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
Scudamour's faint-heartedness was the cause of their grief and disappointment.
From Tales from Spenser; Chosen from the Faerie Queene by Spencer, Edmund
Rudolf regarded her fixedly, and his ideas concerning this woman were peculiar: he took this pallor for faint-heartedness, this veiled regard for coquetry, and he believed it would be no difficult matter to win her.
From A Hungarian Nabob by Bain, R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet)
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 Otis, James
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 Benson, Arthur Christopher
