timorous

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timorous englannista suomeksi

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timorous englanniksi

1. Tending to be easily frightened; shy, timid.

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2. (RQ:Thomas More Workes)

3. (RQ:Livy Holland Romane Historie)

4. (RQ:Gibbon Roman Empire), vve are reduced to illuſtrate the partial narrative of (historian)|Zoſimus, by the obſcure hints of fragments and chronicles, by the figurative ſtyle of poetry or panegyric, and by the precarious aſſiſtance of the eccleſiaſtical vvriters, vvho, in the heat of religious faction, are apt to deſpiſe the profane virtues of ſincerity and moderation. Conſcious of theſe diſadvantages, vvhich vvill continue to involve a conſiderable portion of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, I ſhall proceed vvith doubtful and timorous ſteps.

5. (RQ:Burns Poems)

6. (RQ:Goldsmith History of the Earth)

7. (RQ:Prescott Ferdinand and Isabella)

8. (RQ:Macaulay History of England) repeatedly, at conjunctures such as have often inspired timorous and delicate women with heroic courage, showed a pusillanimous anxiety about his personal safety.

9. (RQ:Wells War of the Worlds)

10. (quote-journal); New York, N.Y.: Century Company|The Century Co.(nb...)|volume=LVIII|issue=6|page=957|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/sim_century-illustrated-monthly-magazine_1899-10_58_6/page/957/mode/1up|column=2|oclc=692496497|passage="Upon my word," said Micky, "only I was timorous i' puttin' the good people to too much throuble, I was on the point i' mentionin' the same meself."

11. (RQ:Joyce Ulysses)

12. (RQ:Orwell Burmese Days)

13. Feeling fear; afraid, fearful, frightened.

14. (RQ:Thomas More Workes) marketh well (..) mennes complexions within thẽ (quote-gloss), health, or ſicknes, good humours or badde, by which they be light hearted or lumpiſh, ſtrong hearted, or faynt & fieble of ſpirite, bolde and hardy, or timorous and fearefull of courage.

15. (RQ:William Browne Britannia's Pastorals)

16. (RQ:Donne Poems)

17. (RQ:Johnson Rambler) VVe approach them (quote-gloss) vvith ſcruple and heſitation; vve enter them, but enter timorous and trembling; and alvvays hope to paſs through them vvithout loſing the road of virtue, vvhich vve for a vvhile keep in our ſight, and to vvhich vve propoſe to return.

18. (RQ:Dickens Barnaby Rudge)

20. Fastidious in dressing.

21. Fired with intense feeling; passionate.

22. Hard to manage; difficult, tiresome.

23. Causing dread or fear; dreadful, terrible.

24. (quote-book), publishers to the of Glasgow|University &91;of Glasgow&93;|year_published=1906|pages=233–234|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/totalldiscourseo00lithuoft/page/233/mode/1up|oclc=1862075|passage=Well, having past halfe way downewards, wee came to the most scurrile and timorous Discent of the whole passage, where with much difficuty, I set safe the foure Germanes in our narrow Rode hewen out of the craggy Hill; (..)

25. Humble, modest; also, showing reverence; respectful, reverent, reverential.