Coward

Examples

• And you, last night, thinking about how you and your grandfather were so terrific and your father was a coward. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Forced to fly her husband's roof by this insult, the coward had pursued his revenge by taking her child from her. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• God forgive me, Mr. Sedley, but you are no better than a coward, Mrs. O'Dowd said, laying down the book. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• From one year of war thou has become lazy, a drunkard and a coward. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Are you so afraid of one old man as to let him go, you coward? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He's a coward, sir—a miserable coward! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Coward, Pablo said bitterly. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The nervous terrors and fearful visions which had scared us during the spring, continued to visit our coward troop during this sad journey. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• He was a coward, from head to foot; and showed his dastardly nature through his sullenness and mortification, as much as at any time of his mean life. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Shoot the coward down, sir, Sedley roared. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• One does not call John Carter coward and liar thus lightly, and Zat Arras should have known it. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• You treat a man as coward because he has a tactical sense. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• It's you who are the coward, he repeated, catching her hands in his. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• At bottom I am not a coward. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Under the shelling men had been cowards and had run. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• You are cowards. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Milton is not the place for cowards. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• In these cases the colonels were constitutional cowards, unfit for any military position; but not so the officers and men led out of danger by them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• You will give me the benefit of your self-possession, and not leave me at the mercy of agitated cowards? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Conscience made cowards of us both. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• If HE'D been here, she said, those cowards would never have dared to insult me. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• De Bracy and I will instantly go among these shuffling cowards, and convince them they have gone too far to recede. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Shame on ye, false cowards! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• You big dogs are all cowards, he said, addressing the animal contemptuously, with his face and the dog's within an inch of each other. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Fire, cowards, if you are alive, he shouted. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• And we dare not; poor cowards that we are! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• By their works ye shall know them, for dirty liars and cowards, who daren't stand by their own actions, much less by their own words. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Cowards skulk about the dead, pretending that they are fulfilling a duty, and many an army before now has been lost from this love of plunder. Plato. The Republic.
• Here there is nothing but idiots and cowards. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.

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