Meanings of own timidity in English

As she said the word she paused, frightened by her own timidity.

And as he asked it, something like surprise at his own timidity crossed his mind.

Well, this is leap-year, and I will not see you sacrificed to your own timidity.

Charlotte was mortified by her own timidity.

For who can save himself from his own timidity, and who can protect himself from his own courage?

Partly to clear this, partly to find some support for his own timidity, Necker called the Notables together again.

The noise they made drew everybody out to see them, and the superstitious women infected the King with their own timidity.

He switches seamlessly from Oprah's brassiness to his own timidity, hunching his shoulders to mimic a tortoise retreating into its shell.

Failing to override my own timidity and taking the easiest path was my biggest flaw, and this time it had been fatal.

I had got into a net through my own timidity and weakness, and I did not see how to get out of it.

The wind was in my favour, and I found so little trouble in getting across that I began to laugh at my own timidity.

And then, with an inward rebuke to her own timidity, she dismounted and hurried along the weed bordered walk, and knocked at the door.

Whereupon, remembering that she was beautiful, and that her beauty had a way of troubling men, Lilla felt her own timidity transmuted into joy.

She felt a whit ashamed of her own timidities and delicacies.