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  • Unfortunately, the Left have so cowed the Tory Party in this country that the Pusillanimous Pair were not prepared to raise even a the shadow of a counter argument to Brown's ridiculous 50p gesture - he really was rubbing it in!

    Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege 2009

  • Promoted to Headline (H3) on 8/23/09: What a Revolt of the Left Means yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'What a Revolt of the Left Means'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Pusillanimous leadership and outright moral and political cowardice characterize the Obama presidency.

    What a Revolt of the Left Means 2009

  • Pusillanimous sloganeers, devoid of fortitude and vision, and after 100 hours I'm already sick of the whole lot.

    Here comes your "national nervous breakdown." Ann Althouse 2007

  • Pusillanimous’ is a word that represents to me the constant struggle I wage between the delight in discovery and knowledge and wanting to share that with others, and the need to temper my ego that revels like a glutton in showing off how clever I am.

    Pusillanimous Kirsty 2006

  • Pusillanimous’ is a word that represents to me the constant struggle I wage between the delight in discovery and knowledge and wanting to share that with others, and the need to temper my ego that revels like a glutton in showing off how clever I am.

    Archive 2006-02-01 Kirsty 2006

  • Pusillanimous, and Vicious, however distinguish'd by Birth and Fortune, are held in Contempt, and never admitted to publick Employment!

    A Voyage to Cacklogallinia With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of That Country Captain Samuel Brunt

  • Yes sirree, I was a robber dead-right in those old days; but the Independent editor is safe: he's got nothing but a shirt-tail full o 'pied type and a card of membership in the A.P.A. -- Aggregation of Pusillanimous Asses.

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10 1905

  • Pusillanimous or simply prudent; or perhaps cruelly unjust, to a person who had paid penalties and greatly needed kindness?

    The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson With a memoir by Arthur Symons Ernest Christopher Dowson 1883

  • - Pusillanimous conduct of an Indian helmsman - A zealous botanist - Departure of

    Townsend Chapter 9 1839

  • The Dalles - The party joined by Captain Wyeth - Embarkation in canoes - A heavy gale - Dangerous navigation - Pusillanimous conduct of an Indian helmsman - A zealous botanist - Departure of Captain Wyeth with five men -

    Townsend's Across the Rockies to the Columbia 1839

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