Always the timidest who find the deadest, Hayward remembered her former professor of forensic psychology at NYU joking. ❋ Preston, Douglas (2005)
When you are not the timidest, you are the bravest of creatures. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Marion Jordan! the gentlest, timidest, most typical of young English girls! ❋ Mona Caird (N/A)
He moved alertly; the poise of his head was sanguine; the sun shone on him; the timidest soul came nearer to him. ❋ Sara Jeannette Duncan (N/A)
My eyes were always the timidest things about me: and to shut my eyes tight against the dark was the only way I had of meeting the solitude of the first hour of bed when Nan-nan had left me, and before I could get to sleep. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
And even the timidest of the sheep began to cast eyes across at the goats. ❋ Various (N/A)
{208} What then is the reason, why the most offensive men in the city, the men with the loudest voices, are so cowed before me, the timidest of men, whose voice is no louder than any other? ❋ 384 BC-322 BC Demosthenes (1912)
It is said that outside the field of battle he was one of the timidest of men, and even submitted quite tamely to the insolence of his own servants. ❋ Unknown (1906)
The vast, profound thought that brings with it nothing but sadness is energy burning its wings in the darkness to throw light on the walls of its prison; but the timidest thought of hope, or of cheerful acceptance of inevitable law, in itself already is action in search of a foothold wherefrom to take flight into life. ❋ Maurice Maeterlinck (1905)
But the dragons are dead and converted into poor fossil ichthyosauruses, incapable of biting the timidest damsel or the most corpulent knight that ever came out of the Stock Exchange. ❋ Julius West (1904)
How often do we find some boy to be the sweetest-souled child in the house and the timidest, while his sister is the strongest, most unmanageable, and the leading spirit. ❋ Unknown (1901)
It was always upon some perfectly innocent nothing, which the timidest son might have permitted himself, that the wrath of Darius overwhelmingly burst. ❋ Arnold Bennett (1899)
And then, when the truth was dawning on them all, and there were exclamations of wonder, a pretty scene suddenly presented itself, for the old lady, who had entered with the timidest courtesy, slipped down on her knees before Tommy and kissed his hand. ❋ Unknown (1898)
Mrs. R was the first white lady the people of many of the outlying villages had ever seen on horseback, or perhaps had ever seen at all, and the timidest of them would invariably bolt into the jungle at her appearance. ❋ Thomas Stevens (1894)
With a great cry of the soul to that God it yearned and felt for through all the darkness and ruin which encompassed it, he laid his hand on hers with the timidest passing touch. ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)
Cornelia feel as much at home with them on the summit they had reached, as she felt with the timidest beginners in the Preparatory. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)
To give you a clue, recollect that he was the timidest of souls. ❋ Alexander Whyte (1878)
She hasn't inveigled me or set her cap at me, as you call it, in any way; she's the sweetest, timidest, most shrinking little thing that ever existed; on the contrary, it is I who have humbly asked her to accept me, because I know no other woman to whom I could give my whole heart so unreservedly. ❋ Grant Allen (1873)
