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Coward

noun

A person who shows fear or timidity.

English dramatist and actor and composer noted for his witty and sophisticated comedies (1899-1973). Synonyms: Noel Coward, Sir Noel Pierce Coward.

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"Coward" Quotes from Famous Books

... Sterett, as he ag'in refreshes himse'f, 'it's needless to go over that hunt in detail. We hustles the flyin' demon full eighteen miles, our faithful dogs crowdin' close an' breathless at his coward heels. Still, they don't catch up with him; he streaks ...

— Wolfville Nights • Alfred Lewis

... is a noble passage. The difference between the conduct of the brave man and that of the coward is drawn ...

— The Iliad of Homer - Translated into English Blank Verse • Homer

... the combined attack of Jarrick and myself, was maintaining the argument. "There is no such thing as instinctive bravery," he affirmed, for the fifth time at least, "amongst intelligent men. Every one of us is naturally a coward. Of course we are. The more imagination we've got the more we can realize how pleasant life is, after all, and how rotten the adjuncts of sudden death. It's reason that does the trick—reason and tradition. Do you know of any one who ...

— The Best Short Stories of 1915 - And the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

... heart, or of our conscience, as the case may be, and will not let go its hold. And then the heart and the conscience run out continually and lay hold of the future evil and carry it home to our terrified bosoms. We apprehend the coming evil, and feel it long before it comes. We die, like the coward, ...

— Samuel Rutherford - and some of his correspondents • Alexander Whyte

... of these pranks, or she would feel as you do; and I hope every one here will be kind enough not to tell her. It would only be making her anxious to no purpose, whenever the boy is out of her sight. It would be a pity to make a coward of him; and I think I can teach him what is mischief, and what is not, without disturbing her. Come, ladies, suppose you rest yourselves here; you will find a pleasant seat on this bank: at least, I fell asleep on it just now, as if I had been ...

— Deerbrook • Harriet Martineau

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