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It is all great fun, but those pigeon-livered little boys who are not diverted by it have to go on with their fun all the same, for, needless to say, the Izji is compulsory on all boys. Of course they wear a uniform which is made in Germany and is of a 'semi-military' character.
and unable to endure the miscreant cry and idiot laugh, withdrew to sigh his last breath in foreign climes. The public is as envious and ungrateful as it is ignorant, stupid, and pigeon-livered A huge-sized monster of ingratitudes. It reads, it admires, it extols, only because it is the fashion, not from any love of the subject or the man.
Wonder what they would do if they had an army actually before them, if they show the white feather this way when there's not a Prussian in sight, hein! Ah no, not any of it in mine, thank you; soldiers don't obey such pigeon-livered gentlemen."
An aristocrat like Palmerston, loving freedom and hating the upstart despotism, must have looked on at its cold brutality not without that ugly question which Hamlet asked himself am I a coward? It cannot be But I am pigeon-livered and lack gall To make oppression bitter; or 'ere this I should have fatted all the region kites With this slave's offal.
He raised a glass of champagne to his lips, but did not drink off the wine, and went on: 'For Hecuba! What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her?... But I'm a dull and muddy mettled-rascal, Who calls me coward? gives me the lie i' the throat? ... Why I should take it; for it cannot be, But I am pigeon-livered and lack gall To make oppression bitter.
I said to my husband, after reading that infamous and slanderous article in the Record, that our men were too pigeon-livered to take that Nigger out and give him what he deserves; and I think it was just such talk from our women in the households that brought about this revolution.
This is my wounded pardner here, and yo'uns can't have neither me nor him till yo'uns down me, which y' can't do. Come on, y' pigeon-livered cowards." The boys who had pressed lip near him, shrank back a little, out of possible range of that violently brandished musket, and began loading their guns. Shorty had stopped for an instant to turn over into an easier position the rebel he had shot.
It must needs be thou art pigeon-livered and lack gall! There is not in thee the swagger, the rustle, the braggadocio of a true swashbuckler manhood. Out on thee! And my soul took the blows in patience. 'Hast thou any courage hid in any crevice of thee? I continued my taunt. And suddenly my soul answered with a firm quiet voice: 'Try me!
On the night before the crime Booth found on whom he could rely. John Surratt was sent northward by his mother on Thursday. Sam Arnold and McLaughlin, each of whom was to kill a cabinet officer, grew pigeon-livered and ran away.
And you'd stand by and see the money given away in that way to enable the man you hate to take away the girl you love! Well, I never . They did say you was faint-hearted, but I never thought to see the like of that in a thing that called itself a man." And so saying, she took herself off. "It cannot be, But I am pigeon-livered, and lack gall, To make oppression bitter,"
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