| 1. | This timidity touched Konstantin. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 2. | His brother's timidity obviously softened Nikolay. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 3. | She smiled at that "dear," and at the timidity with which he glanced at her. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 4. | But this occasional timidity is characteristic of almost all herding creatures. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 5. | Stepan Arkadyevitch made an effort and struggled with the timidity that had come over him. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 6. | What was it that stood in his way His unfortunate timidity He wished to vindicate himself in some way, to assert his manhood. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
| 7. | At the end of it I sat, tempering nuts with a cigarette, regretting Ogilvy's rashness, and denouncing the shortsighted timidity of the Martians. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
| 8. | Fear or timidity is the prolongation of life and preservation of its instruments. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |
| 9. | His natural timidity rendered him accessible to the acceptance of superstitions in a certain degree. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |