shy thing

Her adopted child is a slip of a girl, slim and light, with the ways of a shy thing of the woods.

Somehow the finding this rare, shy thing decking her path toward labour and enterprise spoke to her soul of success.

Why, to get a peep at the shy thing I'd clamber up to the tip-top o' Taygetus.

Come to me at once, and we will break the creature's shell together, and see what it is like, the shy thing!