timorously

She lay perfectly still and quiet, and now and then heaving a deep sigh, and timorously opening her eyes.

His voice sank to a whisper, and he glanced about timorously.

"You'd better not go over there, Charles," we advised him timorously.

Agnes walked timorously through into the square, empty, gas-lit hall, and looked round her with distaste.

Still the rebellion would have crouched timorously and silently on the ground if it had not found a support in the nobility.