He's a timid soul, and he no doubt put the notion out of mind for fear of what the consequences would be.

"I should throw them out now, Pandora," he said in a voice that couldn't have threatened the most timid soul.

She is a timid soul and fears for her life.

Some timid souls will suggest that critics of the Bush administration hold off until the war is over.

We are, these timid souls assert, making the rules after the crimes were perpetrated.

There can be no doubt that it does enable many a timid soul to get through life with a certain recklessness.

There's something about an individual timid soul that is much more timid than a group of them.

You are, without question, far better men than those timid souls who refused to fight in that faraway place, so long ago.

But Philip, a gentle and even timid soul, would leave if something were not done.

"And I thought you were a timid soul."