I have always chosen the coward's part.

I had thought myself brave enough to be silent, but still I must play the coward's part!

A coward's eyesa cur's face, Godwin.

"We shall be doin' our duty by those we have left behind if we hug as close to the villains as is possible, while there's no chance I can serve my father by hangin' back at a coward's distance.

" "Ha!" cried Little John, "coward's name have I never had; so, look to thyself, good Cook, for I come forth straight, the roaring lion I did speak of but now.

Wha can fill a coward's grave? Wha sae base as be a slave? Let him turn and flee!

" The doctor's eyes snapped: "That's surely a coward's way out," he said, "and why should any woman have to ask for what is her right.

And now my long hair was shingled like a coward's!

Five hundred if one, dripping-jawed, red-eyed, gray creatures-of-prey, they waited, as ever, for the coward's chance to fight with great odds in their favor.

Spare me the coward's fear Questioning wrong or right: Lord, among these mine enemies, Grant me the strength to fight.

"There's your coward's blow.

V. And all the names that Romans knew Seem just as known to me, As if I were a Roman too A Roman born and free: And I could rise at Cæsar's name, As though it were a charm To draw sharp lightning from the tame, And brace the coward's arm.

That was a coward's wish, and so you would not come.

I doubt whether, at the present day, the coward's horror at the sight of courage, the politician's alarm at the sound of principle, or envy's utmost malignity would go so far as to call a woman that.

"Divorce is a coward's retreat from the battle of life."

"It was no coward's legs or hands, Harry Waakfelt, that drew you out of the fords of Fried, when you was drifting ower the place rock, and every eel in the river expected his share of you.

Two years earlier a judge had been shot and maimed on a western circuit and since then, MacFarlane had taken a coward's precaution.

"It was a coward's trick," she panted.

To-morrow, Scorn will blight my name, And Hate will trample me, Will load me with a coward's shame

A coward's trick.

CHAPTER XVIII THE PURSUIT The attorney was brave with a coward's great bravery; he was afraid, but he went on.

Only he saw it imminent, and would have fallen in sheer terror, his coward's knees giving way under him, if Mr. Dunborough had not driven him back against the wall with a violence that jarred the teeth in his head.

Quit we the coward's broken breath Who watched a strong man die.

The troop gaze on him, as if some bright star Shot to their aids; call him the god of war: Whilst he, as if all conquest did of right Belong to him, bids them prepare to fight; Which if they should delay one hour, he swears He'll leave them to their dangers, or their fears, And shame, which is the ignoble coward's choice.

[Illustration] FEMALE ATHLETICISM.If Ladies go in for "the gloves," not as formerly by the coward's blow on the lips of a sleeping victimoften uncommonly wide-awakethe noble art of self-defence can be taught under the head of "Millin-ery."