I believe the pusillanimity of the latter is traceable, in a great measure, to the miserable way in which the poor fellows are fed.

For he cast in the teeth of his audience their pusillanimity in suffering their champions to be murdered, and allowing so worthless a crew to lord it over them.

He could not help but return to the foot of the steps; any pusillanimity on his part at this juncture, any reluctance to meet Editha face to face or to bear the brunt of her reproaches and of her sneers, might jeopardize the romance of his personality in the eyes of Sue.

Suppled by long slavery, softened by mixture of blood, the black man seems to pass at one bound, as women do, from cowering pusillanimity to the topmost height of daring.

They looked back upon his pusillanimity with awe, and extracted from his apparent fears the subtle elements of a second providence.