Without much conviction

Usage examples of timidly.

Blanche looked timidly at her father, who continued to converse on the subject of the chace, but whose countenance was somewhat expressive of anxiety, and who often turned his eyes towards that part of the hall nearest the gate.

She brought him up to me half proudly, half timidly, pushing him before her, and begging me with one of her dovelike glances to be very polite.

Sally showed the exact spot, where Erick had descended over the rock, and Edi began the descent a little timidly.

Duchess, timidly, her upraised face and Paris hat well matched by the gay poinsettias, the delicate eucharis and arums with which the table was now covered.

As soon as she saw me she introduced me to him, saying timidly that this was the nephew of whom she had spoken, the same that wished to marry her.

That first night, before we began, she inquired timidly whether I would desire children.

One of the wives stepped timidly through the crowd, carrying a laquered letter box.

Pierre looked at her timidly over his spectacles, and like a hare surrounded by hounds who lays back her ears and continues to crouch motionless before her enemies, he tried to continue reading.

When she timidly asked him where she could see to her private needs, he walked her into the woods where the others could not see them, and he mocked her embarrassment.

His innocent angel seemed adept at tantalizing him boldly in one breath and timidly seducing his reassurance in the next.

She took them timidly, but seemed convinced that I was not imposing on her.

The children stole timidly back among their elders, and bristling dogs fawned up to him and sniffed suspiciously.

The picture of these pursuits was what Miss Overmore took refuge in when the child tried timidly to ascertain if her father were disposed to feel he had too much of her.

If the leading theologians of Christendom, such as Anselm, Calvin, and Grotius, have so thoroughly repudiated the original Christian and patristic doctrine of the atonement, and built another doctrine upon their own uninspired speculations, why should our modern sects defer so slavishly to them, and, instead of freely investigating the subject for themselves from the first sources of Scripture and spiritual philosophy, timidly cling to the results reached by these biassed, morbid, and over sharp thinkers?

But the information was pleasantly echoed about, as the ranks of the Servi parted and an old man, with a face full of benignity, came forward, holding the hand of a boy with blue eyes and light hair, who walked timidly with him to the pulpit on the left, where the older man encouraged the shrinking disputant to mount the stair.