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Timidly in sentence

74 examples of Timidly in a sentence

'He is timidly insolent,' said M. de Croisenois.
It was an extremely irksome task, servitors brought him the mail, bank staff came with various queries and, when they saw that K. was busy, stood by the door and did not go away until he had listened to them, the deputy director did not miss the opportunity to disturb K. and came in frequently, took the dictionary from his hand and flicked through its pages, clearly for no purpose, when the door to the ante-room opened even clients would appear from the half darkness and bow timidly to him - they wanted to attract his attention but were not sure whether he had seen them - all this activity was circling around K. with him at its centre while he compiled the list of words he would need, then looked them up in the dictionary, then wrote them out, then practised their pronunciation and finally tried to learn them by heart.
Frances, impelled by a restless inquietude, now timidly ventured on the piazza of the cottage.
Caesar took his chair again, and after looking timidly round the room, remarked,-"I t'ought he time war' come!""No," said Katy, solemnly, "he will live till the tide is out, or the first cock crows in the morning."
When, therefore, she heard the footsteps of a horse moving slowly up the road, she shrank, timidly, into a little thicket of wood which grew around the spring that bubbled from the side of a hillock near her.
She bent towards him and timidly took one of his hands, while with the other she gently removed the curls from his burning brow.
She bent timidly around till her breath stirred his curls and whispered, "I--love--you!"Then she sprang away and ran around and around the desks and benches, with Tom after her, and took refuge in a corner at last, with her little white apron to her face.
By and by Joe timidly ventured upon a roundabout "feeler" as to how the others might look upon a return to civilization--not right now, but--Tom withered him with derision!
Pending the advent of these bad times, they timidly enjoyed their final moments of happiness, arriving with an anxious, sugary air at the shop, and repeating to themselves, on each occasion, that they would perhaps return no more.
'Never, ma'am--never,' said Goodwin.'Oh, sir, you should be careful--you should indeed; you don't know what harm you may do missis; you'll be sorry for it one day, I know--I've always said so.'The unlucky Pott looked timidly on, but said nothing.
Mr. Tupman glanced timidly at his leader.
The girl looked timidly at Mr. Bob Sawyer, who was expressing his admiration of her personal charms by a variety of wonderful grimaces; and casting an eye at the hats and greatcoats which hung in the passage, called another girl to mind the door while she went upstairs.
'No, sir,' she replied timidly.
These were matters too high for her, and she began timidly to rub the Queen's feet.
He was particularly anxious to avoid marring the freshness of the magnificent baldric we are acquainted with; but on timidly opening his eyes, he found himself with his nose fixed between the two shoulders of Porthos--that is to say, exactly upon the baldric.
"The fact is," hazarded d’Artagnan, timidly, "I did not see the handkerchief fall from the pocket of Monsieur Aramis.
added d’Artagnan, timidly.
"Then the diamond is safe?" said he, timidly.
Porthos ate his wing of the fowl timidly, and shuddered when he felt the knee of the procurator’s wife under the table, as it came in search of his.
"If Monsieur Chevalier would follow me?" said Kitty, timidly.
"I crave pardon, noble lord," said Isaac timidly, "but wherefore should I rely wholly on the word of one who will trust nothing to mine?""Because thou canst not help it, Jew," said the knight, sternly.
She was turning a corner, her little feet, shod in high boots, kept close together, and she was skating timidly toward him.
He approached Kitty timidly, but her smile again tranquillized him.
'Yes,' she said looking timidly toward the door, just as Nicholas returned.
When the doctors were alone, the family doctor began timidly to express his opinion, which was that a tuberculous process had begun, but... etc.
He gazed joyfully, intently, and yet timidly at the lady who was entering, and slowly rose from his seat.
'Suppose we have some Rhine wine,' said the young one, turning his eyes timidly to Vronsky while his fingers tried to catch hold of his just-budding moustache.
Petrov rose with the aid of a stick and looked timidly at the Prince.
He looked at her questioningly, and timidly.
They were debating the grant of some money and the laying of some pipes, and Koznyshev spoke about something for a long time in a triumphant tone and stung two of the members; another member, having noted something on a bit of paper, started timidly, but went on to answer him very venomously and neatly.
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