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

I often stopped on the way with weariness and faint-heartedness, but did not again turn back, and by two o'clock in the afternoon I reached my own cottage.

From The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant by Wilson, Alexander Johnstone

A new, jerky little melody accompanies the remarks of Punchinello, and it would be very gay were it not written in the minor, which gives it a touching effect of faint-heartedness.

From Stars of the Opera by Wagnalls, Mabel

And with these words the martial fire of the father blazed out in the son, so that his men wondered more than ever how they could have suspected him of faint-heartedness.

From Boycotted And Other Stories by Reed, Talbot Baines

Never be frightened at your own faint-heartedness in attaining love.

From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor