Thesaurus / faint-hearted
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The faint candle-light glimmered on a ponderous gilded cornice, which had also sustained violence.
CHECKMATEJOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANUIt was difficult to describe—a little sterner, a little wilder, a faint emphasis of the barbaric peering through it.
THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOODThe simple honest-hearted General, who knew not the guile of their hearts, was deluded into wishing them success.
SHOWELL'S DICTIONARY OF BIRMINGHAMTHOMAS T. HARMAN AND WALTER SHOWELLHe was looking at me with eyebrows arched, curiously, and there was a faint suggestion of hostility in the set of his mouth.
THE SOLDIER OF THE VALLEYNELSON LLOYDBut his head was too hot to wear a thinking cap, and no story would come at his half-hearted call.
ROSEMARY IN SEARCH OF A FATHERC. N. WILLIAMSONHe was a big-bodied, big-hearted, ruddy-faced, farmerlike man of fifty or so; and the service was proud of him.
FIFTY YEARS OF RAILWAY LIFE IN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND AND IRELANDJOSEPH TATLOWThe cytoplasm of lymphocytes is generally robin's-egg blue; that of the large mononuclears may have a faint bluish tinge.
A MANUAL OF CLINICAL DIAGNOSISJAMES CAMPBELL TODDThe last vestige of her prejudice against Indians had melted and gone, in the presence of their simple-hearted friendliness.
RAMONAHELEN HUNT JACKSONWright's stain gives such cells a faint bluish tinge when the condition is mild, and a rather deep blue when severe.
A MANUAL OF CLINICAL DIAGNOSISJAMES CAMPBELL TODDAgain, he may grow faint and dizzy when he has climbed only a part of the way, or he may lose his hold from very weakness.
ALILA, OUR LITTLE PHILIPPINE COUSINMARY HAZELTON WADEWORDS RELATED TO FAINT-HEARTED
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