What is "shying away"

Usage examples of "shying away".

Now Washoe was shying away from gunfights and trying to settle itself down to an orderly existence.

Now we looked into each other's eyes without shying away--for me as if for the first time, that scary sacred time when I a boy first looked into her a girl's eyes without shying away--and I saw her eyes soften from a woman's to a girl's, and glow a little with tears, as did mine.

They rmilled around on the sidewalk, instinctively shying away from Kovac, smelling cop.

He saw now the shimmer and dance of aery spirits flocking around him, and shying away from Liath.

I walked into the parlor, shying away from his touch but not resolute enough to push him off.

Pilgrim sniffed around it, shying away abruptly when a nose came too close.

Below, the attackers did the same, some shying away warily while othersincluding most of the ram-pusherssimply wheeled and fled.

Below, the attackers did the same, some shying away warily while others—.