My knees did quake, and the veriest poltroon might have well been ashamed of the overweening fear which possessed me.

The insult was point blank, and would have aroused the veriest poltroon; but Arroyo possessed only the courage of the vulture.

The government will maintain itself or our northern people are the veriest poltroons that ever disgraced humanity.

At first, one is ready to conclude either that they must have a private understanding with the robbers or else be the veriest poltroons.