shamefast

How to use shamefast in a sentence

• She is αιδοιη, shamefast; and her adventure is to her a bitter sorrow (199, 200).

  The Homeric Hymns | Andrew Lang

• How can he be shamefast wh he is growen vp, which being a litel inft was begon to be fashioned to lecherye?

  The Education of Children | Desiderius Erasmus

• In the scuffle one loses both his hat and skull-cap and flees shamefast from the scene.

  Pipefuls | Christopher Morley

• Then she arose, and stole to herd her sheep; with shamefast eyes she went, but her heart was comforted within her.

  Theocritus, Bion and Moschus | Theocritus

• The next moment her eyes were bent shamefast upon the floor.

  Wandering Heath | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch