Cowards

Examples

• 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.
• Cowards and slaves wear no trappings. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• That is the way old market women and caf?cowards talk. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• They'll spare the women; but my man tells me that they have taken an oath to give no quarter to the men--the dastardly cowards. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The cowards who fled from Madrid still govern there. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Madmen, on the other hand, are generally cowards to those who act with firm courage. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Some of the magistrates are now well frightened, and, like all cowards, show a tendency to be cruel. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Most of them MUST be indirect, they are such cowards. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

Typed by Emile