Dissension, ambition, andpoltroonery were delivering France over to the foreigner.
Chancellor Seguier had the poltroonery to accept the presidency of the council, offered him by the Duke of Orleans; he thus avenged himself for the preference the, queen had but lately shown for Mole by confiding the seals to him.
It is mere bullying to wish to profit by the poltroonery of those whom one makes to feel the weight of one's arm.
Do you not make use of mypoltroonery to hinder me from entering our house?
Or, in other words, since they must be selfish, let them be so without the poltrooneryof selfishness.
He dropped his cudgel and walked back to his office, followed by Wiggins, who was intensely disgusted at the poltroonery of his principal.
Having finished his repast, he arose from the table, and going to his apartment, proceeded to prepare the placard in which he intended to make known the poltroonery of Botts to the public.
Maddened by the apparent poltrooneryof his troops, he seized a musket, and, rushing forward, commenced battering at the door with its butt.
He had gone on his knees, held back from my feet by the Oneida; and his poltroonery so sickened me that I could scarce see what I wrote down in my carnet.
In the light of later events, I now realize that their apparent poltroonery arose not from individual cowardice.
So much moral weakness and political changeableness, so much poltroonery or indulgence towards evil and blind passions disquieted serious minds, and profoundly shook the public credit.
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