Word: timidly
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...Bolsheviks deported by the U. S. had received in this country "anything but kicks and cuffs. . . . That is what some of our workers found. These needy lives press us in the crowds, but no virtue goes out from us to them, as it did from Jesus to a timid, suffering woman years ago. . . . How many we have sent away, as we did Trotzky, raging against established government and distrustful of everything Christian, God only knows. But let us end this worse than misuse of the greatest opportunity that comes to you as a Christian citizen-the chance to introduce...
...made Leviathan steamed into Quarantine, 6 days and 14 hours out from Cherbourg. The timorous passengers smiled and rolled across the solid earth upon their sea legs. The timid questioned whether ever again they would go to sea, questioned whether the sea were conquerable, asked in their hearts whether some day or other some such man-made Leviathan might not succumb to the demons of the ancient deep. Indeed, it would be a serious question for the Shipping Board, or any other shipping agency, if one of its great ships should ever sink before the onslaught of the storm...
...intellect, be it sufficiently subtle, may be able to explain logically how spirits are substantial enough to reflect light, and why the timid creatures, shrinking to invisibility before human gaze, pose so graciously for the photographer. But who will explain the face of Battling Siki among the ethereal throng? Perhaps, the spirits were merely indulging in a low order of practical joke. Such humor, however, is scarcely worthy of men who have attained a more or less fixed station in life, or out of it: and any such explanation must be regarded as a feeble excuse for the somewhat chagrined...
Miss Beringer was the feeblest and most timid of the old ladies. In her loneliness, she caught at the brave cheerfulness of Mrs. Amorest for solace and protection. Years ago, Miss Beringer had had six months of perfect happiness. That was the period of her friendship with Jane, the greatest and loveliest thing in her life. All that remained to her of Jane now was a piece of red amber?a gift which she cherished above all else in the world...
...public Exhibition "with honor to themselves, and to the satisfaction, entertainment and gratification of an unusually numerous, respectable, brilliant, and cheerful auditory, of which the fair of our land were by far the most delightful and active part,--who warmed the cold with their beauty, encouraging the timid by the expressive sweetness of their countenances, and rewarded us musicians by their approving smiles.--'Who that hath a heart, is free from vanitye?'" On another occasion the music was not up to the usual standard because "the Ladies, whom the club principally wishes to serve, the premium mobile of our music...