10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WHITE-LIVERED»
Discover the use of
white-livered in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
white-livered and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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"Competition for the Virgin Soil of Kansas": Gendered and ...
Some descriptions of the doughfaces' lack of courage used phrases like "chicken
- livered" and "white-livered." A Bake-pan for the Dough-faces, for example,
described northern Democrats as "pale-blooded, chicken-livered, and dough-
faced.
Brie Anna Swenson Arnold, 2008
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The Merriam-Webster New Book of Word Histories
A person deficient in choler, and so white-livered, would be spiritless and a
coward. Shakespeare, in Henry V, described a cowardly braggart: ". . . hee is
white-liuer'd, and red-faced: by the means whereof a' faces it out, but fights not."
Though ...
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Common Phrases: And Where They Come From
White-Livered. Someone cowardly and weak is often referred to as “lily- livered.”
In ancient days the liver, not the heart, was considered the place where amorous
affections were located, and a man's love was only as good as his liver.
Myron Korach, John Mordock
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Early American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases
See S379. W138 To be White-livered 1797 Cobbett Porcupine 6.91: Making the "
white livered" Peter Porcupine run away. 1806 Fessenden Modern Philosopher
205: Many white-livered dastards . . . have shown a disposition to remain neuter.
Bartlett Jere Whiting, 1977
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Simon & Schuster Super Crossword Puzzle Dictionary And ...
... 11 lily- livered; 12 Gallus gallus, white-livered; 13 yellow-bellied; 14
chickenhearted chicken cacciatore: 14 hunter's chicken; 17 chicken cacciatora
chicken coop: coop; 7 hencoop; 8 henhouse chicken feed: 11 small change
chickenhearted: ...
Seth Godin, Lark Productions LLC, Seth Godin Productions, 1999
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The Second Part of King Henry IV
450 becomes Either a singular form for the plural, referring to 'shapes', or
depending on 'sherris-sack'. 451 warming of the blood Proverbial: 'Good wine
makes good blood' (Tilley W461). 452-3 liver . . . cowardice 'white-livered' is a
frequent ...
William Shakespeare, Giorgio Melchiori, 2007
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A Manual of English Gujarati Dictionary
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UtT 4o. (J) To go from house to house working by the day: 5^?l< ^<l^ 4fM 40. n. \
lash for driving: the utuiost haste: stejlw €cui«i; W. hand: *f>^\ 6i«i; aifjzumvi ...
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The Pirate Primer: Mastering the Language of Swashbucklers ...
(Adam Pen- feather, Adam Penfeather, Buccaneer 301) white-livered [wawt/
whyeet levv/libb/li'-ert] cowardly; without courage or character “Ye're a white-
livered cur when all is said.” (Peter Blood, Captain Blood: His Odyssey 194)
witless ...
niggers and their white livered officers,” white Houstonian W. R. Sinclair railed in
a letter to his congressman, wanted “social equality a là Jack Johnson and his
white Chicago wife.”135 Equating the soldiers of the 24th with Texas-born black ...
Adriane Danette Lentz-Smith, 2010
Knock with thy sword; perhaps the slave will hear. shakebag It will not be; the
white-livered peasant Is gone to bed and laughs us both to scorn. black will And
he shall buy his merriment as dear 40 As ever coistrel bought so little sport. Ne'er
let ...
Martin White, Tom Lockwood, 2013
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WHITE-LIVERED»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
white-livered is used in the context of the following news items.
Spice of life: Sickening humour in a hospital
She, of course, knew more about white-livered people. Nurses all over the country are mostly from Kerala. Why only in our country, even in the Gulf. A typical ... «Hindustan Times, Jul 15»
A 98-year-old woman has been attacked and robbed in …
IF this 'White-Livered' Brute ever does get CAUGHT - HE should be placed in the 'Front-Line' of the Armed Forces to face the Enemy in any battle. This one plus ... «The Northern Echo, Jun 15»
Louisiana's Kingfish: Huey Long's Rise to Power
... conference, saying, Long was “a coward with the conduct of an egg-sucking yellow dog, and a man who lies with a craven heart like a white-livered popinjay.”. «The knoxville focus, Mar 15»
Former amateur boxer jailed for 11 years for savage attack on …
White-livered is TOO polite for this 'POWER-MAD GIT' - Breaking-into the victim's home (Breaking & Entering, + Tresspass,) - Attempted-Murder caused by ... «The Northern Echo, Dec 14»
Could we go to war again?
While bystanders fresh from a nearby bar grabbed his arms, “She pinned a white feather through my coat into my flesh: the badge of white-livered cowardice . «Macleans.ca, Aug 14»
Kwame Nkrumah—The CIA Connection
Then, his white-livered partner, Danquah, on the other hand, a man who reportedly wept like a misguided poltergeist of a stillborn fetus following his ... «GhanaWeb, Apr 14»
Search for family of accused Boer War mutineer after WWI service …
The incident occurred after the Australians were labelled "a useless lot of wasters" and "white-livered curs" by a bombastic British army officer. Australia's first ... «ABC Online, Feb 14»
Douglas Glover: Lists
Old white-livered poltroon. Old pessimist. Old shadow-shuffler. Old passion pit, old lust pot, old leader of men and molester of young horses. A man, in short, ... «National Post, Sep 13»
Patriot & Union - July 1, 1863: 'The Capital of Pennsylvania is safe at …
He reminds us very much of a white-livered citizen of Carlisle who ran away from the rebels, and after he arrived safely in Harrisburg, swore the whole rebel ... «PennLive.com, Jul 13»
Unleash thy inner bard on 'Talk Like Shakespeare Day'
Finally, if you're inclined to yell at the driver who cuts you off as you head to work, why settle for "idiot," when "thou rank white-livered canker-blossom" is so much ... «CNN, Apr 09»
