lacking courage

Her instinct judged it impossible she could ever have yielded her heart to a man lacking courage.

And I knew that Abner rode into something that little men, lacking courage, would gladly have stayed out of.

Then, with a shrug—I have never been accused of lacking courage—I tried once more, by the aid of a match, to locate a bell.

They go through life leaving a string of baited traps behind them, lacking courage to go back and see what they have caught.

George had met his death on that desperate march to the ford, and lacking courage, had died miserably.