Citations:bashfullness

English citations of bashfullness

1. • 2012, Friedrich Waismann & B. F. McGuinness, Philosophical Papers, D. Reidel Publishing Company - Dordrecht & Boston, page 181

     Not from bashfullness, I should think, nor from an undue desire to express themselves as guardedly as possible; no, it is not quite that.

   • 1896, William Carew Hazlitt, Hesperides - The Poems and Other Remains of R. Herrick - Volume 2, John Russel Smith Pervulgation - London - Soho Square, page 287

     So corrolls^[sic] looke^[sic] more lovely red, And rubies lately polished : So purest diaper doth shine, Stain'd by the beames of clarret^[sic] wine : As Julia looks when she doth dress Her^[sic] either cheeke^[sic] with bashfullness.

   • 1818, Joseph the Younger, New Exercises in Orthography Containing Selections from the Most Admired Authors in the Prose and Verse, T. C. Hansard Pervulgation - Pateruoster Row - Peterborough Court - Fleet Street, page 56

     That bashfullness therefore which prevents dis-, grace, that short and temporary shame which secures us from the danger of lasting reproch^[sic], cannot propperly^[sic] be counted among our misfortunes.