poltroonery
Example Sentences
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Maddened by the apparent poltroonery of his troops, he seized a musket, and, rushing forward, commenced battering at the door with its butt.
From The Funny Philosophers Wags and Sweethearts by George Yellott
To hold aloof from them would have been poltroonery.
From Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography by George William Erskine Russell
Stanley was very much moved by this generous offer and the anxiety of the king to make amends for Lamboozi's poltroonery and thieving conduct.
From Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent by Joel Tyler Headley
It might turn out a fortunate piece of poltroonery, if Dr. Nash contrived to break the ice for her with the other old sister.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan
You believed rather the tales you heard of our poltroonery, and impotence of body and mind.
From The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers by Mason Locke Weems
