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"I'll see about it; I may possibly be wanting some money soon." At this La Normande assumed an air of doubt, shrugged her shoulders, and told him that he was really too chicken-hearted. Her one great aim now was to embroil him with the Quenu-Gradelles, and she employed every means she could think of to effect her purpose, both anger and banter, as well as affectionate tenderness.
I said courage is a heart quality. These ten thousand were not chicken-hearted nor downhearted. They were lion-hearted, stout-hearted. They had hearts of oak. It was a keen stroke of generalship on Gideon's part that sent the timid, discouraged ones back home. Nothing is more demoralizing than the presence of such people.
Are these the iron-vigoured ones that survived the hardships from Baltimore to the Horn, and are fitted to survive anything? Then for a De Vries to take them, save them, and out of them found the hardiest breed of chickens on the planet! And after this I shall always query that phrase, most ancient in our language "chicken-hearted." Measured by the Elsinore's chickens, it is a misnomer.
'How can you arrive at your journey's end sound and hearty if you sit like a sick fowl upon a perch? Laugh, man, and be merry, or I will give you something to weep for. Out on you, you chicken-hearted swab, to sulk and fret like a babe new weaned! Have you not all that heart could desire? Give him a touch with the rope's-end, Jem, if ever you do observe him fretting.
"I don't expect you to take my word. Hull is in front of the house here under guard. Come an' see if you doubt it." She took him promptly at his suggestion. One look at her husband's fat, huddled figure and stricken face was enough. "You chicken-hearted louse," she spat at him scornfully. "They had evidence. A man saw us," he pleaded. "What man?" "This man." His trembling hand indicated Olson.
"You might faint or something, and I'd be shut in here till somebody remembered to hunt for me." "Bah!" exclaimed Hawkins, slamming the door, violently. "Really, for a grown man, you're the most chicken-hearted individual I ever met. But what's the use of talking about it? To get back to explosives " "Oh, never mind the explosives," I said wearily. "You're right, and that settles it."
It is unpardonable that he should lend his ear to preachers, and other chicken-hearted persons, demeaning himself as if he were willing to fire, and yet to allow himself to be led in from the bulwark between the preachers. When the frigates had sailed past, he became so troubled that he must then first go out to prevent their landing.
Can'st thou not think of some means to catch him"? "Well, Father Pierre, I wouldn't like "Wouldn't like what!" shouted the old man, "perhaps thou art afraid of the popinjay in his red coat eh, thou chicken-hearted fellow? Thou art not the man I took thee for. I wonder not at Marguerite speaking as she does." "Those are hard words and I like them not," replied Jacques sulkily.
By and by Joe timidly ventured upon a roundabout "feeler" as to how the others might look upon a return to civilization not right now, but Tom withered him with derision! Huck, being uncommitted as yet, joined in with Tom, and the waverer quickly "explained," and was glad to get out of the scrape with as little taint of chicken-hearted homesickness clinging to his garments as he could.
"I may carry a spare weapon for you, I hope?" "Ah, you will go with me? Thank you: I shall be glad of someone to carry the lantern. We may have to do some scrambling: Narracott is infirm, and Roger," this was the footman "is a chicken-hearted fellow, I suspect." The two men armed themselves and went back to the hall, where Father Halloran in silence took the lantern from the butler.
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