| I have considered carefully whether one should cling timorously to the coastline in search of a defining principle before being willing to right such a wrong. |
| Fledgeby again made his small eyes smaller, as he glanced with great complacency at Twemlow, who was timorously tapping the table with a folded letter. |
| But, draining the last drops of their liquor, they stole timorously homeward, and answered not again if the rude mob reviled them in the street. |
| The pedestrian caught his breath and began to look timorously out into the snow cloud ahead. |
| The Cold War and the nuclear threat got us into the habit of timorously cowering at the prospect of any great action. |
| And he timorously puts up his hand and asks the drill sergeant when they get their rifles. |
