lose courage
Example Sentences
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Sometimes in a Gothic novel authors lose courage and prettify the end.
From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2018
This may be counterintuitive after City were dumped from the Champions League quarter-finals, 5-1 by Liverpool, but Guardiola must not lose courage in his quest for ever more perfect football.
From The Guardian • Apr. 16, 2018
Other officials pressured her to keep silent and urged her boyfriend to abandon her so she would lose courage, she said.
From New York Times • Sep. 23, 2011
The Roman Catholic party had begun to lose courage, when, by a last effort of collected strength, it won the bloody battle of N�rdlingen.
From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. by Freytag, Gustav
If any of our men fall it will be said, Absalom's men have been defeated, and all thy adherents will lose courage.
From The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI) by Duncker, Max