In a little while, Helen stared at him shyly, hesitating.

Those I passed wanted to look at Pete, though most of them just stared shyly and did not approach.

She stared shyly at the floor.

A ragged child in bare feet stood outside an open door, finger in mouth, staring shyly at them.

When Karen P. Hughes, the Bush confidante, came to Cedar Rapids to praise Mr. Leach at a local news conference, he stared shyly at the floor, like a man with indigestion of the soul.

What a lovely thing he looked, staring shyly in at the window.

He evokes the farmers and their families not just in sleep but at rest, sitting on a porch, or staring shyly and saying nothing.