"White-livered" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I tell you, you snuffling, whimpering, white-livered cur!' he said. 'Those men have got away with ...
— The Gold-Stealers - A Story of Waddy • Edward Dyson
... that white-livered hypocrite, it is useless for me to try to convince you. But, if you must know it,—though, mind you, I tell you this only because you compel me,—I once interfered, because my conscience forced me to do so, in a very disgraceful love-affair of his in Denmark. ...
— Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories • Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
... I am, I have observed these three swashers. I am boy to them all three: but all they three, though they would serve me, could not be man to me; for, indeed, three such antics do not amount to a man. For Bardolph,—he is white-livered, and red-faced; by the means whereof 'a faces it out, but fights not. For Pistol,—he hath a killing tongue, and a quiet sword; by the means whereof 'a breaks words, and keeps whole weapons. For Nym,—he hath heard, that men of a few words are the best men; and therefore he scorns ...
— The American Union Speaker • John D. Philbrick
... that damned rooibaatje," he broke out. "You used not to be like this before. Curse him, the white-livered Englishman! I will be even with him yet; and I tell you what it is, Bessie: you shall marry me, whether you like or no. Look here, do you think I am the sort of man to play with? You go to Wakkerstroom and ask what sort of a man Frank Muller is. See! I want you—I ...
— Jess • H. Rider Haggard
... "Thou white-livered [our ancestors believed literally that cowards had white livers] dolt!" cried Dr Thorpe sharply, and took the matchlock out of his hands. "Go behind for a child ...
— Robin Tremain - A Story of the Marian Persecution • Emily Sarah Holt
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