1 Tom was tugging at a button-hole and looking sheepish.
2 Well, I felt sheepish enough to be took in so, but I wouldn't a been in that ringmaster's place, not for a thousand dollars.
3 As she had intended, Gerald was startled by the sound; then he recognized her, and a look both sheepish and defiant came over his florid face.
4 He flushed and grinned embarrassedly and in general looked like a shy and sheepish boy.
5 He was, now, a huge, strong fellow of six feet high, broad in proportion, and round-shouldered; but with a simpering boy's face and curly light hair that gave him quite a sheepish look.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 3. I HAVE A CHANGE 6 One night soon after this, he tapped on Scarlett's door long after the house was asleep and sheepishly exhibited a leg peppered with small shot.
7 In fact, he had said, sheepishly, that he expected to get married in the spring.
8 He had tried to please her, then, had touched her by sheepishly wearing a colored band on his straw hat.
9 A very little boy stood up and sheepishly recited, "You'd scarce expect one of my age to speak in public on the stage," etc.
10 "Well, we're almost the last tonight," said one of the men sheepishly.
11 Mr. Bounderby looked very hard at the good lady in a side-long way that had an odd sheepishness about it.
12 Although Mr. Bounderby carried it off in these terms, holding the door open for the company to depart, there was a blustering sheepishness upon him, at once extremely crestfallen and superlatively absurd.