craven-crested

Updated: May 27, 2025

And, besides, Lutin and his master laughed at you, my lord, for letting it be thought that I shame to speak it that ye were over well with the wife of the decent honest man whose house you but now left, as not sufficient for your new bravery, whereas they said, the licentious scoffers, that you pretended to such favour when you had not courage enough for so fair a quarrel, and that the sparrow-hawk was too craven-crested to fly at the wife of a cheesemonger."

Sir Walter Scott - The Fortunes of Nigel