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Meanings of timorous in inglês

Timid by nature or revealing timidity.

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Examples for "fearful"
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It must have done fearful things; there are little dints in it.
Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsany
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There is merely the fearful mist of error in which we live.
What to Do? Thoughts Evoked By the Census of Moscow
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A fearful rate of labor; a strange, grave, quaint, ascetic, rigorous life.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 / A Mag...
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The pressures on euro zone banks are another reason to be fearful.
Reuters
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And then that fearful Iphigenia sacrifice loomed in the distance as inevitable.
Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face
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He mastered his trepid nature as best he could, and stayed there.
Oberheim (Voices): A Chronicle of War
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Look at the poor little trepid creature, panting and helpless under the great eyes!
The Virginians
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The keen eye of the in-trepid Wayne flashed fire.
The Old Bell of Independence; Or, Philadelphia in 1776
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Now it was he who became trepid, not understanding.
The Mantooth
Usage of timorous in inglês
1
When I observed that a housebreaker was in general very timorous; JOHNSON.
Boswell's Life of Johnson / Abridged and edited, with an introdu...
2
The feeling in the city decidedly improved, although the Chinese were timorous.
The Story of the Philippines / Natural Riches, Industrial Resour...
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In some sense, the religion of the timorous and uninquisitive is true.
Jane Talbot
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I blew hot upon timorous counsels; I blow cold on rash ones.
White Lies
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There came presently a timorous knocking on the panels of the door.
The Grey Cloak
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Now it let fall a timorous blade of light along the floor.
The Black Wolf's Breed / A Story of France in the Old World and ...
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She is timorous and excited, elated and at the same time frightened.
The Human Drift
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She crept back to her room, a small timorous figure in white.
Main Street
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Though well housed, it is almost as timorous as the coral polyps.
The Confessions of a Beachcomber
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Under the sway of this frenzy, timorous men swelled into veritable paladins.
In the Valley
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The adrenaline flows out into the wee cowering timorous beastie's whole body.
Dexter is delicious
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It rendered him timorous for a moment before that enigmatic, lighted door.
Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard
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Everyone will be frightened-theirown side, all the hesitaters, and timorous folk.
Clerambault: The Story of an Independent Spirit During the War
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If unbelievers and doubters were more courageous, believers would be less timorous.
On Compromise
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The hyæna is of a timorous nature, seldom, if ever, showing fight.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
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Had Lord Mansfield been less timorous, Junius might have been less daring.
International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1,...
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