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Definition of Shynesses
1. shyness [n] - See also: shyness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shynesses
Literary usage of Shynesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of English Literature by Hippolyte Taine (1897)
"You will not cease to dwell on the pretty shynesses of I he betrothed, the tears
of the mothers, the tears of all the ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1849)
"But by the time ten years of matrimony had gone over the head of the elder brother,
one of the shynesses, the unpleasantnesses, so unaccountable, ..."
3. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1882)
"little need to set out the army of instincts, doubts, shames, and shynesses which
kept a girl who had never made a confidence since she was born recoil from ..."
4. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"... and divine Pistils, and petals crystalline; All purities of shady springs,
All shynesses of film-winged things That fly from tree-trunks and bark-rings; ..."
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