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
But if the Almighty will only spare and protect you, and that dear child, I shall not lose courage.
From The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. I (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors by Various
As they have no knowledge of materials, nor judgment in using them, they undertake the impossible, and being baffled, lose courage to undertake the possible.
From Education in The Home, The Kindergarten, and The Primary School by Peabody, Elizabeth P. (Palmer)