white-livered

• “The Meat boys are determined not to make any concessions to the white-livered weaker players among us: having run through its first world, I can assure you that there's essentially no such thing as a safe landing in any of Meat Boy's levels until you've reached the end.”

  Ten for 2010: the 10 most-anticipated games coming in the new year Boing Boing

• ““A duel with a white-livered traitor like yerself?””

  Simon & Schuster: Much Ado About Marriage

• “The manner in which Judas grew more white-livered over his victuals, and languished, with his head on one side, as if he had no appetite, defies all description.”

  Pictures from Italy

• “The exact particulars of the similarity never came to light, but apparently the lady had, in a fit of high-minded inadvertence, had gone through the ceremony of marriage with, one quotes the unpublished discourse of Mr. Butteridge — “a white-livered skunk,” and this zoological aberration did in some legal and vexatious manner mar her social happines.”

  The War in the Air

• ““Let the white-livered cowards have their way,” the old sailor said, contemptuously.”

  Mary Anerley

• ““De Hamal is an unutterable puppy, besides being a very white-livered hero.””

  Villette

• “By this worthy frock of mine, quoth Friar John, thou hast a mind to slip thy neck out of the collar and absent thyself from the fight, thou white-livered son of a dunghill!”

  Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel

• “My son is a coward — a white-livered mongrel dog — but all of Rome shall know him a coward under our name.”

  The First Man in Rome

• “Tve but come from the last wine-shop open - Ishtar's curse on these white-livered reformers who close the grog-houses!”

  The Conan Chronicles

• “` I've but come from the last wine-shop open Ishtar's curse on these white-livered reformers who close the grog-houses!”

  Black Colossus

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