltering Arms," "Saint Andrew's Societies" and the philanthropic "College Settlements."

I was very shy and did not say much, as everything was strange to me.

" "We know the practised finger," Said the books, "that seems like brain"; And the shy page rustled the secret It had kept till I came again.

He had learned early that she was as shy about doing a kindness as a child who hides its face, while offering you half of its lolly-pop.

Dr. Johnson, to whom I had stated the case, was clear that I ought; but, in his usual way, he was very shy of discovering a desire to be invited there himself.

I fight shy of all the rest.