"It is good to feel warm once more," she said, an odd timidness in her manner.
"The Hollow of Her Hand"
George Barr McCutcheon
Languid, yet full, brimful of life; dark, yet very lustrous; liquid, yet clear as stars; they are compared by their poets to the shape of the almond and the bright timidness of the gazelle.
"Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century"
W. H. Davenport Adams
Govinda had aged, he too, but still his face bore the same features, expressed zeal, faithfulness, searching, timidness.
"Siddhartha"
Herman Hesse