" Henshaw looked as though he would have liked to bring the dispute to the issue of a physical encounter, had but the coward in him dared.

It belittles manhood, and makes slaves and cowards of men.

He is a coward at heart.

The chiefs did not want to look like cowards to the people of the village.

The elephants were chewing hay and looking fierce, and the senator's boy said elephants were the greatest cowards on earth, and I said, "Not on your life; the giant in our show is the greatest coward, and the behemoth of holy writ is next."

Show no weakness toward them, for they will have no pity on you; neither the coward for running well, nor the bold man for smiting well, will be the better liked by the English, nor will any be the more spared on either account.

" "Then Colonel Gansevoort is as great a coward as General Herkimer, for we are of sufficient strength to march whithersoever we will.

I was thinking about elephants and wondering if they were cowards by nature, or had acquired cowardice by associating with mankind, when pa came along and sat down by me, a picture of despair, 'cause Bolivar had fractured one of his ribs, and the fat woman had paralyzed his knees sitting on his lap while they brought her to after she fainted when she thought a rat was climbing into her sock.

Do you think I was necessarily a greater fool and coward than another?

He had scolded a coward with hasty words, and been forced to follow where they led.

I was a coward about it, and wouldn't let on.

In time of actual fight he transforms cowards into heroes.

Fearless as he was before bright bayonets, he was an utter coward before bright ideas.

It is said of Dr. Johnson, that he was a hero against pain, but a coward against death.

He had declared that he would protect all who came to him promising to serve the king, and yet, when the five foolish cowards from our garrison presented themselves, they were given over to the merciless savages, much as honest people give play-things to their children.

I am Wampus, an' not 'fraid of a hundred coward like these.

And you just have to sit quiet and call yourself a coward until daylight.

Thus Conscience does make Cowards of vs all, [Sidenote: 30] And thus the Natiue hew of Resolution Is sicklied o're, with the pale cast of Thought, [Sidenote: sickled]

If any quarrell were twixt him and you, You should have bad him meete you in the field, Not like a coward under your owne roofe To knock him downe as he had bin an oxe, Or silly sheepe prepard for slaughter house.

" "Gentlemen," the Master said, in a low, quiet voice, "I regret to state that we have one coward among us.