Sometimes, accompanied by her sister or her maidens, she would go by night to Jamestown, and half laughing, half frightened, they would set down the baskets before the fort and run like timorous deer back to the forest before the sentinel had opened the gate in the palisade in answer to their call.
"The Princess Pocahontas"
Virginia Watson
But one does get so timorous of saying anything.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
Then he bethought him of what Honnor Cunyngham, with her firm independence of character, her proud self-reliance, would have said to all these timorous fancies.
"Prince Fortunatus"
William Black