Lexicographical Neighbors of Retiringness
Literary usage of Retiringness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"So much, in fact, did she retain what he somewhere calls 'constitutional
retiringness,' that he Tentures to doubt whether, if a stranger, looking in upon ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1866)
"... emulation is wholesome and desirable; but as it is quite out of place among
girls, whose sphere is the home circle and whose grace a sweet retiringness, ..."
3. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by George Saintsbury (1896)
"Indeed the note, some would say the fault, of Keble's whole life was an almost
morbid retiringness, which made him in 1827 refuse even to compete with ..."
4. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1900) by George Saintsbury (1906)
"Indeed the note, some would say the fault, of Keble's whole life was an almost
morbid retiringness, which made him in 1827 refuse even to compete with ..."
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