"Shamefast" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... it was like first love, this adoration of Oxford; shamefast, shy of its own raptures; so shy, indeed, that when he put on his hat and walked out into the streets he could not pluck up courage to ask his way. Some of the colleges he recognised from his father's description; of one or two he discovered the names by peeping through their ...
— The Ship of Stars • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch |
