shy thing
Example Sentences
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And the serpent himself, a shy thing, appeared only at rare intervals, always at twilight.
From Time Magazine Archive
When Ob and me met you, honey, you was such a shy thing.
From "Missing May" by Cynthia Rylant
Even if the shy thing had fluttered off at her approach, it had gone back again, and now watched her steadily as if to be ready to fly, yet not really frightened.
From Betty Leicester A Story For Girls by Sarah Orne Jewett
A footpath is of slow growth, and it is a wild, shy thing that is easily scared away.
From The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton by John Burroughs
Her adopted child is a slip of a girl, slim and light, with the ways of a shy thing of the woods.
From Lotus Buds by Amy Carmichael
