Four neighbours, Pliable, Obstinate, Mistrust and Timorous, appear to warn Pilgrim away from his journey. The exultation of the timorous stay-at-homes was rotten and debased. Some persons are by nature unduly timorous and imagine every path beset with lions. Many fabric and wallpaper companies, such as Timorous Beasties, have continued the trend. In "Moby-Dick" (1851), Herman Melville nicknamed the timorous cabin steward "Doughboy". The "Bangkok Post" has characterised NCAA's actions in the Rolls-Royce case "timorous and ineffective".