1 War romances, war weddings, deaths in hospitals and on the field, incidents of camp and battle and march, gallantry, cowardice, humor, sadness, deprivation and hope.
2 What Melanie said was no more than Scarlett had been thinking but hearing it put into words infuriated her, shamed her as if her secret cowardice was written plainly in her face.
3 She had made many sharp remarks about his cowardice and the memory of them made her feel guilty.
4 Perhaps it was cowardice that kept me away so long.
5 reproaching them for cowardice or commending their.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 27 6 He had not forgotten a whit of their cowardice and cruelty but the memory of it called forth no anger from him.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 2 7 It was not conscience that made me do so: it was a sort of cowardice.
8 Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil.
9 Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.
10 His mood of cowardice had passed away.
11 Don't imagine, though, it was cowardice made me slink away from the officer; I never have been a coward at heart, though I have always been a coward in action.
12 I did not slink away through cowardice, but through an unbounded vanity.
13 The general and colonel looked sternly and significantly at one another like two fighting cocks preparing for battle, each vainly trying to detect signs of cowardice in the other.
14 During the first period of his service, hard as he tried and much as he reproached himself with cowardice, he had not been able to do this, but with time it had come of itself.
15 As the period fixed for our marriage drew nearer, whether from cowardice or a prophetic feeling, I felt my heart sink within me.