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Sentences starting with shy

Shy laughed again. [9]

Sentences ending with shy

Natasha, who was treated as though she were grown up, was evidently very proud of this but at the same time felt shy. [2]
He was said to be very shy. [5]
Like the rabbits, the beavers had become shy. [13]
But the great surprise of seeing your husband, it has made you shy, quite shy. [11]
I am so shy. [5]
To Mrs. Clemens, in Paris: Jan. 12, '94 Livy darling, I came down from Hartford yesterday with Kipling, and he and Hutton and I had the small smoking compartment to ourselves and found him at last at his ease, and not shy. [5]
But somehow I don't seem to get along with them easily--I'm not myself, they make me shy. [9]
He was shy. [5]

Short sentences using shy

He is a shy man. [5]

Sentences containing shy two or more times

I selected a certain horse because I thought I saw him shy, and I thought that a horse that had spirit enough to shy was not to be despised. [5]

More example sentences with the word shy in them

She is fifteen years old, tall and womanly for her age, has dark hair and eyes, fresh complexion, regular features, pleasant smile and voice, but shy with strangers. [6]
Noiselessly, skillfully stepping with his little feet in low shoes, Iogel flew first across the hall with Natasha, who, though shy, went on carefully executing her steps. [2]
Men are shy with each other where their emotions are in play. [11]
It probably never will; but for all that, there are many shy natures which will recognize tendencies in themselves in the direction of my unhappy susceptibility. [6]
Therefore the "establishment" went along with her to Rivervale, and the shy, modest little woman, who had dropped down into the country simplicity that she so dearly loved, greatly enjoyed the sensation that her coming produced. [4]
With Elsie, he was subdued and almost tender in his manner; with the few visitors whom they saw, shy and silent,--perhaps a little watchful, if any young man happened to be among them. [6]
The lad's greeting was a little shy until he saw that Gaston was cool and composed as usual --in effect, nothing had happened. [11]
But really, you want to let him take a shy at your palms once; it's worth twice the price of admission or your money's returned at the door. [5]
Breton fishermen are usually shy of storm to foolishness, and one or two of the crew urged the drunken skipper not to start, for there were signs of a south-west wind, too friendly to the Bay des Trepasses. [11]
Sometimes Augusta Maturin thought of Janet as a wildflower--one of the rare, shy ones, hiding under its leaves; sprung up in Hampton, of all places, crushed by a heedless foot, yet miraculously not destroyed, and already pushing forth new and eager tendrils. [9]
The damsel gave the student one shy glance in retiring; but it plucked the heart out of his bosom! [4]
He resembled Napoleon--not the later Napoleon, but the Bonaparte, lean, shy, laconic, who fought at Marengo; and this had startled the Cure in his pulpit, and the rest of the little coterie. [11]
And just as the dawn come in through the tall windows, a cat crawl out from somewhere, all ver' thin and shy, and walk across the floor; it make the room look so much alone. [11]
It was decided that the count must not go, but that if Louisa Ivanovna (Madame Schoss) would go with them, the young ladies might go to the Melyukovs', Sonya, generally so timid and shy, more urgently than anyone begging Louisa Ivanovna not to refuse. [2]
They belong to that middle region between science and poetry which sensible men, as they are called, are very shy of meddling with. [6]
It is said that a certain professor was always very shy of "Samson's Ribs," for fear the prophecy might be fulfilled in his person. [6]
Since coming to St. Saviour's he had been constant to one attraction, and he had not risked his chances with Zoe by response to the shy invitations of dark eyes, young and not so young, which met his own here and there in the parish. [11]
Then, presently, she spoke, and answered his shy, sorrowful thought before all else. [11]
The family fought shy of the questionings, and of course that was high testimony "if the Duchess was respectably born, why didn't they come out and prove it?--why did they, stick to that poor thin story about picking her up out of a steamboat explosion? [5]
We are very shy of asking questions of those who know enough to destroy with one word the hopes we live on. [6]
He is as shy as a woodchuck. [6]
He was as shy as a newspaper is when referring to its own merits. [5]
