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

Somehow the finding this rare, shy thing decking her path toward labour and enterprise spoke to her soul of success.

From The Power and the Glory by Keller, Arthur Ignatius

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 Jewett, Sarah Orne

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