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Joe tried to grab him with the boathook, but it was useless, and the unhappy poltroon's body was whirled away.
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"Then you have been playing the poltroon," he says savagely.
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He insulted you, and then he behaved like a poltroon down at Silverbridge, and I will not have you know him any more.
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But I can't consent to pass for a fool; and still more not for a poltroon—You'll excuse the little hint.'
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My error—and I 'll not forgive myself in haste for it—was the belief that an upstart need not of necessity be a poltroon.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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