I was always shy and self- conscious and self-centred, and thought little of myself; and I needed deep love and confidence and encouragement to give out what was in me. [11]
She talked so sensibly, as it seemed to him, about it that he continued the conversation, and, shy as he was, became quite easy and confidential in her company. [6]
With her it seems that I was somewhat timid and shy, following her with rather anxious eyes, as if not quite certain whether or not she was dangerous. [6]
She does not seem to be shy, either. [6]
But remembering her relations with Nicholas in Voronezh she was shy about doing so. [2]
Her features were regular, her shy eye had the clearness of a forest pool. [9]
It was a rather delicate--looking, dark--haired youth, smooth-faced, somewhat shy and bashful in his ways, and evidently excited and nervous. [6]
The brothers exchanged pleased greetings from afar, but Marcus did not see Dada till she was close to him and stood, with a shy but radiant glance of intense delight, holding out the olive-wreath for his acceptance. [10]
A shy moon peeped at me between the trees, and was fantastically reflected in the water. [9]
The under-graduates of Oxford who hooted their admiration of the shy author when he appeared in the theater to receive his complimentary degree perhaps understood this, and expressed it in their shouts of "Diedrich Knickerbocker," "Ichabod Crane," "Rip Van Winkle. [4]
But it turned out that he had never read aloud to people, and was too shy to venture the attempt now. [5]
The individuals, however, of the same species vary in this respect, and some which were very shy never displayed their hinder ends. [1]
At the age of seven she was still shy with me, and retreated towards Maude. [9]
But we did not answer him, for he was a stranger and we were not used to strangers and were shy of them. [5]
The instinct of mothering was strong in her, and from the beginning she had taken the shy and delicate student under her wing, recognizing in him one of the physically helpless dedicated to a supreme function. [9]
It is a most trying position for a shy man, a modest man, a man accustomed to being like other people. [5]
They would be more shy of doing it if they knew that I recognize a tendency to rhyming as a common form of mental weakness, and the publication of a thin volume of verse as prima facie evidence of ambitious mediocrity, if not inferiority. [6]
The shy young man may provoke curiosity, but he does not always inspire respect. [4]
Osterhaut, she's the limit, that petticoat--so quiet and shy and don't-look-at-me, too, with eyes like brown diamonds. [11]
She is more like Miss ---- than any one in her ways--if you can fancy Miss ---- to have gone through suffering enough to have taken out every spark of merriment, and to be shy and silent from the habit of extreme, intense solitude. [14]
He had seen it through three changing seasons, with no human being near him, and only occasionally a shy, wandering elk, or a cloud of wild ducks whirring down the pass, to share his companionship with it. [11]
Julie saw Boris' indecision, and sometimes the thought occurred to her that she was repulsive to him, but her feminine self-deception immediately supplied her with consolation, and she told herself that he was only shy from love. [2]
The old knight Im Hoff was a somewhat stern man and shy of his kind, but scarce another had such great wealth, or was so highly respected in our town. [10]
Lave this, or I'll shy your lean carcass over the cataract, ye sniveling blaggard! [5]
Long after, when I went to France, I was reminded of the shy beauty of this part of my old home by the secluded pond of the Little Trianon. [9]
I wanted a horse that could shy, and this one fills the bill. [5]
He put out his own hand with an awkward, shy movement, picked a strawberry from her fingers, and thrust it in his mouth. [9]
And she obeyed his command, but this time only in shy submission. [10]
She said to him--for she of all was never shy of his stern ways: "Why is the grass always greenest there, Sergeant Fones? [11]
There was in him some antique touch of refinement and temperament which, in all his evil days and deeds and moments of shy nobility, could find its way into the souls of men with whom the world had had an awkward hour. [11]
But it embarrassed him a little, and he said, with a shy glance aside, "I don't know what you mean. [8]
She sat at her window watching the shy moon peeping over Coniston ridge, and she was thinking, to be exact, of how much could happen in one short day and how little in a long month. [9]
Her husband told her now that Secord was in trouble, and though he was far from being devout himself, he had a shy faith in the great sincerity of his wife. [11]
