On reaching the place and going upstairs she found that all was quiet in the children's room, and called to the landlady in timorous tones to please bring up the tea-kettle and something for their breakfast.
Doubtless some ancient Greek has observed that behind the big mask and the speaking-trumpet, there must always be our poor little eyes peeping as usual and our timorous lips more or less under anxious control.
" I have not, " replied M. d'Anquetil, " those scruples which intimidate the crowd of ordinary men, and which I consider good only to stop the timorous and restrain the wretched" .
Finding nobody there, I past on to the next; But I must own, I was a little timorous at going in, for this was the very room where Donna Elvira used to sleep.
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At first they try the gods with entrails and blood of cattle, even then the spotted hearts of sheep and the dread veins threatening disaster portend refusal to the timorous seers.
Their intention to become husband and wife, at first halting and timorous, had accumulated momentum with the lapse of hours, till it now bore down every obstacle in its course.
Except that I remember them both to have been—like myself—timorous of highwaymen, and the prisoner has not a timorous air." " Did you ever see a counterfeit of timidity, Mr. Lorry?