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_Poltron_ is one of his best, and the story goes that his valet, who had been a soldier, having seen him perform it, gave him warning the next morning, declaring that he could not possibly remain in the service of so inveterate a coward.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 Various
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Poltron as I was, to think of sinking into the docile, domesticated, timid animal called husband!
Anna St. Ives Thomas Holcroft 1777
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But if on the contrary, he cryeth out they esteem him but as a Poltron or Coward, and unworthy of any memory.
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