A draft dodger can lead a nation into war; a coward can demand courage of the populace.
A man walks out of one room confidently and immediately enters the next as a sniveling coward.
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But he did not wish the little girl to think him a coward, so he advanced slowly to the edge of the roof.
But he is eventually unmasked as a coward and a fraud.
Coward. You say you want nothing to do with me.
December, 1998 a statue of Noël Coward was unveiled by the Queen Mother who was a long-time friend.
Fear didn't make a person a coward.
From 1763 till 1784 he was classical and philological tutor in Coward's training college at Hoxton; and subsequently for some years at another institution of the same kind at Hackney.
He does not kill the villain, since that coward turns and flees, realizing who is the master.
He thought of the number of times that he himself had been a coward.
He was moreover a coward, and went in such constant terror of assassination that he always surrounded himself with a regular bodyguard.
He would have scrammed in a minute, the coward.
How can a kneeling coward know what it's like to fall?
I was a coward, he said after a moment.
I was compelled to proceed or be branded a coward.
In Howie's troubled mind did he believe himself the coward?
In the world of the theater Noel Coward had become superman.
Instead of owning up to his indiscretion directly with you, he acted like a coward and sent you a message in order to avoid hearing your pain and disappointment.
Is she a craven coward or are the puppies just bought in for resale?
No one thinks you a coward, but that's not the point.
No you won't be called a coward for having them early.
Norfolk, however, played the coward; the bull came nearly a year too late, and the rebellion of the earls (1569) was easily crushed.
Only the clergy, naturally conservative, still clung to the king, and Sigismund III., who was no coward, at once proceeded to Cracow to overawe the rokoszanie, or insurrectionists, by his proximity, and take the necessary measures for his own protection.
She would have coward under the table all night, too frightened to go for help.
The concluding years of Canute's reign were peaceful, as became a prince who, though by no means a coward, was not of an overwhelmingly martial temperament.
The coward placed a very thick cudgel beside him for protection.
The disgusting little coward was hiding at his girlfriend's house.
The reference to "tail" is either to the expression "turn tail" in flight, or to the habit of animals dropping the tail between the legs when frightened; in heraldry, a lion in this position is a "lion coward."
The seneschal of the court, a coward who has been watching for such an opportunity, cuts off the dragon's head, and, presenting it to the king, claims the reward, much to the dismay of Iseult and her mother.
The sight of Christ's Cross makes the coward brave.
Theodahad, notwithstanding a varnish of literary culture, was a coward and a scoundrel.
They saw the sorry mess you left behind and thought you took the coward 's selfish way.
When you told me you were a vampire I was wracked with guilt, you were so brave and I am such a coward.
You did this, you coward!
You must think I'm a terrible coward.