faint-heartedness
Example Sentences
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But the possibility is floated that it's over for serious novels of any sort other than those that salve our faint-heartedness.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 5, 2012
He remained indeed a child, with the charm, the gaiety, the simplicity of a child, but with the wilfulness, the faint-heartedness, the desultoriness of a child.
From Beside Still Waters by Arthur Christopher Benson
Two things there are which stand firm, while the heart of man is kept vacillating between defiance and despondency, haughtiness and faint-heartedness; they are nature and the ideal within us.
From Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Berthold Auerbach
No power on earth except faint-heartedness on your own part, can defeat you....
From The Issue The Case for Sinn Fein by Lector
Jim Freeman and his friends seemed to be of the same mind as Jerry, and I said nothing to them lest I be accused of faint-heartedness, when everything was apparently going our way.
From Commodore Barney's Young Spies A Boy's Story of the Burning of the City of Washington by James Otis
