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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.

Clearly, he's a coward.

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.

As he admitted in the Papers, Flashman was a coward, who would flee from danger if there was any way to do so, and on some occasions collapsed in funk.

Of course, Flashman arrived at the Fort by accident, collapsed in terror rather than fight, was forced to stand and show fight by his subordinate, and was ' rumbled ' for a complete coward.

However most of these acts of ' bravery ' were performed only when he had absolutely no choice, and to do anything else would have resulted in his being exposed as a coward and losing his respected status in society, or being shot for desertion.

When he could act like a coward with impunity, he invariably did.

But the publication of Tom Brown's Schooldays with its portrayal of Flashman as a coward and bully spoiled his satisfaction.

Liza, a " coward " according to the third person narrator, is frightened because Mrs Blakeston is strong whereas she herself is weak.

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.

After the show, he watches as the thugs slash a tire of his car ; then Buzz challenges him to a knife fight, in which Jim is loathe to take part until the gang taunts Jim as a " chicken " ( coward ).

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

Still, he hopes to avoid suicide partly because his father, whom he views as a coward, committed suicide.

Essex claimed that he was only impotent with her and had been perfectly capable with other women, adding that she " reviled him, and miscalled him, terming him a cow and coward, and beast.

This Iolaus had been a coward and fearfully served as jester to the Sovereign ( Hercules ' double ).

The Zulu attitude towards firearms was that: " The generality of Zulu warriors, however, would not have firearms-the arms of a coward, as they said, for they enable the poltroon to kill the brave without awaiting his attack.

He was the son of Panopeus and had the reputation for being a coward.

In the first place you attacked me before all the Danaans and said that I was a coward and no soldier ...'" Achaean council-Book IX

" 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.

Hector, seeing that they had turned back from battle, called Diomedes a " woman and a coward " and promised to slay him personally.