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He waited with the utmost patience, his smile, subtly softened but still unmistakably humorous, hovering at the corner of his mouth. And so after a moment, half-laughing, with a face on fire, she reached out, took the red head between her hands, and bestowed a very small, shy kiss upon his cheek.
He was shy, astonished, and frightened, and did not know what to say. The girl came up to him, took his hand in hers, holding it for a moment, and then kissed it. "I did not think you would come yourself," she said. "Of course I have come myself. My girls are at home, and will receive you to-night." She said nothing further then, but again raised his hand and kissed it.
"One of the fellows told me the parson has never been to sea before; so, my boy, of course, he doesn't know he's got to wait till the cap'en gives the order for service to be held. Those shore Johnnies have got a lot to be knocked into them! He doesn't know Farmer as we do, or he'd fight shy of taking a liberty with him!"
I am sure I should be very happy to help to carry the boughs if the man won't go to the house, the house must go to the man." "What a fine cock-shy he would make!" said Master Blubberlips. "O, I should so like to see it," said the lady. "It will be the first time he has been made shy in his life."
Youth is always more serious than middle age, for the same reason. A man who is at home in the world laughs and is gay; he who is shy and doubtful scowls. It is the God-fearing who are not afraid, it is the man-fearing who are awkward and uncomfortable. The first thing to be afraid of is oneself, but after oneself is conquered why be afraid to let him loose!
Among the small salmon-flies and loch-flies which will fill his book, the angler will do well to have a store of very small trout-flies at hand, while experience has shown that even the dry fly will kill sea-trout on occasion, a thing that is worth remembering where rivers are low and fish shy.
The damsel gave the student one shy glance in retiring; but it plucked the heart out of his bosom! "He inquired about them after they had gone.
They never stray far from camp." Bartley watched Cheyenne untwist a piece of soft rope and make a pair of serviceable hobbles. "Now he'll travel easy and git enough grass to keep him in shape. And them hobbles won't burn him. Any time you're shy of hobbles, that's how to make 'em."
John, the shy, woman-hating creature, who had received the news of Louie's expected advent in a spirit of mingled irritation and depression who, after his first startled look at her as she passed through the shop, seemed to David to have fled the sight of her whenever it was possible!
She was smiling affectionately at a point straight before her, and Felicia, turning to see to whom that smile was addressed, saw Paul de Géry replying to Mademoiselle Joyeuse's shy and blushing salutation. "Do you know each other, pray?" "Do I know Monsieur Paul! I should think so. We talk of you often enough. Has he never told you?" "Never. He is terribly sly "
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