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lacking courage



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“I am in a cage, lacking courage, insignificant, flinching and escaping, just like this photo,” she wrote.

From New York Times Jan. 4, 2019

Galatasaray coach Fatih Terim has accused ref Svein Oddvar Moen of "lacking courage" during his side's Big Cup defeat to Real Madrid.

From The Guardian Apr. 4, 2013

A tail, thin, amiable, blond young man. who, because he has never before reached the final in the Amateur, has been accused of lacking courage, Fischer leaned over his ball.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even Peru's rightists, who for a quarter century had hated Haya de la Torre with a bitterness peculiar to Peru, had seldom accused him of lacking courage.

From Time Magazine Archive

But, as he neared his goal, strange doubts and indecisions arose in his mind; and when he had reached Oliveta's house he passed on, lacking courage to enter.

From The Net by Beach, Rex Ellingwood




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