He seems to have been a turncoat, with a fluent tongue and few principles.

These turncoats are the sympathetic, who are carried away by a rush of popular enthusiasm, and the fearful or peaceable, who dread or dislike violence.

"Whatin the brook!" replied the turncoat, with a glance at the stream, and not without humour, his face purple with emotion.

GENEVIEVE XXX THE TURNCOAT XXXI THE SPECTER IN THE HOUSE CHAPTER

No turncoat could win meI'd love him more on his own side yonder threefold wall, with his convictions, than on my side without them.

CHAPTER XXX THE TURNCOAT

They accuse Monsieur Dunwodee of being the cause, and say that he is traitor, a turncoat.

" "You lied to us, you long-headed Yankee turncoat," muttered another.

The present volume of "The Living and the Dead" is what the publisher terms the Second Series; for, like Buck, the turncoat actor, booksellers always think that one good turn deserves another.

Grieve we must, indeed, to find in you such a turncoat that naught