Things get so bad that Isabel has to put aside her shy manner and take bold action.

She had a shy manner and a gentle voice.

The strangest thing about them was their quietness and their almost shy good manners.

"I sort of in a shy manner proposed this opera," he said.

The mother, who attracted and welcomed happy young men to the house, was a little put out by Edwy's rather shy and serious manner.

The shy manner of her girlhood years had matured into a gentle dignity.

He seemed natural enough-handsome but not excessively so, manner a little shy.

A close associate of John Paul for nearly 30 years, he has a soft voice, a shy manner and a full head of white hair.

"Here's a live one," she thought, attracted to his shy, boyish manner.

He had a shy manner which evoked a fellow feeling in me.