Timorous Quotes
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For never yet one hour in his bed Have I enjoyed the golden dew of sleep, But have been waked by his timorous dreams.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Richard III (c. 1591), Act IV, scene 1, line 83.
Not only had they behaved dutifully and without apparent concern for their own safety, but they also offered the hope that not all of the younger male generation were venial, lazy, proud, irreligious, inconsiderate, self-indulgent, weak-willed, and timorous.
steve turner— p. 193 (The Band That Played On (Thomas Nelson, 2011))
Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam; purging and unscaling her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous birds, with those also that love thetwilight, flutterabout, amazed at what she means.
john milton— 1644 Areopagitica: a speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing.
