Sometimes he regretted his timidity.
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower
If ever man made a desperate, cunning love to a woman, you made it to me; but I soon got over my timidity, and knew you were only desperately in earnest, which made me love you until I went mad.
"The Mystery of the Locks"
Edgar Watson Howe
Now that he was actually in the middle of carrying out the plans of the owner of the Kalkis, Captain Rannie suffered from none of the timidity and truculent nervousness which had assailed him the day before.
"Command"
William McFee