He then told them he wanted no cowards on deck, and requested those who were willing to fight to go down the starboard, and those who were unwilling the larboard gangway.
Already the Taeehs and Happahs were beginning to wonder at the delay, and rumors spread about the village that the whites were really the cowards for which the Typees took them.
But you have abused the meaning, and awakened in the minds of cowards a desire for that criminal happiness, which consists in forgetting others, and in enjoying what is unnecessary.
We'll be better, I promise, we won't be cowards any more.
Very, you've made me seem like a miserable cowards that man will despise me, and insult us more than ever.
We make nearly all our own troubles, my boy; and then men are such cowards that they run away from them.
You are assisted in your damaging work by the tyrannous ways of a village--villagers watch each other and so make cowards of each other.
You are assisted in your damaging work by the tyrannous ways of a village-- villagers watch each other and so makecowards of each other.
War is upon us, and we can not ascowards retreat before it.
When your houses are on fire, and you see your wives and children dragged off by soldiers, then these cowards will be turned into valiant warriors, who can at least defend their lives and the honor of their families!
The men of the border did not overcome and dispossess cowards and weaklings; they marched forth to spoil the stout-hearted and to take for a prey the possessions of the men of might.
Courts for cowards were erected, Churches built to please the priest.
Love, however, the sovereign ruler, who makes even cowards heroes, animated him.
Finally, the leaders were themselves so prompt and terrible in their punishments, that the greatest cowards were likely to show the boldest bearing, in their wish to escape suspicion.
I'm too old to run away," shouted Stefan, "and the company of cowardsis not to my liking.
Cowards to treat her thus," came the muttered answer in a man's lower tone.
I perceive that they were only the cowards who fled from Sturatzberg to these hills; the brave hearts remain in the city.
Then the cowards finding, like the hare who ran by the pond and the frogs scuttled into the water, that there was a creature they could frighten, giggled and enjoyed their prowess.
It lacks but an hour of dusk, and you must pass nigh a wood where lurk some thousands of these half-starved vermin, rank cowards single; but in great bands bold as lions.
The fish-hawks must be miserablecowards to be driven by such a speck of a bird.
He came in all sorts and shapes, all colors and sizes--just as cowards do.
Even the headboard which once stood at the Kid's grave--and which was once riddled with bullets by cowards who would not have dared to shoot that close to him had he been alive--was gone.
But the supple cowards of the Senate proved equal to the strain.
They were all cut to pieces, as the cowards deserved, at the call of the crowd, 'give it them.
Shall tyrants desecrate the sod Our fathers hallowed with their blood, Or cowardstread where heroes trod?
Unclaimed by the land that bore us, Lost in the land we find The brave have gone before us, Cowards are left behind!
Stay not like cowards from the battle-field; But with your armor on, march where the roar Of cannon tells you that your brothers bleed!
Instead of conscience making cowards of us all, passion makes brutes of us all, and we forget conscience and cowardice, too, under the intoxicant of a woman's smile.
And in the same way the Indians now stare at us as if we were beings of a superior order, or rather gods, as they term us, they would then consider us cowards and poltroons.
He immediately issued orders for every one to join his standard, and those who refused should be sent back to our head-quarters, there to be punished by Cortes as cowards and deserters.
Would he not look upon them ascowards and spiritless beings?
Like all hooligans they were thorough cowards unless backed up by vastly superior numbers.
In this way cowards take revenge for imaginary slights or dignified rejections.
Thus Conscience does make cowards of us all," thought I, as I observed his futile attempts to recover his self-possession.
Then with his last breath he thus upbraided his false friends:-- "Cowards and traitors, ye!
None but cowards give up an undertaking once begun," answered Siegfried.
Oh, none but cowards send down their brain-trucks in tempest time.
But if these, As I am sure they do, bear fire enough To kindle cowards and to steel with valor The melting spirits of women, then, countrymen, What need we any spur but our own cause To prick us to redress?
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.
Miserable panders to the prejudices of the age; loud in condemning sins nobody is guilty of, but miserablecowards when it is necessary to speak out for God.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cowards" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
