Moreover, he had no shame in his poltroonery like the recreant. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
I couldn't believe such poltroonery, myself, and said so, loudly. From Wordnik.com. [The Sky Writer] Reference
How should it possibly, by any stretch of poltroonery and baseness, be otherwise?. From Wordnik.com. [My Contemporaries In Fiction] Reference
On the other hand, poltroonery is the acknowledging an inferiority to be incurable. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860] Reference
Abdication of responsibility mothered by political poltroonery, thy name is Congress. From Wordnik.com. [Bruce Fein: Congressional Abdication to the Fed] Reference
But these nasty props and plasters the doctors sell — why, they are just badges of poltroonery. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Father Brown] Reference
Soliman, however, soon repented of his poltroonery, and roused the war-cry among some of his tribes. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
The nation paid a pension of £600 a year to Mr. Fraser as indemnity for its Government's poltroonery. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Barbary Corsairs] Reference
All conciliation or clemency will be construed into weakness; generosity and forbearance into poltroonery. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864] Reference
We as a species are extraordinary, and capable of great heroism and compassion as well as poltroonery and spite. From Wordnik.com. [Perspective on Mars] Reference
The only thing that at all tended to shake this conviction, was the extraordinary poltroonery of our new captive. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844] Reference
To hold aloof from them would have been poltroonery. From Wordnik.com. [Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography] Reference
The Duke had faults enough, but poltroonery was not one of them. From Wordnik.com. [English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4] Reference
Achilles accuses Agamemnon of drunkenness, greed, and poltroonery. From Wordnik.com. [Homer and His Age] Reference
His discretion took on the look of poltroonery and he groveled in shame. From Wordnik.com. [We Can't Have Everything] Reference
Do you not make use of my poltroonery to hinder me from entering our house?. From Wordnik.com. [Amphitryon] Reference
There is a point where toleration sinks into sheer baseness and poltroonery. From Wordnik.com. [The Biglow Papers] Reference
Then the old soldier, half in despair at this poltroonery, proposed another plan. From Wordnik.com. [Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) The Romance of Reality] Reference
Dissension, ambition, and poltroonery were delivering France over to the foreigner. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5] Reference
The rashness of Abercromby before the fight was matched by his poltroonery after it. From Wordnik.com. [Montcalm and Wolfe] Reference
It is not willingly that I desert a losing cause; but I cannot bear such poltroonery. From Wordnik.com. [French and English A Story of the Struggle in America] Reference
And Seth, as he drove on, related the story of Jack's miserable boasting and poltroonery. From Wordnik.com. [The Drummer Boy] Reference
But these nasty props and plasters the doctors sell -- why, they are just badges of poltroonery. From Wordnik.com. [The Innocence of Father Brown] Reference
Or, in other words, since they must be selfish, let them be so without the poltroonery of selfishness. From Wordnik.com. [Rhoda Fleming — Complete] Reference
Luke wept helplessly at the memory of his poltroonery, and Joel tried roughly to comfort him with questions. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference
I find that it would be a piece of poltroonery in me to withdraw either the dedication or the dedicatory letter. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Hawthorne] Reference
It is mere bullying to wish to profit by the poltroonery of those whom one makes to feel the weight of one's arm. From Wordnik.com. [Amphitryon] Reference
Their inefficiency was, in that age, commonly imputed, both by their enemies and by their allies, to natural poltroonery. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3] Reference
He was being punished for the crimes of his youth and for the poltroonery that had kept him from turning Jake out of the house. From Wordnik.com. [The Fighting Edge] Reference
A chat with you and your companion would give me much pleasure, but I would not purchase that pleasure by the least poltroonery. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5] Reference
Be that as it might, I retained presence of mind enough not to make my position yet more irksome by the poltroonery of drawing back. From Wordnik.com. [The Blithedale Romance] Reference
At tea in the dismantled sitting-room, though he was going out to supper, he ate quite as much tea as usual, from sheer poltroonery. From Wordnik.com. [Clayhanger] Reference
General William H. Winder, whose poltroonery at Bladensburg, in 1814, nullified the resistance of the gallant Commodore Barney, and gave. From Wordnik.com. [Andersonville — Volume 1] Reference
The pacific policy of Casimir Perier was misunderstood; it passed for mere poltroonery, when in fact it was the only policy that could save. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878] Reference
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