To speak with timorous caution
timorous of venturing an opinion.
He is a reclusive, timorous creature.
timorous little mouse; in a timorous tone; cast fearful glances at the large dog.
We'll send new cadres to ginger up timorous local committee
Except that I remember them both to have been--like myself--timorous of highwaymen, and the prisoner has not a timorous air.'
Someone who is addicted to the cruelty of devouring timorous vegetarians, their heirs and assigns.
I looked with timorous joy towards a stately house: I saw a blackened ruin.
In the darkness the timorous wolves crept into the living-room.
Some delegates believe the final declaration is likely to be too timorous.
Do, with like timorous accent and dire yell as when, by night and negligence, the fire is spread in populous cities.
In 1769 the first of the timorous poets, Thomas Gray, was on the scene shuddering pleasurably at the mountains’ “dreadful bulk”.
Then, for a brief agony of time, the man sat in an ugly little parlor, and he tried to talk while the two women stared at him with a dull, bewildered hostility, a sullen, timorous restraint.
She glanced from under her brows with lovely eyes at her husband, and her face wore the timorous, deprecating look of a dog when it faintly but rapidly wags its tail in penitence.
