Why, no, I say, distrustful recreants! Fight till the last gasp; I will be your guard. From LearnThat.org. [William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), King Henry VI, Part i, Act 1, Scene 2]
Some provinces had proved recreant. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
He whom thou hast called recreant knight, has been Saxon host. From Wordnik.com. [Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete] Reference
"recreant," had he wavered when the descendant of Mary Stuart claimed his services. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.] Reference
Should my recreant muse -- sometimes apt to refuse. From Wordnik.com. [Pipe and Pouch The Smoker's Own Book of Poetry] Reference
Where it is not, parents are recreant to their duty. From Wordnik.com. [The Christian Home] Reference
If we are false and recreant, we shall miserably fail. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
And when in the time of trial you hear the recreant say. From Wordnik.com. [Lundy's Lane and Other Poems] Reference
Ach -- I shook my head and gathered my recreant wits together!. From Wordnik.com. [Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People'] Reference
The recreant foe is fleeing fast -- those men of dastard souls. From Wordnik.com. [War Poetry of the South] Reference
Spezza-fer (Shiver-spear), and a tremendous recreant was Captain. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Pantomime] Reference
Better there in death united, than in life a recreant, -- Come! '. From Wordnik.com. [Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys] Reference
So he laid his crown and sceptre down, his recreant life to save. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843] Reference
The north was humbled in the dust, by the action of her own recreant sons. From Wordnik.com. [Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854)] Reference
At the first sign of dawn she went in search of her recreant lord and master. From Wordnik.com. [Public Speaking] Reference
Nor would he come forth, for all that Sir Bors called him coward and recreant. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference
He wrote these few letters to keep the recreant lover informed about her fate. From Wordnik.com. [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference
Archduke of Austria (act iii.sc. i): -- 'Hang a calf's skin on those recreant limbs!'. From Wordnik.com. [Shakspere and Montaigne] Reference
A mosaic of images depicting your chronic laziness, unearned ego, and recreant cruelty. From Wordnik.com. [Mare] Reference
'Thy vaunting of thy recreant kinsman's might will not avail thee,' he cried furiously. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference
What mother, prompted by such sympathy, can be recreant to the duties of her household?. From Wordnik.com. [The Christian Home] Reference
And now, just because you are personally inconvenienced, you prove recreant to the Cause. From Wordnik.com. [By the Christmas Fire] Reference
Excalibur that he grew passing hardy, and called upon Arthur to yield himself as recreant. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur"] Reference
Convince the recreant child that you correct him from motives of love, and for his own good. From Wordnik.com. [The Christian Home] Reference
Paoli and Germantown, and call their children bondmen of Carolina, vassals and recreant slaves!. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Finally, in an alcove, sitting at an empty table, and with no companion, she spied the recreant. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands] Reference
Cliges, who never wished to have aught in common with a recreant or coward, sees him come alone. From Wordnik.com. [Cligés. English] Reference
No Eighty-sixth man will be so recreant to the memories of the past as to forget this day's march. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Eighty-sixth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, during its term of service] Reference
All this language heard Sir Launcelot, and he wist well that he must defend himself, or else be recreant. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur"] Reference
I must now leave the reverend gentlemen in the hands of Him who knows best how to deal with a recreant ministry. From Wordnik.com. [Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; or, the escape of William and Ellen Craft from slavery] Reference
Not for a moment did the Doctor believe that his recreant son pondered wisely and deeply these successive epistles of his. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference
'If I were but a churl, I should reckon myself a nobler man than the recreant knight from whom I have rescued you and your sister. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference
Mr. Cuyler descended gloomily to his proper milieu, and took up the task of finding a branch office manager to replace the recreant. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
There is but one type of man who is more pitiable -- it is he who is recreant to the great cause of freedom for the sake of -- money!. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
He would have been recreant indeed or a marvellously brave man that would have returned to one of them a confessed runaway from battle. From Wordnik.com. [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference
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