"He who can be called niddering shall never be crowned king!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete] Reference

Planters or sons of planters, many of them men of fortune, soldiering was a hard task to which they only became reconciled by reflecting that it was "niddering" in gentlemen to assume voluntarily the discharge of duties and then shirk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference

The malison of her muliebrity allows niddering males opportunity for oppugnant vilipend.    From Wordnik.com.  [Save the language! « Write Anything] Reference

Such youths as infringed this rule, incurred the dishonourable epithet of niddering, or worthless, — an epithet of a nature so insulting, that men were known to have slain themselves, rather than endure life under such opprobrium.    From Wordnik.com.  [Count Robert of Paris] Reference

We three have tholed together empty wame and niddering cold and the weariness o 'death.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45] Reference

"There's an MP here called Vince Cable who has adopted 'niddering,' which means cowardly," said Ms. Higgleton.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

"Take shield," he said, "and, Earl, on thine own head be thy blood, for none shall live to call Eric niddering and coward.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Eric Brighteyes] Reference

I told her plainly; otherwise it would have surely seemed that it was a niddering sort of habit of mine, and unworthy of a warrior in.    From Wordnik.com.  [A King's Comrade A Story of Old Hereford] Reference

Atli was deceived by her, and not until I had cut him down in anger at the bitter words he spoke, calling me coward and niddering, did he know the truth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eric Brighteyes] Reference

Would anybody really wish to get rid of terms like mansuetude (an almost onomatopoeic word for gentleness) or niddering (a jellyish synonym for cowardly)?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blogposts | guardian.co.uk] Reference

Would it indeed be possible, for instance, to convey a notion of the customs and manners of our Saxon forefathers without employing words so mixed up with their daily usages and modes of thinking as "weregeld" and "niddering"?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete] Reference

Were they on the river, and our countrymen, Dane or Saxon, alone in this hall, small doubt of the King's choice, and niddering were the man who spoke of peace; but when Norman advises the dwellers of England to go forth and slay each other, no sword of mine shall be drawn at his hest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete] Reference

"Man or woman, it is a niddering deed to kill folk in their sleep.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eric Brighteyes] Reference

So waste no words and make not niddering threats against greater folk, "and he slouched back to his horse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eric Brighteyes] Reference

Then at last she says, "And all this is but marred because of a niddering lad who will leave the hall at a feast for the whining of the priests yonder!.    From Wordnik.com.  [A King's Comrade A Story of Old Hereford] Reference

Those niddering, olid morons who, in caliginosity of understanding, vilipend our English by attempting to exuviate words for which they cannot see any present custom.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Gentleman's C] Reference

Though thou art my son, I say this, that, if thou workest ill to Eric when he is over sea, thou shalt rightly learn the weight of Whitefire: it is a niddering deed to plot against an absent man. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Eric Brighteyes] Reference

I shall not call you niddering, being a man of peace, as all know. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Hereward, the Last of the English] Reference

And, therefore, if thou provest false to him, niddering thou art; and no niddering is spouse of mine. '".    From Wordnik.com.  [Hereward, the Last of the English] Reference

I go forth at the call of duty, and thou couldst not bid me to stay at home that men may call me 'niddering.'".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rival Heirs; being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendune] Reference

He's only got to be reported as saying that the Prime Minister's response to the financial crisis has been niddering ... and there he is using the word in a good natural-language context. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

"Then thou art coward and niddering!" said Eric.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eric Brighteyes] Reference

Kill us if you will, for we are niddering. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [A King's Comrade A Story of Old Hereford] Reference