retiring person

He is a very retiring person who was being thrust into the limelight.

She was a shy, retiring person who would rather sit around the kitchen table than go out in public.

For such a retiring person, Burton had no problem journeying with him into the madness of the macabre, the rigid body-contoured corsets, the gold-painted fox-skeleton wrap, the bondage pieces, the kimono-style parachute, the antlered bridal gowns.

Almost everyone, the King not excepted, loved him, yet, while both polite and useful, there was not a more retiring person in the court.

The thought came to Ruth Fielding and would not be put away, that this small, retiring person known as Signor Aristo might be a woman.