Do we say shyly or shy

shyly 266 occurrences

"You don't know Etta," he said, half shyly.

Forgetting for the moment the prudence which ignorance of Martial customs had hitherto dictated, I lifted to my lips the hand that she, following the example of the rest, but shyly and half reluctantly, laid on my shouldera form very different to the distant greeting I had heretofore received, and marking that I was no longer to be treated as a stranger to the family.

" Taking off the glove of her left hand, she came up to me shyly and slowly, and placed it in my righta not unmeaning ceremony.

" Her face again brightened, and she looked up more shyly but not less earnestly.

They swerved before the meeting, their wings fluttered, they lighted on branches of the same tree and shyly eyed each other.

" The cabin boy looked at him shyly, and Jack, who was a very sharp boy, said quickly, "Is not that what you call her, Henry?"

Then she continued a little shyly, as her companion leaned over to stroke my cropped ears "You seem very fond of animals.

I didn't think of that?" "Oh, no; I wish I was," laughed Marjorie, glancing shyly at him from under her broad brim.

Even her face brightened and bloomed in this atmosphere, and by and by she took Eva and Alice and Janey into her confidence so far that she shyly asked their advice about her dress, and profited by it to such an extent that Alice could no longer say, "She does dress so!" ESTHER BODN.

"Dearest little sister," she said shyly and tenderly, "we have something very wonderful to tell you."

But when she saw their merry faces and heard them laugh, she returned shyly.

In they all came one after another; some shyly, some boldly, some gracefully, some awkwardly, some pushing, some pulling; in they all came, anyhow and everyhow.

And when that I had made an end of fastening her garment, she did nestle unto me for a while, and afterward stood away and made shyly to show me that I put her belt again about her pretty waist.

Migwan, thrilled and happy, but still very much embarrassed, shyly promised that she would let her see some of her work, and in the middle of her speech a potato blew up with a bang, showering them all with mealy fragments and hot ashes, and sending them flying away from the fire with startled shrieks.

So in another thing I talkd of somebody's insipid wife, without a correspondent object in my head: and a good lady, a friend's wife, whom I really love (don't startle, I mean in a licit way) has looked shyly on me ever since.

The boy came in with eyes fixed on the ground and shyly took a seat near Kumodini Babu.

Some half-naked children stood shyly watching her from a little distance.

What in the spirit's depths was there created, What shyly there the lip shaped forth in sound; A failure now, with words now fitly mated, In the wild tumult of the hour is drown'd; Full oft the poet's thought for years hath waited Until at length with perfect form 'tis crowned; What dazzles, for the moment born, must perish; What genuine is posterity will cherish.

WAGNER Around us as in doubt I see him shyly bound, Since he two strangers seeth in his master's stead.

" Below, shyly off in one corner, written very lightly as if he scarcely dared write it, she found: "You don't know what a wonderful thing it is to me just to know that you are in the world.

On the other hand, she could not have resisted dropping shyly such remarks as these: "I think Dr. Gemmell is a noble man," or, "How wonderfully good Dr. Gemmell is to the poor!"

She looked shyly at my husband from under her brows.

I have a great mind, now, not to respect anything myself; not even that cadet button, made into a pin, which Ruth wears so shyly.

It did her ladyship much good, and she sauntered out upon the lawn and shyly sought the sun-dial and brought from it a nosegay of bridal-roses and fled, shamefaced, with them to her own chamber, there to seat herself by the open window to wait and watch for her young lord.

Dot shyly proffered her arm.

shy 1536 occurrences

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.

Do we say   shyly   or  shy