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Seeing Theodor's disappointed look, the young girl proffered her services, which the bashful patrician reluctantly accepted.
The "helper" came forward with a bashful confidence, expecting that he would receive commendation for his great diligence.
The governor blundered out some bashful confession, that he had encountered the most extraordinary obstacles to his wishes.
Many pupils are so amiable that they are more closely associated with the teacher than more diffident and bashful pupils.
Full of her own sorrowful perplexities, she experienced none of the bashful tremors that had troubled her in anticipation.
Mary, a bashful, meditative, and childlike maiden, in a white garment, is shown in a half-kneeling attitude upon a white bed.
Such likewise is uniformly the case in bashful individuals; this disposition arises in a great measure from a fear of incurring disapprobation.
Am I either of those, that this beautiful creature should be warranted in entertaining some certain quantum of bashful repugnance to me?
It was very funny to see Josie screw her little face into shapes to represent her suitors' bashful grins and side-glances.
I became silent, diffident, bashful, awkward in society, and took refuge in still closer application to my books and my drawing.
The girl correspondingly is transformed into a vivacious, gay, nervous and apprehensive butterfly, or a sedate, dreamy, bashful, or even morose moth.
A man of antique character; true as a child, simple, even bashful, and of a strength and valor rarely exampled among men.
Then, when he wasn't bashful, he was rude; now he was the personification of self-possession and mental and physical alertness.
What impressed me on the part of the children was their extremely respectful and bashful behavior, amounting almost to timidity.
This wondrous flower of affection grows by "bashful watching" just as morning glories unfold in greeting to the hour of enchantment.
The five hundred women applauded softly with gloved hands, seeking to encourage the bashful great man who was their guest.
She was a nice-looking, awkward, loud, rather bashful, brown-haired girl, with a sallow complexion, bright eyes, and a perpetual smile.
My old governess, Madame de Forgeon, used to say that English people never knew how to be bashful; they only looked culpable.
The mongrel sportsman and the bashful wench in a sun-bonnet were after all, they thought, a genuine substitute for Ned Blossom.
I recalled her former appearance when her manner had been nervous and bashful, her eyes downcast, her movements hurried and anxious.
The beauty of the young prince fascinated him, and he cordially grasped the hand Leo extended, with a half bashful reserve.
He whose eyes are small and conveniently round, is bashful and weak, very credulous, liberal to others, and even in his conversation.
He stood with his feet turned in, like some great awkward boy, a bashful, shame-faced look lurking about his mouth and eyes.
The year out west had turned the bashful country boy into a stalwart, independent individual whom even Piney regarded with some respect.
The luckless teacher was young and bashful, and the rolling marbles seemed to him to fill the universe with reverberating echoes.
It may be that the larger social experience of the widows magnified their charms or made them more adept at handling bashful lovers.
After a little bashful hesitation, Dave chimed in, while the rest of the boys lay back and listened in undisguised delight.
No one could come in contact with the prince without liking him, for his bashful, gentle, and teachable nature is very winning.
This, perhaps, was however owing to the ordinary inexperience of youth; which, if not awkwardly bashful, is generally awkward in its assurance.
She looked down as she said this, amiably bashful, with only one side glance at her companion to observe its effect on her.
His wide-open blue eyes, the artless admiration mingling with his bashful diffidence, all were proof that he could not be deceiving her.
With the former, persons like him are awkward and bashful, or modest and unassuming, according to the bent of their natural disposition.
The most impudent deceit had become natural to him, and was concealed under an air that was simple, upright, sincere, often bashful.
He had a wistful, bashful little smile, an air of being perpetually busy, and a round, mild eye the color of a boiled oyster.
It consisted of a selection of original aphorisms by an anonymous gentleman, who in this bashful manner gave a bruised heart to the world.
He was so awkward and bashful and dressed so queerly that the clerks winked at one another and snickered behind his back.
Some are solemn with a sense of responsibility, some wear a smile half bashful, half provoked, but one air of determination pervades them all.
"What have you against eyeballs that roll in a fine frenzy when a battery of handsome eyes is trained upon a bashful fellow like me?"
In the first cause he is as bold as a lion, but in the second many a modest soul is naturally, even though foolishly, bashful.
The Commodore is a bashful man, and it has always seemed to him that the laughter of girls is particularly and peculiarly derisive.
She had typing to do and even obituary notices to write and sometimes love letters to compose for bashful young men and maidens.
The moonlit evenings on deck were sufficient to inspire the most bashful lover, and Gerald did not dare waste his golden opportunities.
He was most absurdly, but naturally, more than a little shy and bashful at finding himself in a position of complete equality with me.
The young folks formed in a circle holding hands, slowly revolving around a bashful young man standing in the center of the circle.
This did not suit innocence; she hung her head and fluttered, and showed a bashful repugnance to look her admirer in the face.
McNeil was not much of a talker, having an impediment in his speech, and being a trifle bashful in the presence of a lady.
Let me not be tempted to waste my time, and weaken my powers, by attempts to soar on feeble pinions "where angels bashful look."
I was extremely bashful, had no social aptitude, and was likely to stutter when anxious or embarrassed, yet I seem to have made a good impression.
The girl may, in a few months, change from a tall, angular, romping tomboy into a blooming, dimpled young woman, bashful and afraid.
Wordless, like a bashful Indian maid, the avenger ate in silence the food set before him on the ground in front of his crossed shins.
Said the friendly Susan, and the young man agreed fervently, in a bashful mumble, "It's fierce, all right," and returned to his book.
Cause the youths and the bashful damsels to meet in secret; and by any contrivance they can, let them deceive their watchful husbands.
