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 Queen, fearing he would at length grow weary, called to him not to lose courage, that the Fairy Lioness wanted to tire him out, but that true love knew how to face all difficulties.
From Tales of Passed Times by Perrault, Charles
Bit by bit the men gained their ease, but, as their embarrassment passed, the women seemed to lose courage.
From Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha by Wilson, Samuel Graham