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Dastard   Listen
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Dastard  n.  One who meanly shrinks from danger; an arrant coward; a poltroon. "You are all recreants and dashtards, and delight to live in slavery to the nobility."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Dastard" Quotes from Famous Books



... fire. Vs martireth this blinde desire To staie our life from flieng! How ceasleslie our minds doth rack, How heauie lies vpon our back This dastard feare of dieng! Death rather healthfull succor giues, Death rather all mishappes relieues That life vpon vs throweth: And euer to vs doth vnclose The doore, wherby from curelesse woes Our wearie soule out goeth. What Goddesse else more milde then shee To burie ...
— A Discourse of Life and Death, by Mornay; and Antonius by Garnier • Philippe de Mornay

... save by the duello, a champion of yours against a champion of ours." Whereupon one of Sharrkan's riders dashed out from the ranks and crave between the two lines crying, "Ho! who is for smiting? Let no dastard engage me this day nor niderling!" Hardly had he made an end of his vaunt, when there sallied forth to him a Frankish cavalier, armed cap-a-pie and clad in a surcoat of gold stuff, riding on a grey white ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 2 • Richard F. Burton

... in Dale in Caithness, a man of rank and very wealthy," and "his son Ottar was jarl in Thurso." Frakark, a daughter of Moddan in Dale, was the wife of Liot Nidingr, or the Dastard, a Sudrland chief, and during the half century after Thorfinn's death Moddan's family seems to have owned much of Caithness and Sutherland, where the Norse steadily lost their hold. We may be sure also that the ...
— Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time - or, The Jarls and The Freskyns • James Gray

... dispositions towards himself. Ferdinand and Isabella requited this act of humiliation by securing to Abdallah's subjects the right of cultivating their fields in quiet, and of trafficking with the Spaniards in every commodity, save military stores. At this paltry price did the dastard prince consent to stay his arm, at the only moment when it could be used effectually for his ...
— The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella The Catholic, V2 • William H. Prescott

... hands, made a forward movement, as if to carry into execution the dastard work his heart had conjured up. One step, and he came to a ...
— Five Thousand Dollars Reward • Frank Pinkerton

... in the village, on the Cob, on the links, and pass by as if I were the Invisible Man. And why? Because of the reptile, Hawk. The worm, Hawk. The dastard ...
— Love Among the Chickens • P. G. Wodehouse



Words linked to "Dastard" :   dastardly, fearful, cowardly, coward



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