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They screamed and groaned, not like women, for few would have been so craven-hearted, but like children; calling, in the intervals of violent pain, upon Jesu, the Madonna, and all the saints of heaven whom their lives had scandalised.

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands Mary Seacole

Then she heard Arthur, that craven-hearted, traitor-souled being she had once called "friend," that she had even desired to impress, -- she heard him saying:

Missy Dana Gatlin

And a coward too, base and craven-hearted, shielding his miserable life with dishonour and treachery.

The Petticoat Commando Boer Women in Secret Service Johanna Brandt 1920

Cliges, who never wished to be numbered among the coward and craven-hearted, notices that he comes alone.

Four Arthurian Romances de Troyes Chr��tien 1914

They would argue from his silence and from his having suffered his brother to be unjustly accused that he was craven-hearted and dishonourable, and that if he had acted thus it was because he had no good defence to offer for his deed.

The Sea-Hawk Rafael Sabatini 1912

The twenty-two, being somewhat craven-hearted, and some of them indisposed by wounds, were on their ways homeward when we were afield.

The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century 1900

An African hut and a tropical sun will not create manhood, develop intelligence, impart industry, foster thrift, nor promote courage in illiterate, craven-hearted, shiftless people; nor will these physical agencies endue them with such transforming qualities of mind or character as will lift a confessedly inferior race to a plane of equality with American citizens.

The American Negro: What He Was, What He Is, and What He May Become: A Critical and Practical Discussion 1901

The sum of real annoyance daily inflicted on a rich and busy but craven-hearted city like New York by the eccentricity of its taxicab organization must be colossal.

Your United States Impressions of a first visit Arnold Bennett 1899

So I suppose he considers that to say of another that he knew a thing to be false when he uttered it, that he was a “miserable, craven-hearted wretch, ” does not amount to a personal assault, and does not make a man a blackguard.

Fourth Joint Debate at Charleston. Extract from Mr. Trumbull's Speech Made at Alton, Referred to by Mr. Lincoln in His Opening at Charleston 1897

The miserable, craven-hearted wretch! he would rather have both ears cut off than to use that language in my presence, where I could call him to account.

Fourth Joint Debate at Charleston. Extract from Mr. Trumbull's Speech Made at Alton, Referred to by Mr. Lincoln in His Opening at Charleston 1897