10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PIGEON-HEARTED»
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DON'T. THE common pigeon, that cocky bird that struts about our streets as
though he owned the city, is a pest. An aunt of mine battled a pair of pigeons for
20 years and she never won a campaign. She hosed them, bombarded them with
...
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Life of Abraham Lincoln: For the young man and the Sabbath ...
PIGEON-HEARTED." 131 two left ; that is no more than right.' She took the paper,
and reverently placing her hand again upon his head, the tears still upon her
cheeks, said : ' The Lord bless you, Mr. Lincoln. May you live a thousand years, ...
William Cunningham Gray, 1869
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Life of Abraham Lincoln
Being both of us pigeon-hearted fellows, the chances are that, if there is any
ground whatever for interference, the scoundrel will get off! ' " * Instances similar
to the preceding were constantly recurring during the last eventful years of Mr.
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Studies in the Lexical Field of Expectation
(adjectives) hen-hearted l522-(l8l5) X COWARDICE; beastly l584 X
COWARDICE; pigeon-hearted l62l—; sheeped l626; sheep- like al653; chicken-
hearted l68l— X COWARDICE; shrimphearted 1796 X COWARD1CE; chicken-
spirited 1828 ...
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Dictionary of St. Lucian Creole
... pak kochon; pigtail, n., latche kochon; pig-skin, ichwi ki fet ek lapo kochon;
piggish, a., kon kochon; sal; vowas. pigeon, n., pijon; carrier-pigeon, n., pijon
vwayaje; to pluck a pigeon, plimen on pijon; pigeon-hearted, a., ni kwentif;
pigeon-hole, ...
Jones E. Mondesir, Lawrence D. Carrington, 1992
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英粤字典: Cantonese in Yale Romanization
gingchaat (M: go) VO: sàang jyùjái * pig bed N: jyúläan (M: go) * pig-tail N: bin (M
: tiuh) pigeon N: О baahkgáap (M: jek) © sôhjái (M: go) © (U.S.A.) néuihjái(M: go)
FV: fànleuih * pigeon-breasted SV: gàihúng ge * pigeon-hearted SV: dáamsíu ...
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Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
605; weak-, faint-, chicken—, hen-, lily-, pigeon-hearted; white—, lily-, milk-livered
; milksop, smock-faced; unable to say “ Bo ” to a goose. dastard, -ly; base, cravcn,
sneaking, dunghill, recrcant; unwar-, unsoldicrlike. “ in face a lion but in heart a ...
Christopher Orlando Sylvester Mawson
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Glossaries Of Americanisms V
Lily-hearted: pigeon-hearted; milk-livered; smock-faced. phr. To show the white-
teather; in face a lion, but in heart a deer; the devil take the hindmost: suave qui
peut .' ante tubam trepidat; one's courage oozing out. Credit. adv. On tick or tally.
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Studies in Descriptive and Historical Linguistics: ...
... chicken-hearted (-livered), cock-eyed, eagle-eyed (-sighted, -winged), fawn-
colored, hawk-eyed, pheasant-eyed, pigeon-hearted (-livered), pig-headed,
swallow-tailed, weasel-worded, zebra-striped. Cf. Homer's ox-eyed Juno.
German uses ...
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The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review
... to the war of words. But I at length, after every attempt of freethinking, despair of
such a progress towards improvement in others, and so much indulgence for us.
The pigeon hearted meniltls of principle will not only rail at us for pretending to ...
Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, 1804
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PIGEON-HEARTED»
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Vice Air Marshal (R) Shahid Latif erred urinate fearing Indian jets …
Altaf Hussain ridiculed Shahid Latif by quoting an incident when, according to Altaf, the Rtd. Vice Air Marshal is such a pigeon-hearted that he ... «The News Teller, Jul 15»
Interview: Stars & Creators Of 'Your Highness' Quest The Way They …
His heinous act forces the valiant Fabious to seek the aid of his pigeon-hearted brother, Thadeous (McBride), and the truly bloodthirsty ... «Screen Rant, Apr 11»
