coward

" He therefore responded in kind in Have With You To Saffron-Walden ( 1596 ) with various observations on Barnes: he was a bad poet, he had dreadful dress sense (..." getting him a strange pair of Babylonian britches, with a codpiece as big as a Bolognian sausage ...") and had been a coward on the field of battle during the wars in France.

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

Many Peruvians took this as a coward act and excuse for his inability to govern in the middle of the war, which led Nicolás de Piérola to stage a successful coup d ' état and later declared himself commander-in-chief on December 23, 1879.

I see I raised a coward instead.

If she'd let him fight his own battles when he was young, he wouldn't be a coward today!

The Cauldron of Dyrnwch the Giant ( Pair Dyrnwch Gawr ): if meat for a coward were put in it to boil, it would never boil ; but if meat for a brave man were put in it, it would boil quickly ( and thus the brave could be distinguished from the cowardly ).

Later Maturin quotes the Earl of Rochester, " Every man would be a coward if he durst " ( which he would have seen in Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets.

When giving accounts of bravery or resilience on the part of the Baudelaires, Snicket often calls himself a coward either explicitly or otherwise.

* A coward can't conquer anything, because he can't conquer himself.

He excels at escaping from the enemy when all seems lost making him intelligent in a sort, but also a bit of a coward compared to other orkz, yet his combat ability is enough to take out an entire company of Imperial Guardsmen with no aid.

She also would often speak her mind even if it meant offending others ; for example she called a potentially dangerous enemy, Sao Feng, a coward right to his face.

In that book, the author referred to Commodore Schley as a “ caitiff, poltroon and coward .” The proofs of the book had been read and approved by various naval officers, among them Rear Admiral Sampson.

Whatever his other faults, James does not seem to have been a coward nor ( as Pitscottie claimed ) did he avoid conflict or " manly pursuits ".

:" I refused to fire, and swore that none but a coward would, for by this time hundreds of women and children were coming towards us, and getting on their knees for mercy.

He is as coward as Sabandija and often sees life threatening situation alongside of latter because of the whims of Captain Alma Negra.

Again, Lowell considered suicide, writing to a friend that he thought " of my razors and my throat and that I am a fool and a coward not to end it all at once.

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.

O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!

`` Just let me meet up with that damned bushwhackin' coward face-to-face ''!!

When first offered the project, Cagney's agent was convinced that his star property would never consent to playing a role where he would be depicted as an abject coward being dragged to his execution.

" Nestor responded, " Son of Tydeus, though Hector say that you are a coward the Trojans and Dardanians will not believe him, nor yet the wives of the mighty warriors whom you have laid low.

Fraser decided to write Flashman's memoirs, in which the school bully would be identified with an " illustrious Victorian soldier ": experiencing many 19th-century wars and adventures and rising to high rank in the British Army, acclaimed as a great soldier, while remaining by his unapologetic self-description " a scoundrel, a liar, a cheat, a thief, a coward — and oh yes, a toady.

In Toronto, Peuchen was deemed a coward largely because of his self-serving attitude, and speculation gathered that his expected promotion to Lieutenant-Colonel in The Queen's Own Rifles would not be awarded.

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

This dirty coward just admitted killing Arbuckle.