poltroonery

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Stanley was very much moved by this generous offer and the anxiety of the king to make amends for Lamboozi's poltroonery and thieving conduct.

From Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent by Headley, Joel Tyler

You believed rather the tales you heard of our poltroonery, and impotence of body and mind.

From The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers by Weems, Mason Locke

To poltroonery of one kind or another the Spirit makes no concessions; it wears the face of a hard master to all pusillanimous demands.

From Religious Perplexities by Jacks, L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall)

Without James's mingled poltroonery and tyranny to nurse and stimulate it, it is doubtful if Puritanism would have had its spasm of ascendency.

From The Ifs of History by Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar

Maddened by the apparent poltroonery of his troops, he seized a musket, and, rushing forward, commenced battering at the door with its butt.

From The Funny Philosophers Wags and Sweethearts by Yellott, George