Maurice Gorman was not only a poltroon but a miser, and five hundred pounds were worth more to him than his own daughter.
We have not much to fear from a poltroon like him; but let the Provincial Directory of Ulster deal with the matter.
The last scene of this splendid drama brings forward the poltroon Aegisthus who had skulked behind in the background till the deed was done.
A quiet answer made him imagine he had to deal with a poltroon and he challenged him to a fight.
Like the rest of us I had always set this fellow down as a mere poltroon and windbag, a blower of his own trumpet, as Oliver had called him.
But the royal poltroon had recoiled before the danger connected with such a step.
She had struggled against the sloth of Charles VII, the poltroon whom with so much pain she dragged from victory to victory as far as Rheims, where she had him consecrated King.
He was then but a bag of bones, but when he will have been fatted up, I would wager your neck, Chaplain, that there is not the likes of him in this whole poltroon country of Gaul.
Franc-Taupin, livid with rage and raising his clenched fist heavenward, "call me a wooden-bowled cripple and a lame poltroon if I do not tear up the papists with my very teeth!
It is not very likely that the Roman soldiers would have chosen a poltroon to govern them, or that this poltroon would have passed through all the degrees of the army.
Lactantius, a Christian authority, but rather partial, pretends that Diocletian was the greatestpoltroon of the empire.
That this Sir George Covert should call the patroon a poltroon hurt me, for he was kin to us both; yet it seemed that there might be truth in the insolent fling, for selfishness and poltroonery are too often linked.
Ormond, am I a contemptible poltroon that I should leave you here to endure the consequences of my own negligence?
He insulted you, and then he behaved like a poltroon down at Silverbridge, and I will not have you know him any more.
For the rest, it appears to me that this Monsieur de Mereac might well mourn his living heir rather than his dead son, if he is to be succeeded by this poltroon knave who would hang noble knights in cold blood.
But to this d'Estrailles replied not, seeing that to him it was a thing impossible to dream of, that poltroon lips should touch those rosy ones that had smiled down so short a while since into his heart.
All the poltroon in me came a-top and dragged my better man round about, let fall the pistol from my nerveless fingers and drove me away from that place.
Much did I fear she would never consent to be thus driven from her home, and by such a poltroon as she knew her cousin to be.
Three swords to one was awkward odds; and the red giant, with a companion nearly as large as himself, would no doubt prove very different antagonists from the poltroon with whom I was engaged.
I am not yet such a poltroon that I am afraid to conduct you.
Marshal Lannes said to a French officer, "Know, Colonel, that none but a poltroon will boast that he never was afraid.
My explanation was too incredible for pen and paper; and the poltroon himself, the man who had brought the disgrace upon me, was beyond my identification, even had I known where to look for him.
I left the others to follow, hurried into the lane, and found the poltroon was gone, my drum apparently with him.
Thinking thus—not any penitent in him, but the poltroon that is in all of us at the thought of discovery by the world of what we really are—the woman’s money coldly weighed upon his bosom like a divot.
A poltroon before his arrest, in Court he whimpered and whinnied for mercy; he was carried to the cart pallid and trembling, and not even his preposterous finery availed to hearten him at the gallows.
A large soul had crept into the case of his wizened body, and if a poltroon among his ancestors had gifted him with an alien type, he had inherited from some nameless warrior both courage and resource.
If ten times the poltroon he is, he dare not show the white feather now.
The man who thus readily volunteered his services was as arrant a poltroon as could have been found about the fashionable hostelry in which the conversation was taking place--not excepting Swinton himself.
As to Laurent, he had decidedly become a poltroon since the night he had taken fright when passing before the cellar door.
I am not a poltroon though," he said to himself as he finished dressing.
Vulcan they say is but a poltroon that let pass Mars's adultery without proper revenge; and how can that halting cuckold forge any weapons of note?
The request was granted for some mysterious reason, probably of political origin; and this vulgar poltroon left the army, and the department with no official stigma on his character.
The man who leaped into the Pool the other day, is not the booby and poltroon you would make him, just because you are jealous of him, Captain Hector Coles!
It is only the poltroon who reckons always upon the worst.
I had recognized him as a poltroon and a sneak, but I had not understood the depth of baseness to which he could descend.
I, who have waited as long as Jacob, to be defrauded now I have you; and for the sake of the fellow who killed me in will if not in deed, and then ran away like a poltroon leaving you to bear the brunt!
I wonder what the devil made such a quaking puddingpoltroon think of taking to our trade!
Our knees soon became very intimate, and had frequent meetings of a very sentimental kind: for, she being courageous enough to advance, could I be the poltroon to retreat?
Yes,' said the other, 'as arrant a poltroon as ever I met.
We will not, however, under any circumstances, fight on "poltroon distance.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poltroon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: base; chicken; coward; cowardly; funk; milksop; poltroon; recreant; sneak; unmanly
