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I never was fainthearted before; but I cannot believe such a creature cares for me.'
NORTH AND SOUTHELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELLI ricommend to you, trusting to God, and putting down all misgivings and fainthearted feelin's.
THE DEERSLAYERJAMES FENIMORE COOPERSometimes I feel almost fainthearted, which is cowardly and forgetful of our calling "to fight manfully under Christ's banner."
LIFE OF JOHN COLERIDGE PATTESONCHARLOTTE M. YONGEBy its power he keeps the whole herd of dejected, fainthearted, despairing and unsuccessful creatures, fast to life.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHEGEORG BRANDESOnly the fainthearted talk of retreating; the others do not think of it, and these are more than the majority.
THE LONE RANCHECAPTAIN MAYNE REIDI shall advise General Washington to appoint you to take charge of our fainthearted ones.
PEGGY OWEN PATRIOTLUCY FOSTER MADISONHe was leaning back with closed eyes, tired and fainthearted, and he did not answer.
DAVID FLEMING'S FORGIVENESSMARGARET MURRAY ROBERTSONHad not each had a strong motive for continuing the investigation, it is possible they might have grown fainthearted.
THE PIT PROP SYNDICATEFREEMAN WILLS CROFTSThe fainthearted mistrust themselves and others; and they discourage themselves and others.
THE EXPOSITOR'S BIBLE: THE PASTORAL EPISTLESALFRED PLUMMERDeliver him that suffereth wrong out of the hand of the proud: and be not fainthearted in thy soul.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO FAINTHEARTED
- afraid
- anxious
- apprehensive
- backward
- base
- caitiff
- chicken-hearted
- cowering
- cowhearted
- craven
- dastardly
- diffident
- dismayed
- fainthearted
- frightened
- gutless
- having the willies
- jittery
- lacking courage
- lily-livered
- nervous
- no guts
- panicky
- paper tiger
- pigeonhearted
- pusillanimous
- recreant
- retiring
- running scared
- scared
- shrinking
- shy
- soft
- spineless
- timid
- timorous
- weak
- weak-kneed
- worthless
- yellow
- yellow-bellied
- aflutter
- afraid
- aghast
- agitated
- anxious
- chicken
- chickenhearted
- diffident
- disquieted
- disturbed
- fainthearted
- frightened
- goose-bumpy
- have cold feet
- hesitant
- in a dither
- intimidated
- jittery
- jumpy
- lily-livered
- mousy
- nerveless
- nervous
- nervy
- panicky
- perturbed
- phobic
- pusillanimous
- quivery
- rabbity
- running scared
- scared
- shaky
- sheepish
- shrinking
- shy
- skittish
- solicitous
- spineless
- tense
- timid
- timorous
- tremulous
- uneasy
- unmanly
- weak-kneed
- worried
- yellow
- Milquetoast
- afraid
- ambivalent
- apprehensive
- badgered
- bashful
- browbeaten
- bullied
- capricious
- cowardly
- cowed
- cowering
- coy
- daunted
- demure
- diffident
- fainthearted
- fearful
- feeble
- frightened
- gentle
- having cold feet
- humble
- intimidated
- irresolute
- modest
- mousy
- nervous
- pusillanimous
- retiring
- shaky
- shrinking
- soft
- spineless
- spiritless
- submissive
- timorous
- trembling
- unassertive
- unassured
- unnerved
- vacillating
- wavering
- weak
- yellow
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.