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After that he stood up, and said he had behaved like a coward,
The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor Unknown
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The octopus, the serpent, and the shark, with the heart of a coward,
Pan and Æolus: Poems Charles Hamilton Musgrove
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Sometimes it seems to me that I have never really been a Negro, that I have been only a privileged spectator of their inner life; at other times I feel that I have been a coward,
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man James Weldon Johnson 1904
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He will tell you himself that the true sportsman is never a snob, a coward,
Treatise on Parents and Children George Bernard Shaw 1903
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When I have done something to insure their safety, or at least to prove that I am not a coward,
An Original Belle Edward Payson Roe 1863
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Hark ye; if ye find Pip, tell all the Antilles he's a runaway; a coward, a coward,
Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855
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Scorn and prize to the sailor: but my prize now; for a coward,
Andromeda and Other Poems Charles Kingsley 1847
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Ile through, and through you, and thou great siz'd coward,
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[To LUCIO] You, sirrah, that knew me for a fool, a coward,
Measure for Measure 1604
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_ And for any thing I know, I am an arrant coward,
The Little French Lawyer A Comedy John Fletcher 1602
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