You think it wrong to tell tales, and yet quite right that innocent people should suffer for things done by these miserable cowards!" "No, sir," answered Diggory: "we've come now to try to get Oaks out of a scrape; though wewere afraid" "Afraid of what?" "Nothing, sir.

"Little coward, he has run away," she said, laughing; and having satisfied her curiosity, turned to retrace her steps,no easy task to one ignorant of the way, for vault after vault opened on both sides, and no path was discernible.

This old man, notwithstanding all his boasting in the absence of immediate danger, was the veriest coward when danger was present; and if he had been in the place of young William, he would have halted with the greatest alacrity.

Now he was again what he always really was at heart, a contemptible coward.

The careful coward.

A dead hero serves creation better than a live coward.

She was extremely afraid, and considered herself an abject coward, but she was determined to the point of desperation.

Fearless as he was before bright bayonets, he was an utter coward before bright ideas.

I have been an awful coward about it, putting it off and putting it off.

his veins a horse shall drain, Nor shall the passive coward once complain.

"Boastful, empty coward!

I hope yer don't think I'm a damn coward, Mr. Carlyle?" "Oh, no, Tom.

Was it the loss of the money, think ye, that made the wretched coward, your husband, shoot himself?

And yet, if thou tellest me, that all her strength was owing to my weakness, and that I have been a cursed coward in this whole affair; why, then, Jack, I may blush, and be vexed; but, by my soul, I cannot contradict thee.

Base ruffian, begone from beneath this roof, false coward!"

Heard you our converse now?" "Strike, ye base cowards," answered Christalan.

And, like a selfish coward, I let her sufferI let her drop down and diedie!'

For one moment John stood still, white with rage and grief; then he uttered a sort of choking howl, and sprang at James, "You cruel coward!

"O thou son of a vile coward," he exclaimed "how is it that you are not more respectful in your address to me?"

Perhaps I ought to have been ashamed after this recital to decline an invitation from Mr. de R's son to dine with him at the camp; but I cannot but feel that I am an extreme coward, and that I should eat with no appetite in sight of an Austrian army.

Why were men so vely aflaid to die?' 'Because they were all such shocking cowards.' 'Oh, not all!

The author of this last piece, is very severe on the character of Settle; he represents him as an errant knave, a despicable coward, and a prophane Atheist, and seems amazed that any party should make choice of a champion, whose morals were so tainted; but as this is only the language of party violence, no great credit is to be given to it.

Base cowards, traytors!

He played with the helpless panting coward as a cat might with a mouse; but I read in his inexorable eyes that it was no jest, and his finger seemed to be already tightening upon his trigger.

From that day he gave up his wild life, but was a hopeless coward.