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Once, as an experiment, I took a backwoodsman from the Smokies to Knoxville, and put him up at a good hotel. Was he self-conscious, bashful? Not a bit of it. When the waiter brought him a juicy tenderloin, he snapped: "I don't eat my meat raw!" It was hard to find anything on the long menu that he would eat.
Ah, then! moment so meet for the sweet question of questions, place so appropriate for the delicate, bashful, murmured popping thereof! -suddenly from the sward before, from the groups beyond, there floated to the ears of Richard Avenel an indescribable, mingled, ominous sound, a sound as of a general titter, a horrid, malignant, but low cachinnation. And Mrs.
He loved him with mad bursts of affection, with caresses and with all the bashful tenderness which was hidden in him, and which had never found an outlet, even at the early period of his married life, for his wife had always shown herself cold and reserved.
She knocked at the door, which she had not been accustomed to do, and then at his bidding entered the room. "Oh, Mary," he said laughing, "is that the way you begin, by knocking at the door?" "I think one knocks when one wants a moment of reprieve." "You mean to say that you are bashful in assuming your new privileges.
A near insanity already flits over her lovely face, in her half-closed eyes, always smiling with some heady, blissful, meek, bashful and unseemly smile, in her languorous, softened, moist lips, which she is constantly licking; in her short, quiet laugh the laugh of an idiot.
"Oh, Sally, Sally! that I should live to hear thee say such things!" "I? Oh, no! I was thinking of Betty. Thee knows that he would require some management, he is so bashful, and Betty " "I am not so sure, Sally."
I had been requested by the committee to furnish the poem for the occasion. As I was just from a first-class academy, where I had read the valedictory, it was taken for granted that I was the most likely one to "fill the bill." I accepted the proposition. To be bashful is a far different thing from being modest. I wrote the poem. I sat up nights to do it.
They were a couple of stout lads who still looked bashful, as became youths recently released from the seminary. Their firm healthy faces were covered with the first down of manhood, down which had, as yet, never known a razor. They were greatly discomfited by such a reception from their father, and stood motionless with eyes fixed upon the ground.
"Sometimes it surprises himself. But most of the mightiest made their own chance." "I know that. I'm going to make mine. Power is what I want an' it's what I'm goin' to have. But I've got to get away from here. Julius Cæsar couldn't do nothin' here." When Jefferson Edwardes came down stairs Mary, who had slipped timidly away, edged into the room, bashful and adorned.
Your cheek will be browner and your hand harder ere you see your mother again." "If my hand is not hard, it is ready." "Ready? Ready for what? For the hem of my lady's train?" "Ready to chastise insolence, sir," cried Alleyne with hashing eyes. "Sweet little coz!" answered the burly squire. "Such a dainty color! Such a mellow voice! Eyes of a bashful maid, and hair like a three years' babe!
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