Cowardice is a word of bad omen, and meanness of spirit, and sorrow, and grief, and shamelessness.

He was full of self-reproach, and it seemed to him that cowardice was his besetting sin.

Just the same as a cowardice is a female coward.

He was against shooting a man for cowardice, because cowardice was not necessarily a quality of character.

Cowardice had been his failing as a boy.

These troops, who have been taught, almost from their infancy, that cowardice and flight are the greatest crimes, and persuaded, by national prejudices, and principles studiously instilled, that no foreign forces could withstand them, have fled before equal numbers of Britons, and been driven from one province to another, till, instead of grasping at general dominion, they were reduced to defend their wives and children.

Cowardice is the old fawner upon felony.

What a vivid imagination the Shepherd haswell, cowardice is an inspiring principle.

I had sat on many courts-martial where cowardice was the only charge imputed; and in every case in which that charge was proved, sentence of death had been passed and carried out on a ground I could not refuse to consider sufficient:namely, that the infection of terror can best be repressed by an example inspiring deeper terror than that to which the prisoner has yielded.

your own cowardice, your own weak worship of expediency, have been your real obstacles.

None was disgraced; for falling is no shame; And cowardice alone is loss of fame.

But cowardice is its own punishment.

It may even be said that some amount of fear is necessary, if we are to exist at all in the world, and cowardice is only the exaggerated form of it.

The Grand Master, Von Hompesch, seems to have been utterly unnerved by the bewildering problems before him, and the cowardice and irresolution he displayed were a disgrace to the traditions of the Order.