Do we say coward or cowered

coward 1433 occurrences

"By-and-by I could have righted it, but sheshe wasn't the kind to hang about and wait on a man's better nature when once he'd shown himself a coward.

Then thou art a Poltroon, that's to say, a Coward.

Pardon me, Sir, I gave the Coward, and you ought to strike.

But Sackville was no coward.

I trow thou drawest better bow than that same coward knave Robin Hood, that dared not show his face here this day.

An Englishman was to the North a bullying, arrogant coward,purse-proud, yet cringing to rank,without loyalty and without sentiment,given over to mere material interests, not comprehending the idea of honor, and believing, as the fortieth of his religious articles, that any injury, even to a blow, could be compensated by money.

Like a coward she had watched Rhona attacked, had not even raised her voice, had not, even attempted interference.

"I was a coward, JoeI didn't do anything to help her!"

Hark to the bourgeois Huguenot, whose family peddles cloth!" "You coward!

CACAFO'GO, a rich, drunken usurer, stumpy and fat, choleric, a coward, and a bully.

CAPITAN, a boastful, swaggering coward, in several French farces and comedies prior to the time of Molière. CAPONSAC'CHI (Guiseppe), the young priest under whose protection Pompilia fled from her husband to Rome.

There never was a raskal or coward of that nation.

No:Men will say I fear'd him, if I kill'd him. Live still, and be a traitor in thy wish, But never act thy thought, being a coward.

On the other hand, there was a part of my motherher brave cheerfulness, her trust in God, her heroic struggle to keep the home togetherwhich went soaring on beyond my understanding, leaving me a coward weakling, grovelling in the dust.

A veteran dramatist now alive, distinguished for the oddness of his humour, being required to state his grounds of exemption from serving in the militia, actually wrote on the official paper, "Old, lame, and a coward!" T. GILL.

Only a coward would do such a thing....

Once light the clouds that 'wilder me, I ne'er had raised this coward cry To cease to think, and cease to be; I ne'er had called oblivion blest, Nor, stretching eager hands to death, Implored to change for senseless rest This sentient soul, this living breath Oh, let me diethat power and will Their cruel strife may close, And conquered good and conquering ill Be lost in one repose!

No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere: I see Heaven's glories shine, And faith shines equal, arming me from fear.

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

Captain said, 'General, I'm not crazy and neither am I a coward.

As a rule, Mok was a coward, but two glasses of beer were enough to turn his nature in precisely the opposite direction.

This narrow escape made them more cautious, and induced them to adopt the following system of policy: Convinced that fear was not a sufficient protection, and that the bravest man might be murdered by a coward in his bed, they labored to foment wars among the negro princes, while they themselves declined to aid either party.

Mary was all anxiety for the fate of her lover, and she manifested a greater concern for the preservation of his life than that of her own; but she could not entertain the idea that he could refuse to fight, and so be esteemed a coward.

"I am no coward, I hopea coward would make a bad Garde Chiourme at Toulon, I fancy.

"I am no coward, I hopea coward would make a bad Garde Chiourme at Toulon, I fancy.

cowered 136 occurrences

Suddenly she fell on her knees beside the lounge and cowered among its cushions, while the eyes of the Christ, reproachfully tender, seemed to pierce her very soul.

I cried, and cowered back into my chair.

The heavy waves that had rushed to and fro Cowered at His feet in sudden melody; And all transfigured in the shining glow Did He come to me walking on the sea.

His wife's sullenness and bad temper continued that day, for she cowered away from him and hid under the sofa, nor could he persuade her to come out from there.

In front of them was a young cow caribou, threatening savagely with horns and hoofs, while behind her cowered two half-grown fawns crowded into a crevice of the rocks.

But Aunt Amy cowered away.

Now the firelight was too feeble to show more than one thingthe haunted eyes of the girl, as she cowered away from him.

A low moaning, as of the dead, greeted this, and the people cowered with shaking knees as the dread finger passed them slowly by.

His head drooped, his shoulders were hunched slightly, as if he cowered before some perpetually falling blow.

Trembling with a fearful apprehension of what might happen next, I cowered against the wall until the day broke, and then I perceived that in front of me was a great hole in the wall of the dungeon, which extended for more than a yard above the floor.

Antonius was leading an army against the Roman people at the time when, being abandoned by the legions, he cowered at the name of Caesar and at his army, and neglecting the regular sacrifices, he offered up before daylight vows which he could never mean to perform, and at this very moment he is endeavouring to invade a province of the Roman people.

She wasand naturally, sincerely, instinctivelythe very incarnation and mouthpiece of the conventionality of society, as she cowered there in her grief and her quiet resentment.

And when he came to Itch, Serge noticed how Itch trembled and cowered before Popoff, cringing as he brought a three-legged stool and saying, "Sit near the fire, little father; it is cold."

There was something lively and merry in it, too, as if the flakes themselves were joyful and dancing in the abundance of their life,as if they and the wind had a life of their own, as well as poor stupid mortals, that cowered under cover, and shut themselves away from the broad, free air.

The conditions had been ripe for it, and in that very moment a fever of repentance spread through the two thousand people who had cowered under his words.

He cowered, cast hunted glances at the bloody figure on the floor, bit his knuckles in a frenzy.

" With one shoulder turned to her father, she cowered to her lover's breast.

He made a poor stroke with the paddle, threw up much surplus water, and, as he cowered away from Tayoga, he corrected himself hastily.

Before this mother in Israel the judges cowered; But still they suffered her to die.

On the threshold cowered Najib.

I cowered in the smoking-room, unmanned; The days dragged by and still the men were here.

Tony cowered down upon his broom under the wall where Dolly had sat in the sunshine all the morning to watch him sweep his crossing.

" She cowered closer to the bed, and answered, "I do not know.

His wife and children cowered at his approach; and on more than one occasion only accident (or Providence) saved him from the crime of murder.

The nurse, a German Catholic, fell on his knees and told his beads, glancing over his shoulder in undisguised horror; the patients cowered together, groaning and praying; and I could hear the stir and confusion in the ward below.

Do we say   coward   or  cowered