单词 | faintheartedness |
例句 | I regarded this as a tragedy, for Dr. Moroka’s faintheartedness in court took away some of the glow from the campaign. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The automobiles’ delicate constitutions and general faintheartedness soon became a source of scorn. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In moments, he seems preoccupied by his own faintheartedness. Doug Paisley’s Winter Melancholy on “Starter Home” 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z The administration’s disingenuous explanations mask what looks like political faintheartedness — a fear that Republicans will use immigration generally as a cudgel against the president. Opinion | The White House is creating a smokescreen for why it hasn’t raised refugee admissions 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z Six months of domination are now threatened to be wiped away by a week of faintheartedness. Column: Title chasers or chokers? Dodgers in precarious spot heading into Game 5 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z As if aware of such faintheartedness, he ends the book with a beautiful examination of Martin Luther King, Jr.—in particular the celebrated last speech he gave, in Memphis. If God Is Dead, Your Time Is Everything 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z They were guilty, she said, of “faintheartedness”—the sort of insult that only a lady could deploy. Ted Cruz Is Not Afraid to Lose 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z And when he came to Saul, there was not the slightest trace of fear or faintheartedness about him. The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel 2012-04-08T02:00:20.427Z She showed no faintheartedness at its hardships; far from it. Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume II. 2011-02-18T03:00:19.343Z It is a melancholy task to represent to oneself the feelings which worked in these victims; destroyed hopes, faintheartedness under violence, and heart-rending grief over a ruined life. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. One of the chief leaders, a stubborn, daring old man of seventy years of age, while still in chains, complained of the faintheartedness of his bands. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. But then compensation for faintheartedness or spite abounds in the letters of the staunch. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) Why, if I let that girl drop now, she'd despise me for my faintheartedness. The Deaves Affair And little short of this misery is one who dreads some approaching evil, and who, through faintheartedness, is under continual suspense. The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero Yet their only failing was their faintheartedness; they feared the heavens would fall upon them. Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost But Antinous reviled him for his faintheartedness, and made Melanthius bring fat to anoint the bow and make it supple; yet even thus they strove in vain to stretch it. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life I hope, Captain Saint Leger, that if my manner has seemed to you a little curious to-night, you will not put it down to timorousness, or faintheartedness, or anything of that sort. The Cruise of the "Esmeralda" This view of the case was so reasonable, that Fred rallied and half smiled at his own faintheartedness. The Hunters of the Ozark The doyen protested, but with a discernible faintheartedness. Despair's Last Journey Their last hope was in my hoped-for faintheartedness. Southern Arabia Such habits were of the family of faintheartedness, which he abhorred. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 She was touched by his faintheartedness; he who nevertheless seemed to be about thirty years old. Invisible Links Between it and himself stretched the weary generations still to come, generations of bickering and accusation, greed and faintheartedness, and half truth and the hasty blow. Mr. Britling Sees It Through Admitting that no great cleverness is needed for serving in our Zemstvo, for example, yet I suffer from . . . the devil knows what, a sort of faintheartedness, I haven't a ha'p'orth of pluck. The Chorus Girl and Other Stories Even the Pennsylvania society showed signs of faintheartedness, and in 1806 the Convention decided upon triennial rather than annual meetings. A Social History of the American Negro Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States. Including A History and Study of the Republic of Liberia The refractory sailors, ashamed of their own faintheartedness, begged pardon, and promised to act henceforth according to our orders. MacMillan's Reading Books Book V The Knight of the Cart blames and reproaches himself for faintheartedness when he sees his host watching him and notices all the others looking on. Four Arthurian Romances Half a dozen times he had taken steps to leave the Moonlight Quill and soar upward, but through sheer faintheartedness he had stayed on. Tales of the Jazz Age "All," he said, "is lost—the cowardly villains have mutinied, and will not move; and the blame of their sloth and faintheartedness will be laid on my dear master." The Betrothed "If you persist in accusing me of faintheartedness, Mr. Crosby, I'll never speak to you again," she said. The Day of the Dog This display of faintheartedness won the keen ridicule of the French, and the Governor, D'Abadie, with mock magnanimity, offered an escort of French soldiery to protect the party on its way back to Pensacola! The Old Northwest : A chronicle of the Ohio Valley and beyond We are not met upon a battle-field, except so far as every laborious achievement means a victory over opposition, indifference, selfishness, faintheartedness, and that great property of mind as well as matter,—inertia. Medical Essays, 1842-1882 Fits of enthusiasm and fits of faintheartedness succeeded each other. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 His Majesty, bitterly complaining of Pitt's faintheartedness, tried to break the coalition. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3 Finally, there is his conscience—the accumulated sediment of ancestral faintheartedness in countless generations, with vague religious fears and superstitions to leaven and mellow it. In Defense of Women The allies met in Lacedaemon, and arguments were adduced on the part of the allies to show that faintheartedness would very soon lead to their being absolutely worn out by the war. Hellenica |
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