Yet even here that old timidity of Nicholas nearly spoiled what little good was hidden in the ukase.

This was in June, 1783, and I find in Mr. Windham's private diary (which it seems this conversation induced him to keep) the following memoranda of Dr. Johnson's advice: 'I have no great timidity in my own disposition, and am no encourager of it in others.

But the best clue to you as to what will be her future conduct, if you act decisively, will be gained by examining the extreme caution and timidity with which, in the late events, she felt her way, before she interposed by force.

And now you talk about discretionyou, who call what was discretion at the right time, timidity, now counsel timidity at the wrong time, and call it discretion.

Not one of the new Ministers appointed during the morning had taken possession of his Ministrya significant timidity on the part of people ordinarily so prompt to throw themselves upon such things.

There was no whit of timidity about him, nor was he the least impertinent.

Their changing moods, their unaccountable likes and dislikes, their petty ambitions and vanities he accepted as part of the heritage of a race of beings apart form his own, and he hid his timidity under a brusque manner which gave him credit for a keener penetration than he actually possessed.

Now did he perhaps hold back in timidity from that world of the trivial things?

It is cowardly timidity for those of us who know them, to keep them from the Christian public.

They were put down, but with as much timidity as cruelty.

The storm increased; lamps gleamed and flitted across the road; many of the horses plunged with their heavy loads, and swept along the line in resistless confusion; for nothing can be less characteristic of timidity than French driving.