...All, being derived from native testimony, is offered to the reader with diffidence, as needing verification by actual explorers... 
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
... “Miss,” growled Dan, with a clumsy endeavour to chase away her diffidence, “all we asks is fer you to sit near us fer a spell...
Various 「Stories by English Authors: Africa」
...No doubt it had grown out ofthe great poverty that often brought out diffidence and reticence toward strangers...
Various 「Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 3, May 1906」
... The man who never before has beheld the swarm of a populous hive must regard this riotous, bewildering spectacle with some apprehension and diffidence...
Maurice Maeterlinck 「The Life of the Bee」
...A hundred years have passed since Laplace, with some diffidence, setforth his hypothesis as to the mode of formation of the solar system...
Robert Stawell Ball 「The Story of the Heavens」
...Bass feels the utmost diffidence...
David Collins 「An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Vol. 2」
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