When Napoleon invades the Russian Empire during the Napoleonic wars, Boris Grushenko ( Allen ), a coward and pacifist scholar, is forced to enlist in the Russian Army, desperate and disappointed hearing the news that his cousin Sonja ( Keaton ) is to wed a herring merchant.

In Shakespeare's King Lear ( 1603 ), the Earl of Kent refers to Oswald as: "... nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch ..."

According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the word coward came into English from the Old French word coart ( modern French couard ), a combination of the word for " tail " ( Modern French queue, Latin cauda ) and an agent noun suffix.

Staff Sergeant Monfriez ( Lou Diamond Phillips ), however, tells Serling that Walden was a coward and that he was responsible for destroying the tank.

There seems to be some foreshadowing in Beowulf that Hroðulf will attempt to usurp the throne from Hroðgar's sons Hreðric and Hroðmund, a deed that also seems to be referred to in Saxo Grammaticus's Gesta Danorum ( Book 2 ), where we find: "... our king, who laid low Rorik, the son of Bok the covetous, and wrapped the coward in death.

He is a coward ( codenamed as the Jigsaw as he goes to pieces when a problem occurs ), becoming terrified at any sign of danger.

A lion with its tail between its hind legs is termed " couard " ( coward ), and has also been cited as a mark of infamy.

*-: burnie ( small burn ), feardie or feartie ( frightened person, coward ), gamie ( gamekeeper ), kiltie ( kilted soldier ), mannie ( man ), Nessie ( Loch Ness Monster ), postie ( postman ), wifie ( woman )

Snagglebit usually pals around with the short-in-stature Browniebit, who is something of a coward ( and is often teased by Snagglebit for this ), and Chip, who idolizes Lillibit's uncle, Dr. Snoozabit, and wants to be a doctor like him.

* Cleonymus: A frequent butt of jokes in other plays for his gluttony and cowardice, he figures here in a curse as the model of a coward ( 446 ), as a man who loves peace for the wrong reasons ( 673, 675 ) and as the father of a boy who sings lyrics by Archilochus in celebration of cowardice ( 1295 ).

He is a coward and his fur also has seemingly unlimited storage capacity which has on various occasions housed food, articles of furniture ( some bigger than himself ), and fellow Road Rovers.

In Mexico, if the hand gesture is slightly tilted it may mean " culo " ( anus ), used to refer to a coward.

Convinced now that Lawrence is a coward, the men angrily but efficiently complete their task, although " Pappy " Creighton ( Jeffrey Hunter ), whose brother is a U. S. Marine, sneaks onto the beach with Flannigan to leave a sign " welcoming " the Marines.

Angered and shamed by Sean's refusal to confront her brother and demand what is legally hers, she brands him a coward, and, despite living together, they are estranged as husband and wife.

A coward, he does not even bother to say goodbye to his new wife, disgusting Frank.

During the struggle to achieve power, Streicher was accused by the opposition of the Nazi party as being “ a liar, a coward, of having unsavory friends, mistreating his wife and of flirting with women ”.

Manuel, now an old man, is still regarded as a coward ; he spends his time painting the family ’ s cows watched over by his three granddaughters, the offspring of his son Ignacio Iriguíbel and his wife Madalen.

He is quoted as saying: " The Man who will not fight for the protection of his wife and children ... is a coward and deserves to be ill treated.

In 1936, Dill sought a divorce from his wife, the feminist suffragist Rosalie Gardiner Jones ; Dill claimed that Jones told his friends that he was " a political coward " for not seeking re-election in 1934, and that she buried dogs and garbage in the backyard.

They sit down to dinner with John's wife, Ricki, and John tells a story about his and his wife's trip to Spain, calling Ricki a coward, which upsets her.

The boys hear about what happened and decide he was a coward.

This dirty coward just admitted killing Arbuckle.

He had come because he could not live out his life feeling that he had been a coward.

Ultimately he realizes he cannot face his lover if it is as a coward.

Himmelstoß later joins them at the front, revealing himself as a coward who shirks his duties for fear of getting hurt or killed, and pretends to be wounded because of a scratch on his face.

If a guest was considered a ' coward ' for dropping out of the game, he could be branded as a ' deserter ' and not invited back to further drinking bouts.

Fastolf appears in Henry VI, Part I in which he is portrayed as an abject coward.

" Author Mark Lynas said " The only reason why this became an issue is that there is a small but vociferous group of climate ' sceptics ' lobbying against taking action, so the BBC is behaving like a coward and refusing to take a more consistent stance.

After fleeing the events surrounding Archangel and Uncanny X-Force like a coward, Bobby goes into hiding, living a life of debauchery.

Succeeding, she contemplates immortality, finding that safety from accidental death has become so valuable to her that she becomes a coward, cowering from all possible risk, seeing shelter in a hospital, and is only rescued from mindless panic by her husband finding her, realizing the source of her terror and rescuing her from immortality by claiming she has a slow growing tumor in an unreachable part of the body.

Glyndŵr has remained a notable figure in the popular culture of both Wales and England, portrayed in William Shakespeare's play Henry IV, Part 1 ( anglicised as Owen Glendower ) as a wild and exotic man ruled by magic and emotion (" at my nativity, The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets, and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shaked like a coward.

Far from being a saint, then, he was at best a fool, perhaps an anti-Semite and probably a coward.

As the Borg continue to assimilate, Worf suggests destroying the ship, but Picard angrily calls him a coward and vows to continue the fight.

After all, it is courage in the face of reality that distinguishes such natures as Thucydides from Plato: Plato is a coward in the face of reality -- consequently he takes refuge in the ideal: Thucydides is a master of himself -- consequently he is able to master life.

" He admits that he is a coward and cannot face her, and quickly leaves as Suzuki and Kate enter from the garden.

Many faulty etymologies have been devised for the word, including one by a British officer in 1789 who said it derived from the Cherokee word eankke, meaning " coward " – but no such word exists in Cherokee.

During his absence Segimerus was declared a coward by other Germanic chieftains because he had bowed down to Roman rule – a crime punishable by death under Germanic law.

: To coward soul or faithless heart the search were unavailing.

He is presented as an atheistic, hypocritical coward, a " perpetuall Dictator ", terrorising the Queen and ruining the whole country.

Bligh was painted as a coward for this but Duffy argues that if Bligh was hiding it would have been to escape and thwart the coup.

Although Esmeralda does not love him, and in fact believes him a coward rather than a true man — unlike Phoebus, he failed in his attempt to rescue her from Quasimodo — she takes pity on his plight and marries him.

" Olivier thought Sergius a humbug, a buffoon, a blackguard, a coward, ' a bloody awful part ' until Tyrone Guthrie said he would never succeed in the role until he learned to love Sergius.

He staged an alarming outburst, screaming at me, calling me a fool and a coward, accusing me of throwing away my career because I couldn't get on with a director.

I see I raised a coward instead.

His Malvolio was a swaggering and conceited fool, King John a superstitious and deceitful coward, and Macbeth a neurotic and self-torturing monarch.

Ashamed of what he has done for the love of Cleopatra, Antony reproaches her for making him a coward, but also sets this true and deep love above all else, saying " Give me a kiss ; even this repays me.