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Значения термина poor-spirited на английском

Lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution; contemptibly fearful.

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Thus stretched in unmanly indolence on their cushions, they feast on delicacies.
Expositions of Holy Scripture / Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor P...
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I call it unmanly to tease and quarrel, and contradict like that.
What Katy Did at School
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Soft, but with no unmanly softness; luxuriant, but with no unmannered luxury.
Val d'Arno / Ten Lectures on the Tuscan Art Directly Antecedent ...
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To slavishly follow others is, to say the least of it, unmanly.
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O, it was impious; it was unmanly; it was poor and pitiful!
Parker's Second Reader / National Series of Selections for Readi...
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The impulse that drove me from the scene was pusillanimous and cowardly.
Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker
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The tone of the proclamation was so moderate as to seem pusillanimous.
Jefferson and His Colleagues: A Chronicle of the Virginia Dynast...
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They criticized vehemently their rulers' readiness to yield as pusillanimous and injudicious.
Greece and the Allies, 1914-1922
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Did he reject the patriarchal order-likesome poor pusillanimous cry-babies among us?
The Lions of the Lord: A Tale of the Old West
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But the pusillanimous policy which prompted the embargo survived its repeal.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 44, June, 1861 / A Magazine...
Использование термина poor-spirited на английском
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I am sure it is very poor-spirited to be afraid of dragons.
Empire of Ivory
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It would have been a poor-spirited company if there had been none.
Adventures of a Despatch Rider
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After all, Jane was too poor-spirited a victim to afford long entertainment.
The Nether World
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I should be a poor-spirited fool to stay where I'm not wanted.
The Woman Thou Gavest Me; Being the Story of Mary O'Neill
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I suppose I'm a poor-spirited creature, but that is how I feel.
Anne of the Island
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There is no saying what advice some of these poor-spirited courtiers may give.
A March on London: Being a Story of Wat Tyler's Insurrection
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No matter how poor-spirited she seemed, if only she could move his sympathies.
The Nether World
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Messer Gonzaga may be an idle lute-thrummer, a poor-spirited coward; but a traitor--!
Love-at-Arms / Being a Narrative Excerpted from the Chronicles o...
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Seems to be a poor-spirited sort of fellow from all accounts!
A College Girl
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One of those poor-spirited creatures that can be content with the aftermath of love.
Three Comedies
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Yes, I am sadly poor-spirited and I have no excuse.
The Far Horizon
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Are you so tame and so poor-spirited that a threat is to vanquish you?
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But the poor in spirit are not the poor-spirited.
Mornings in the College Chapel / Short Addresses to Young Men on...
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This woman was more mistress of the house than the poor-spirited lady who owned it.
Barry Lyndon
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I hope I am not so poor-spirited as that.
Blood of Tyrants
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But I feel myself a poor-spirited fellow for it.
The Story of Bawn
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