Meanings of more timorous in English

The more timorous of the crowd fled in wild disorder, spreading wilder rumours.

When the lacquey came back he wore an air more timorous than before.

These are more timorous than those of the Savage Rock, yet very thievish.

Sickness broke out on the camping-grounds, and the more timorous foresaw a great pestilence.

The latter rallied their more timorous companions with scant mercy.

He grew more timorous in the dark.

The more respectful, more timorous, more coy, and secret love of the Spaniards and Italians pleases me.

First, the more timorous packed up their valuable articles and fled into the country, up toward Canal Street.

Good women, unworldly of the world, they were perforce harder than the world, from being narrower and more timorous.

The more timorous states imagined themselves safe from the vengeance of the barbarian; the more resolute were overwhelmed with dismay.

No one was more timorous; but he seemed to think himself safe as long as he avoided contact with infected persons.

Had he been made of more timorous stuff the high school teacher would have closed his eyes for that awful instant.

The Fed's more timorous approach in recent months seems due to an increasingly hostile political environment combined with an improving economic one.

Meanwhile, the Lachen Phipun continued to threaten us, and I had to send back some of the more timorous of my party.

A child murderer burdened with the body of his victim could not have been more ill at ease, more timorous, more terrified.

It is braver than the bravest man; it is more timorous than the most fearful; it is fiercer than a lion, gentler than a lamb.