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Sentences starting with shyness

Shyness seized her, a shyness that bordered on panic. [9]

Sentences ending with shyness

A young man will naturally enough be ashamed of his shyness. [6]
He was not sure, but he thought it quite possible that she had seen him coming, and he put her embarrassment down to shyness. [11]
I found it rather a flattering shyness. [9]
Janet would grow hot from shyness. [9]
And for the first time in her life with me she showed shyness. [9]
After that she came to all my birthdays, and lost some of her shyness. [9]
She was a born tease; she loved bright and beautiful things; she was a keen judge of human nature, and she had buoyant spirits, which, however, were counterbalanced by moments of extreme timidity, or, rather, reserve and shyness. [11]

Sentences containing shyness two or more times

But he broke it down; broke down, too, the shyness accompanying it, the shyness and solemnity emphasized in them by contact with hardship and poverty, with the stark side of life they faced at home. [9]

More example sentences with the word shyness in them

He spoke of you even at the very last," she went on, turning her eyes from Pierre to her companion with a shyness that surprised him for an instant. [2]
Blushing, and confused with shyness, she remained standing by Caesar's seat; and though she only ventured to raise her eyes now and then for a stolen look, she felt herself the object of a hundred curious, defiant, bold, or contemptuous glances. [10]
A certain interest was aroused, although her shyness towards me was not altered. [9]
She heard the warning voice of her companion, she saw the crowd staring at her, she had, no doubt, a brief struggle with her maidenly shyness, but she carried out her purpose. [10]
My complacency had vanished; suddenly I had become the aggressor, if only I had known how to "aggress"; but in her presence I was seized by an accursed shyness that paralyzed my tongue, and the things I had planned to say were left unuttered. [9]
And as she turned he surprised in her eyes a shyness he had never seen in them before. [9]
One would have to travel far to match their ease and sociability and animation and sparkle and absence of shyness and self-consciousness. [5]
My father, unable to overcome his fatal shyness by any effort of will, had not the courage to withstand this unfairness until he was called home by his mother for his twenty-fifth birthday, and made use of the elixir. [10]
What would be the effect upon the masculine character and comfort if this shyness should become general, as it may in a contingency that is already on the horizon? [4]
It may not show on the surface, but the shyness is there. [5]
And the glance she presently gave him seemed to partake of the shyness of the wild thing. [9]
On the whole, she enjoyed her visit very much, in spite of her shyness, and the difficulty she always experienced in meeting the advances of those strangers whose kindness she did not feel herself in a position to repay. [14]
Overcome by shyness, she drew away from him. [9]
One of the results--it will be remembered of religion as I was taught it was a pernicious shyness, and even though I had found a mentor and confessor, I might have hesitated to unburden myself. [9]
Would it not render that sporadic shyness of which we have spoken epidemic? [4]
A curious shyness possessed Tim now, a thing which he had never felt in his life. [11]
Hastings was suddenly overcome with the shyness of youth. [9]
Her shyness wore off by degrees. [4]
A sudden sense of shyness possessed him. [11]
At the mention of Princess Mary he experienced a feeling of shyness and even of fear, which he himself did not understand. [2]
Perhaps she had not that kind of maidenly shyness, sometimes called conventional propriety, sometimes described as 'mauvaise honte' which a woman of the world would have shown. [4]
This, I had no doubt, was my fault, and due to the incomprehensible shyness her presence continued to inspire. [9]
This gave me new light; I took his advice, got over my shyness, and my speech flowed like oil. [10]
And such was Natasha, with her surprise, her delight, her shyness, and even her mistakes in speaking French. [2]
Andre and another lifted me out, and they gathered around me,--these kind people and devoted friends,--Antoinette calling me, with exquisite shyness, by name; Madame de St. Gre giving me a grave but gentle welcome, and asking anxiously how I stood the journey. [9]
She did not know how she was going to be met now, and a womanly shyness held her back. [11]
So she laid it down on the workbench, and, overcome by a sudden shyness, retreated toward the door. [9]
I have observed in many of the more refined animals this sort of shyness, and reluctance to give trouble, which excite our admiration when noticed in mankind. [4]
The laugh had in it an exquisite note of shyness, which he liked. [9]
To put it in another way, it is English friendliness with the English shyness and self-consciousness left out. [5]
She was almost impelled to tell him why, in her excursions to the various quarters, she had found Hampton interesting, but a shyness born of respect for the store of knowledge she divined in him restrained her. [9]
She felt as if she must return to her lover and tell him herself what she had been forced to do in these last days, but maidenly shyness restrained her, till at last Andreas came out. [10]
Mr. Cable and I read from books of ours, to show him what an easy trick it was; but his immortal shyness was proof against even this sagacious strategy, so we had to read about Brer Rabbit ourselves. [5]
This shyness is, however, so exceptional as to be suspicious. [4]
The shyness he had used with the Colonel, and the taciturnity practised on his fellow-clerks, he slipped off like coat and waistcoat for the battle. [9]
If asked to explain his conduct, his shyness would not allow him to tell the truth, and lack of invention and practice would find him incapable of contriving a lie that would wash. We worked at the troublesome problem until three in the morning. [5]
Of course she couldn't have expected him to remain and talk about it; but this unexpected exhibition of shyness concerning his work--so admired by the world's choicer spirits--thrilled yet amused her, and made her glow with a new understanding. [9]
We saw that Brown's shyness would not allow him to give up the lap-robe. [5]
No, I don't believe it is much more than an extreme case of shyness, connected, perhaps, with some congenital or other personal repugnance to which has been given the name of an antipathy. [6]
She would gaze at him questioningly, her eyes like blue flower cups, a strange little mixture of solemnity and bubbling mirth, of shyness and impulsiveness. [9]
He reached out and took her hand with a strange shyness, and a self- consciousness which was alien to his nature. [11]
She noticed this and attributed it to his general kindness and shyness, which she imagined must be the same toward everyone as it was to her. [2]
This was on account of Brown's character--great generosity and kindliness, but complicated with unusual shyness and diffidence, particularly in the presence of ladies. [5]
I hesitated just a second, swept by the heat wave that follows sudden shyness, embarrassment, a sense of folly it is too late to avert. [9]
My shyness takes a peculiar phase. [5]
He then had a good deal of the shyness that was just pronounced enough to make him interesting, and which did not entirely wear off till he left college. [6]

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