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...stop and get away." A broken head is soon remedied, but a cold leaden pill or a cruel thrust of a knife has cost many a life, and any one who resorts to these weapons, excepting when his life is in danger, is a contemptible coward, without a spark of manhood in his breast, and a disgrace to the Anglo-Saxon race. The accomplishment of boxing should be a part of every American boy's education, as much as fencing or quarter-staff was in the days of "Bluff King...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 3/21/1882 | See Source »

...seemed to be walking down a long hall, that ever opened before me in an endless vista. At last, far off, white and pale, I saw the figure of a woman coming towards me swiftly, terribly, like a ghost; I, coward enough in my dream, tried to turn away from her. I could stir neither hand nor foot. I pray God I may never again experience that feeling of powerless, supernatural terror. She drew nearer and nearer; and I recognized the face of Bertha Carlin. Then suddenly she stopped, pointed backward; the hall disappeared, the broad sea was before...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A DREAM AND A REALITY. | 12/10/1880 | See Source »

...have been giving a burlesque of Bizet's "Carmen" during the week. The last performances of this piece, which is a tolerably good burlesque of a very pretty opera, will be given to-night and to-morrow. Escamillo, the valiant torreador of the original opera, is made a great coward, from whom Don Jose has little trouble in winning Carmen. Mme. Dolaro, who plays in the title-role, is a charming actress, and a very pretty woman. Miss Williams plays her part very cleverly. Next week, "La Fille du Tambour Major," by the same company. October 25, "Voyagers in Southern...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE THEATRES. | 10/15/1880 | See Source »

...sure you are no coward, and I would not have you become one by putting in the plea of human frailty. What men are it is our duty to consider only as the starting-point to what men may be. To justify our acts by other men's is to set up an external standard which, in politics for instance, would induce corruption to grow stronger and in thirty years destroy this nation. We've had enough servility. No emancipation proclamation was ever more urgently needed than that which shall release the countless slaves of public opinion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD COLLEGE. | 6/23/1876 | See Source »

Crouched like a coward from the light

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BLACK MOUNTAIN. | 1/9/1874 | See Source »

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