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The Berlin journal, the Post, went so far as to call the Kaiser ce poltron misérable for giving up South Morocco; and it was clear that a large section of the German people ardently desired war with the Western Powers.
In response the old man with grotesque solemnity drew his buckhorn handled knife, licked its blade and returned it to its sheath, a bit of pantomime well understood and keenly enjoyed by the onlooking creoles. "Putois! coquin!" they jeered, "goujat! poltron!"
"This is your Englishman your Kew, whom you vaunt everywhere," said Stenio to M. de Florac, who was standing by and witnessed the scene. "Is he simply bete, or is he poltron as well? I believe him to be both." "Silence, Victor!" cried Florac, seizing his arm, and drawing him away. "You know me, and that I am neither one or the other.
See Map of English Channel, etc., p. 107. That is, nearly motionless. Hoste: Naval Tactics. Seignelay, the French minister of marine of the day, called him "poltron de tête, mais pas de coeur." The author has followed in the text the traditional and generally accepted account of Tourville's orders and the motives of his action.
Yes, Fairfax, longer to palliate, or wilfully be blind to the partial edicts and haughty ordonnances of this proud beauty, were idiotism! She has presumed too far; I am not quite so tame a creature as she supposes. She shall find I am not the clay, but the potter. I will mould, not be moulded. Poltron as I was, to think of sinking into the docile, domesticated, timid animal called husband!
"In the meanwhile," said Lord Dalgarno, "you will oblige us, Monsieur le Chevalier, as well as maintain your own honoured reputation, by letting your drawers receive the man-at-arms with a cudgel, in case he should venture to come way again." "Ventre saint gris, milor," said the Chevalier, "leave that to me. Begar, the maid shall throw the wash-sud upon the grand poltron!"
But, pardon me, I came here to breakfast, and I cannot remain to quarrel. Come, Lemercier, let us take our chance of a cutlet at the Trois Freres." "Fox, Fox," cried Lemercier, whistling to a poodle that had followed him into the cafe, and, frightened by the sudden movement and loud voices of the habitues, had taken refuge under the table. "Your dog is poltron," said De Breze; "call him Nap."
"Well," said the Prince, "Oliver, though he was a traitor and a villain, was a brave fellow, had great parts, great courage, and was worthy to command; but that Richard, that coxcomb, coquin, poltron, was surely the basest fellow alive. What is become of that fool? How was it possible he could be such a sot?"
"You are a very rebellious slave, monsieur," continues the lady, with a pretty moue, and a glance of the large eyes artfully brightened by her rouge. "Suppose suppose I danced with M. de Kew, not for his sake Heaven knows to dance with him is not a pleasure but for yours. Suppose I do not want a foolish quarrel to proceed. Suppose I know that he is ni sot ni poltron as you pretend.
"That's the second time you have called me so," said Poivre, starting up, his temper rising at a bound to "stormy," and shaking his fist at the other. "And not the last!" shouted Malin, glad to find the other as angry as himself. "I tell you, you are a poltron, before all these gentlemen. You have no more courage than a rabbit, and no more spirit than an old woman. You ran away at Talavera.
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