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
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 Carmichael, Amy
There was Speedwell, the young naturalist ... a queer, stooping, gentle, shy thing, who talked almost as an idiot would talk till he got on his favourite topic of bird and beast and flower.
From Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Kemp, Harry
Money was a rare, shy thing, except to an amazing few who accumulated it by some obscure, magnetic attraction; and opportunities of acquisition were not to be missed.
From The Summons by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)