Her shy dependency, her innocent inquisitiveness, had searched out his remotest sympathies. [11]
I think we had "Aunt Sally," too,--the figure with a pipe in her mouth, which one might shy a stick at for a penny or two and win something, I forget what. [6]
The Tutor is good looking, intellectual, suspected of writing poetry, but a little shy, it appears to me. [6]
I had to go for Patty, indeed, after the party had begun, and to get the key to the wicket in the wall to take her in that way, so shy was she. [9]
We were always getting foul one o' t'other since I was big enough to shy a bit of turf at him across a dyke, and there isn't a spot on's body that I haven't hit, nor one on mine that he hasn't mauled. [11]
Malasha looked down from the oven with shy delight at the faces, uniforms, and decorations of the generals, who one after another came into the room and sat down on the broad benches in the corner under the icons. [2]
It suddenly passed from his wrinkled lips, and he sat down again; but now with an air as of shy ness and shame. [11]
What's in you, Forbes, to shy so at a good woman? [4]
A mighty shy fellow, they tell me. [6]
His shy blue eyes and stiff blond hair gave him a strange appearance in a hunting shirt. [9]
To-day their elders even felt shy and anxious in his presence. [10]
I was shy enough, I'll own; but I pulled aside the curtain of the tent to see again: and there was nothin' beyand for the eye. [11]
Ingolby was sharp enough to walk shy, until you came his way, and then he lost his underpinning. [11]
I had to do the talking, because he was shy, but I didn't mind it. [5]
I thought I detected an incense deliciously sweet; by no means overpowering, like the lily's, but more like the shy fragrance of the wood flower. [9]
The house certainly concerned itself very little about the shy and dark heiress in the Mavick box, having with regard to her only a moment's curiosity. [4]
Close behind the bull came Gorgo's mother, dressed with wreaths, walking slowly and timidly, with shy, downcast eyes-thinking perhaps of the anguish to come, and putting up a silent prayer. [10]
After I had been there about an ordinary lifetime, I saw a white canoe making toward me, and I knew that our shy young gentleman was coming to help me, and that we should become acquainted without an introduction. [6]
Many persons have been shy of these localities, who were in no danger whatever of meeting the fate threatened by the prediction. [6]
Though men might be shy of entering into a contract with Ault, they learned that what he said he would do he would do literally. [4]
I haf to be pooty shy abaout it, or he'll find aout th't I'm on his tracks. [6]
Why should we be more shy of repeating ourselves than the spring be tired of blossoms or the night of stars? [6]
She seemed shy, at once very near and very remote. [9]
They were shy at first, especially the third Joshua, but Honora captivated him by playing two sets of tennis in the broiling sun, at the end of which exercise he regarded her with a new-born admiration in his eyes. [9]
Good New-Englanders are as shy of owning it as they are of talking about religion. [4]
He was shy and proud with the few who made advances to him. [6]
After Venters's words and one quick look at Lassiter, her agitation stilled, and, though she was shy, if she were conscious of anything out of the ordinary in the situation, certainly she did not show it. [13]
Let us discriminate, and be shy of absolute proscription. [6]
Influenza had prevailed amongst the villagers, and where there was a real need for the presence of the clergyman's daughters, they were never found wanting, although they were shy of bestowing mere social visits on the parishioners. [14]
The letter from Alice was quite of another sort, a little shy in speaking of the story, but full of affection. [4]
The sorrel's shy a shoe, an' I've got to help hold the big devil an' put on another. [13]
I can get a margin off most any man in the West on a horse-trade, but I'd look shy about doing a trade with him. [11]
Cyprian was himself a little shy, and rather held to Myrtle through his sister than by any true intimacy directly with herself. [6]
We Americans are a little shy of confessing that any title or conventional grandeur makes an impression upon us. [6]
Once we saw a four-master; once a shy, silent steamer avoided us, westward bound; and once in mid-ocean, tossed on a sea sun-silvered under a rack of clouds, we overtook a gallant little schooner out of New Bedford or Gloucester--a forthfarer, too. [9]

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