Word: timidly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...scanty, fruitless plants that, timid, cling...
...With a timid starry glow...
...when speaking of those who are called popular men in college, that they obtain their position by "being politic," that is, by seizing all opportunities of insinuating themselves into the good graces of their companions, embracing all occasions of placing themselves prominently forward, and perhaps by treading over the timid and cautious and by assuming a right and power, which is yielded to them, not because they have any claims to what they assume, but because others have not the courage nor inclination to dispute or compete with them...
...timid hare, affrighted...
...censorship of witty students always discriminating in the objects of its attack? It is the peculiarity in a man most open to laughable roughing, not the one most deserving it, that receives the greatest share of this kind of criticism. It has come to such a pass that a timid and sensitive man may well be restrained from an action, perfectly good and praiseworthy in itself, but still a little out of the usual run, from fear of the consequent roughing. At any rate, he is obliged to consider beforehand "what the fellows will say about it." Thus independence...