Also he is most cowardly in extreme dangers and most treacherous even to his intimate friends, neither of which qualities is suited for generalship or war.

With all his ferocity and cruelty, however, I am of opinion that the tiger is more cowardly than courageous.

The wretch is the basest and most cowardly among the forest tribes; nor has the sublime courage of the English bull-dog ever been so memorably exhibited as in his hopeless fight at Warwick with the cowardly and cruel lion called Wallace.

If this had not been a fact my performance would have been as cowardly as that of my horse.

The only one among them who stood the test was the most cowardly of the group, who escaped the contagion through sheer lack of this faculty.