She ran upstairs, and immediately one of the most beggarly, sordid, and pusillanimous knocks that ever spoke of starvation and misery was heard at the door.
The moment he entered the dock, it was observed that his face expressed all the pusillanimous symptoms of the most unmanly terror.
In the second, in the vigor of manhood, it was withdrawn by a mysterious and pusillanimous policy from the ocean.
But the pusillanimous policy which prompted the embargo survived its repeal.
Whoever was arraigned at their bar was almost certain to meet a virulent prosecutor, a judge hardly distinguishable from the prosecutor except by his ermine, and a passive pusillanimous jury.
The nation was indeed pusillanimous and base; but the last Constantine deserves the name of a hero: his noble band of volunteers was inspired with Roman virtue; and the foreign auxiliaries supported the honor of the Western chivalry.
But the success of a foreign enemy was less painful to the pusillanimous Robert than the insolence of his Latin subjects, who confounded the weakness of the emperor and of the empire.
By this pusillanimous act he stained the honors of a military life; and the few days which he survived in Galata, or the Isle of Chios, were embittered by his own and the public reproach.
Either, like a pusillanimous coward, he turned tail, or there is some disgraceful entanglement which holds him back!
That pusillanimous female submitted to pay a tribute, the double of which she ought to have exacted from the Barbarians.
I was glad we had had that experience, because it showed me that after all it was possible to make brave men of men who were absolutely pusillanimous before.
But in moments of danger it was one of the most pusillanimous animals I have ever possessed.
The pusillanimous idea that we had friends in England worth keeping terms with still haunted the minds of many.
Speaking of the friends to the British cause in North Carolina he wrote, "If they are as dastardly and pusillanimous as our friends to the southward, we must leave them to their fate.
He retreated from her, and he has been rewarded for his pusillanimous act.
Kent then arose and said: "Gentlemen, we should thank Mr. Rolf Harlow for saving us the trouble of an investigation by frankly acknowledging himself the contemptible and pusillanimous scoundrel which he is.
He becamepusillanimous and supine, and openly exposed to any temptation.
Possibly the doubtful character of the Prince's first campaign was less his fault than that of his pusillanimous enemies.
The pusillanimousprince feared to accept the services of 500 men who had been sent to defend him.
The Siamese cruel in the invention of tortures, are too cowardly and too weak to bear them; and their example is another proof that cruelty is a vice that accompanies a pusillanimous character.
Senator Hale thought the course of Northern representatives and senators pusillanimous and submissive to the last degree; and no considerations of taste prevented him from expressing his opinions on all occasions.
Mason denounced his letter to Virginia gentlemen as a "puny, pusillanimous attempt to hoodwink" the people of Virginia.
Galba and the Roman army revolted against him, and the pusillanimous Cæsar fled bare-footed, and wrapped in a sordid robe.
The insult went still further: it was said of a pusillanimous man, “That he had a pompion where his heart ought to have been.
Had they wished to bring to account the real authors of the fatal decree, they ought to have seized not on the pusillanimous consul, but on the section of the strict aristocracy which had urged the timorous man to that execution.
Deprived of the animating presence of their two generals, the Bavarians gave way at last, and Maximilian, in spite of his own judgment, was driven to adopt a pusillanimous resolve.
After the usual manner of pusillanimous spirits, he sought to confirm himself in his purpose by the opinions of others; but these opinions had no weight with him when they ran counter to his own cherished wishes.
The former is noble, daring, Titanic; the latter is pusillanimous and weak.
This mostpusillanimous practice was one day made the theme of conversation in a large party in London, where Doctor Franklin dined.
The enervated soldiers abandoned their own and the public defence; and their pusillanimous indolence may be considered as the immediate cause of the downfall of the empire.
This shameful abdication was suspended, however, by the spirit of doubt and delay, which commonly adheres to pusillanimous counsels, and sometimes corrects their pernicious tendency.
Do not allow yourself, in choosing between right and wrong, to be governed by a fear of future punishment, or hope of future reward, for this is cowardly and pusillanimous and of no practical value to your future happiness.
It only has a sickly foothold where the people are spiritually dominated by an ignorant orpusillanimous priesthood.
He recognized his fate, and surrendered to the Romans at discretion with his children and his treasures, pusillanimous and weeping so as to disgust even his conquerors.
Mahomet did not deign to put forth all his strength against the pusillanimous tyrants of Greece.
