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For such a mongrel between pig and puppy, begotten by a wild boar on awolf, never before in any age of the world was suffered by the poltroonery of mankind, to run through such a career of mischief.— The Denver Newspaper Agency YourHub.com Stories
In witness of their poltroonery, we set upon the knaves with much promptitude, winning the battlement with but minor effusion of blood, etc. etc. Huzzah!— Rambles at starchamber.com
Dinesh D'Souza, he of the "any chance to dig at atheists" poltroonery -- and somehow manages to do so here -- is taking up the cause of poor George because he wants to embarass brother Barack.— Planet Atheism
We at first fancied that this apparently surreptitious proceeding was perhaps traceable to the awe entertained by the bachelor brothers for their unruly tenants; but we were relieved from the sense of acting in a style bordering on poltroonery, by finding that the principal staircase had been boarded up to preserve its marble steps and sides from injury.— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866
To abandon them to the mercy of the savages, without making an effort to save them, were absolute poltroonery, and would never bear reporting in the settlements.— The Lone Ranche

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