Word: shyer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quarterly Dublin Review for nearly a decade, now, at 72, cuts a glorious Irish swath through London on his visits, tricked out in mutton-chop whiskers, cockaded tam-o'-shanter, green kilt and dagger in the stocking. He pursues his ghosts with gusto that may well alarm the shyer shades, as well as some readers. To those who are under the impression that the church forbids traffic in ghosts, he explains that the prohibition is against calling them up by necromancy or seance (as did Saul with the Witch of Endor), not against seeing them. Author Leslie limits...
...Just as their guardians were about to give up, Jimmy, another male and a female took bravely to the timber. The fourth, an effete female prophetically named Lady, refused to accompany them. Smits explained Lady's behavior: "Wolves are much more individualistic than dogs, and females are much shyer than males...