" "Do you have to go to the mill right now?" inquired the older man, timorously.

"One must venture something, sometimes, in the cause of religion," thought she, as she started timorously on her way.

The horse passed timorously within, with jerking ears and a distended nostril, looking from side to side.

For what can be generally expected from them, but that they should catch flying reports, or by chance intercept uncertain whispers, that they should inquire timorously, and, therefore, for the greatest part, of those from whom no satisfactory accounts can be received, and that they should often endeavour to deserve their salaries by such information as is rather pleasing than true.

Marcella Eubanks quaffed the first beaker, a trifle timorously, it is true, for the word "punch" had stirred within her a vague memory of sinister associations.

And therefore, though they had ideas enough to distinguish gold from a stone, and metal from wood; yet they but timorously ventured on such terms, as aurietas and saxietas, metallietas and lignietas, or the like names, which should pretend to signify the real essences of those substances whereof they knew they had no ideas.

She had now, indeed, a manner half apologetic and half defiant, but timorously and weakly defiant.

Almost timorously he pulled the rope and listened with a tremor of excitement to the clanging of the bell deep within the building.

With considerable reluctance the door was opened, and then the group, peeping timorously over each other's shoulders, beheld no more formidable object than poor little Oliver Twist, speechless and exhausted.

Not daring to trust themselves beyond sight of land, the mariners crept timorously along the coast, and at length reached Cape Bojador, only sixty leagues, or 180 miles beyond Cape Non.

When my upper vest was taken off, they were, apparently, struck with the splendour of my clothes, and one of them timorously laid her hand upon the embroidery.

He would stand shivering in a corner, and look timorously from side to side, till at last he would pretend she had warmed him with her kisses, and generally made him welcome to the world.

"You are mistaken, friends," returned the verger, timorously.

"Leonora!" said Cecilia, timorously, as she passed.

CHAPTER III "MR. FLECK" Twice after the elevator had deposited her on the floor Jane had approached the door of Room 708, and twice she had walked timorously past it to the end of the hall, trying to muster up courage to enter.

Slowly the shutters were pushed back and a sweet-faced old lady timorously thrust her head out of an upper window.

At last she turned to look at her husband, timorously, an appeal in her eyes that the darkness hid.

Timorously, almost upon tiptoe, he reached the village street.

She was still to the outer eye the slight, brown Winona of twentyperky, birdlike, with the quick trimness of a winging swallow, a little sharper featured perhaps, but superior in acuteness of desire and persistence, and with some furtive, irresponsible girlishness lurking timorously back in her bright glance.

I have a wish, A something timorously to confide

" "What is he saying, my dear?" murmured Mistress Lambert, timorously, as she clung with pathetic fervor to the young girl beside her, "what is the trouble?" "Where is your nephew Adam?" said de Chavasse roughly.

" Timorously the maid followed Janet through intricate windings to the broad stairway.

"Master," said he, timorously, "excuse the speech I offer without waiting.

As the swarthy swarm approached, it spread out until it covered the front of the train and overlapped its flanks, ready to sweep completely around it and fasten upon any point which should seem feebly or timorously defended.

A soft-faced, middle-aged woman with gray ringlets and nervous eyes stepped timorously upon the veranda and watched her departure with an expression of reliefMiss Harriet Crane, the unredeemed daughter of the household.