And the young lady so bashful, it was near half an hour before we could get her to finish a pint of raspberry between us.
At this moment a bashful glance directed to him by dame Christine, unseen by all the rest, rewarded him for his chivalrous conduct.
Timidly, and with a bashful boldness, if we may use the expression, did the fair young girl ring the area bell at the colonel's.
Theodore asks Louisa "how her worthy parents do," and is otherwise very friendly to the large, bashful girl who adorns his parlor steadily.
The nervous man became the fretful and capricious tyrant of mock tragedy; the bashful man warmed at the foot-lights with passion and power.
Being a bashful boy I felt terrified at the mere thought of taking such a step before that crowd of "rowdies" who were openly scoffing.
It may have been that they were a trifle bashful about exposing themselves to the galling fire of the little band entrenched behind the walls.
Then there were the "bashful flutter," "angry flutter," "scornful flutter," and a variety of other movements not set down in any military tactics.
He liked that modest droop of her head and those bashful soft eyes, as if, by George, as if she were really afraid of him.
This is undoubtedly true; yet nothing is more clear, as Addison has shown us, than that a person may be both bashful and impudent.
She was listening with bashful smile and downcast eyes to words such as the warrior had never breathed to her, save in his dreams.
One glance showed that the handsome woman before him was Lady Augusta, and the bashful curate blushed deeply at the awkwardness of his position.
When I returned, Lincoln, who had undertaken to entertain the ladies, was twisting and squirming in his chair, and as bashful as a schoolboy.
If they are bashful and refuse to jump, or awkward enough to upset and put out the candle, they will be childless or have only girls.
A late traveler, hearing of these dancers, desired some women to perform, but they appeared so modest, bashful, and diffident, that he feared to urge them.
A careful teacher will explain to his pupils that the confident pupil gets more from the teacher than the diffident and bashful pupil.
Now, sir, I am also a bashful man, and, as I was saying, bashfulness is one of the blood relations which procrastination has fastened upon me.
Under her crimson mask, when the rescuers finally reached her, she lay as perfectly disguised as even her most bashful mood could have wished.
About ten seconds later he returned with a slightly bashful and very girlish little wife, who struggled under the weight of a ponderous infant.
The patent vest-pocket phonograph for music at balls and proposals for bashful men alone would make their fortunes if they only could see it.
Obedient to the call, a bashful, half-grown girl appeared, wiping her hands on her apron, and looking up timidly from under her long eyelashes.
Far and near the trees were in leaf, some fully arrayed for the summer, others just trying on their new garments with bashful diffidence.
The young Indian is shy and bashful in his courtships, and having resolved to marry, conceals his first overtures with all the Indian cunning.
Charles smoothed the fair locks which were slightly ruffled upon her forehead, and laughed a little laugh of bashful consciousness becoming her new position.
Having got to the end of a verse, One-Eye sat up, smiled feebly, darted a bashful glance at Cis, and went on with his questions.
Obviously he was a bashful man, unused to finding himself the center of attraction, and almost painfully desirous of acquitting himself well when needs must.
The uncomfortable sense of the bashful business to follow caused me to falter with my hand still at the latch, and to parley with Cynthia.
Indeed, many an innocuous writing appeared anonymously, for the bashful author, protected against the miseries of conspicuous failure, could always shyly acknowledge a successful production.
Some of the more bashful pulled up the collars of their coats and searched their Bibles as if they had not yet found the text.
He was twirling a shaggy mustache and buzzing a handsome and not at all bashful ballet girl at the same time, a short distance away.
Our bashful fears, our silent interjections, our blushes, as we met each other's eyes, were expressive with an eloquence, a boyish charm, which I have ceased to feel.
The males, who were not bashful, seized them with bare hands; the females took them, putting forth their gloved hands from beneath their garments.
He had now to apportion the rewards that were due to his followers, who, as usually happens in such cases, were not bashful in claiming them.
All have seen the pitifully bashful child whose mother takes every opportunity to tell the visitors, in the child's hearing, how bashful she is.
Then, usually, it is not because the pupil is stubborn or possesses some other vicious trait; he may be bashful or may have received inhumane treatment at home.
He who is intelligent, bashful, forgiving, god-fearing and humble, proceeds to the region which is attainable by the learned and those born in a pious race.
She was eccentric, an odd mixture of bashful reserve and unexpected spells of frankness, sweet, gentle, and retiring in disposition, but possessed of great courage.
Alan Howard been a bashful young man of the type that reddens and twists its hat in big nervous hands and looks guilty in general.
Then with eyes bashful and cast down, fearing lest my speech had been irksome to him, far as to the river I refrained from speaking.
Norma had been seated next to her at the international tennis tournament, and had befriended the squirming and bashful Caroline from sheer goodness of heart.
With a friendly nod and smile she tossed her reins to a bashful youngster, and tripped up the path to where the seaman was standing.
When a boy Henry Clay was very bashful and diffident, and scarcely dared recite before his class at school, but he determined to become an orator.
Blushing like a bashful boy, he suddenly exclaimed, counted out the change, and poured it into our hands with so many apologies, that we were glad to retreat.
They know they are posing, and in spite of their public experience they're as bashful as schoolboys or as arrogant as policemen, according to their personal characteristics.
The girl, who was not used to such things, appeared confused and embarrassed, and smiled with that timid, bashful look that was characteristic of her.
It's placing a bashful young fellow, like me, in a very embarrassing situation, when his wife that is to be won't stand with him at the altar.
The bashful man rather gives the impression of a person embarrassed by his body, looking round for some convenient cloak-room in which to deposit it.
He cannot help it, and can no more fling it from him than can the bashful young man his self-consciousness when crossing a ballroom floor.