Faint of heart

Usage examples of craven.

And how quickly he regained his domineering manner once it was slaked, the falsehearted craven.

Madame Swetchine enjoyed friendships of extraordinary strewth and preciousness with the Countess de Nesselrode, the Princess Galitzin, Madame de Saint Aulaire, the Duchess de Duras, the Marchioness de Lillers, Madame Craven, the Duchess de la Rochefoucauld, and many other women of noble natures and rich interior lives.

And Tolteca, whose charge they were, broke its ranks like cravens, and let the Mias through!

This is the year that commissioners have brought new dimensions to the word craven.

All through that weary night my uncle and I, with Belcher, Berkeley Craven, and a dozen of the Corinthians, searched the country side for some trace of our missing man, but save for that ill-boding splash upon the road not the slightest clue could be obtained as to what had befallen him.

They tell me you have welded a fine body of fighting men out of consular cravens and taught all of us how best to deal with rebellious slaves.

Force Has never being from celestial source, And is the lord of cravens, not of men.

Rains, and the knights are bored out of their minds from inaction and drunk or wenching most of the time, and there is no one left to serve me but cravens and fools and traitorous tricksters plotting to take my kingdom once the Ruwendian demon-trulls have finished me off!

But this craven melting in his heart was rebuked by a very worthy pride, that flew for support to the injury she had done to his devotions, and the offence to the sacred edifice.

Craven knew and as Grimes knew, theory and practice do not always coincide.

It is a spell of light and power-- The watchword of the free:-- Who spurns it in the trial-hour, A craven soul is he!

Indeed, most of our nomologists at home believe that all taboos originally arose out of ancestral ghost-worship, and sprang from the craven fear of dead kings or dead relatives.

As he stared at the broken bauble, the big, muscular man began to cry and moan of how the Holy See and its chosen captain, di Bolgia, had ruined him and Munster, driving loyal bonaghts and galloglaiches and even noble FitzGerald kinsmen away from their loving sovran, leaving him and Munster now defenseless except for craven, money-grubbing oversea mercenaries, with no true loyalty of bravery in them not reckoned in grams of gold and ounces of silver.

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We are glad that he has concluded never to revisit our town, altho', incredible as it may appear, the fellow really did contemplate so doing last summer, when, still true to the craven instincts of his black heart, he wrote the hireling knaves of the obscure journal across the street to know what they would charge for 400 small bills, to be done on yellow paper!