Where my jeddak leads I will follow, nor may any jeddak call me a coward or a craven unless I refuse to go where he dares to go.
In every mind was the same thought--O-Tar must lead them at once to the chamber of O-Mai the Cruel, or accept forever the stigma of cowardice, and there could be no coward upon the throne of Manator.
"What makes you a coward?" asked Dorothy, looking at the great beast in wonder, for he was as big as a small horse.
If the elephants and the tigers and the bears had ever tried to fight me, I should have run myself--I'm such a coward; but just as soon as they hear me roar they all try to get away from me, and of course I let them go."
"I was thy woman to be, Negore, but thou art a coward; the daughter of Old Kinoos mates not with a coward!"
And now, when I tell thee of how his blindness came to be, thou wilt know, beyond question, that the daughter of Kinoos cannot mother the children of a coward such as thou art, Negore."
Since, if base fear his dastard step withdraws, From death he cannot fly:--One common grave Receives, at last, the
coward and the brave.'"
Don't imagine, though, it was cowardice made me slink away from the officer; I never have been a
coward at heart, though I have always been a
coward in action.
"You expected my son would be a
coward?" cried the count.
Where attempts have not been made to reconcile the two moralities, they may be described as follows:--All is GOOD in the noble morality which proceeds from strength, power, health, well-constitutedness, happiness, and awfulness; for, the motive force behind the people practising it is "the struggle for power." The antithesis "good and bad" to this first class means the same as "noble" and "despicable." "Bad" in the master-morality must be applied to the
coward, to all acts that spring from weakness, to the man with "an eye to the main chance," who would forsake everything in order to live.
"I reckon he WARN'T a
coward. Not by a blame' sight.
Since I have learned that I have learned something else--what a cad and what a
coward I have been all my life.