Only a dastard would perform such an unthinkable act. From LearnThat.org.
"dastard," but he coolly waited until Haldane had finished, and then asked in his former tone. From Wordnik.com. [A Knight of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
I – at whose name the dastard despot brood. From Wordnik.com. [Act II] Reference
To force from out their lines these dastard bands. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid English] Reference
Nor, while you rule, shall rear their dastard head. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference
And the dastard that loiters, the conflict to shun. From Wordnik.com. [War Poetry of the South] Reference
"You are a liar and a dastard!" he cried, fiercely. From Wordnik.com. [Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road or, The Black Rider of the Black Hills] Reference
Can he have brought himself to such a dastard deed?. From Wordnik.com. [Medea] Reference
And loud the dastard cowards for mercy then did call. From Wordnik.com. [The Bold Belfast Shoemaker] Reference
And thou, fair sir, why fleest thou this grey dastard?. From Wordnik.com. [The Water of the Wondrous Isles] Reference
"You dastard!" are but some of the expressions proved. From Wordnik.com. [Public Speaking] Reference
But he who doubts is damned, and he who dallies is a dastard. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference
But if I shall spy any dastard that cowers far from the fight. From Wordnik.com. [The Nicomachean Ethics] Reference
The recreant foe is fleeing fast -- those men of dastard souls. From Wordnik.com. [War Poetry of the South] Reference
You are a contemptible dastard — a despicable, damned villain!. From Wordnik.com. [The Purcell Papers] Reference
Was it then to meet a dastard thou camest with all that host to war?. From Wordnik.com. [The Phoenissae] Reference
But accouple these words with the succeeding actions, -- "You dastard!". From Wordnik.com. [Public Speaking] Reference
I'm certain his dead ex-wife haunts him nightly for being such a dastard. From Wordnik.com. [Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off] Reference
Europe, within a month, will decry him, as a fugitive, a fool, and a dastard. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844] Reference
Would not the man who whispered of snow and ice be a renegade, a dastard, a rebel?. From Wordnik.com. [Tropic Days] Reference
It must be unbearable - the thought of your loved one in the hands of that dastard. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman's Lady]
"So I'm to be a dotard with one foot in the grave, as well as a dastard," roared Miraz. From Wordnik.com. [Prince Caspian]
"A very great dastard art thou," she says, "thou, whom Njal hath thrice saved from outlawry.". From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor] Reference
The illustrious Delobelle also bore Risler a grudge, and freely said of him: "He is a dastard.". From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
"Thou dastard!" cried Roland, "no traitor is Charlemagne, but a right noble king and cavalier.". From Wordnik.com. [Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12)] Reference
Years ago he lost his choicest friend by the stab of just such a little dastard lying in ambush. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
I don't think I am a coward in most things, but I am a perfect dastard before that, my worst enemy. From Wordnik.com. [Hollowmell or, A Schoolgirl's Mission] Reference
What! thou frontless dastard, thou — thou who didst wait for opened gate and lowered bridge, when. From Wordnik.com. [Quentin Durward] Reference
In others, one is dumped square into the racket that is the dastard American health insurance market. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Diary: Platform 2010: A Voice Against Violence] Reference
Nest morning we divided into two parties, and taking the dogs, proceeded in chase of the dastard Galician. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
No one who ever watched a match scratched their head and wondered who was the dastard and who was the darling. From Wordnik.com. [Lionel: Olbermann Versus O'Reilly: It's a Shoot] Reference
And soon the dastard cowards for mercy loud did call, saying spare our lives brave Irwin and we will pray for thee. From Wordnik.com. [Bold Belfast Shoemaker] Reference
Or what, O cowardly dastard, does that man deserve, who screens himself behind the clothes of a woman to strike at a foe?. From Wordnik.com. [The Substance of a Dream] Reference
But the man who is both his associate and enemy, Cyril Chatteris, is a common sort of dastard, and altogether disagreeable. From Wordnik.com. [Australian Writers] Reference
Mr. WILLIAM O'BRIEN, having denounced this denial as "the last effort of a defeated dastard," resigns his seat for Cork City. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914] Reference
Dartmouth (dart'muth), college at Hanover, N.H. dastard (das'tard), coward. daunted (dant'ed), dismayed. dauntless (dant'les), fearless. From Wordnik.com. [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference
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