Then the motherly affection hindered the growth of the broader human feeling, burned it; and in place of a great sentiment a small, dismal thought beat faint-heartedly in the gray ashes of alarm: ❋ Unknown (2003)
For the first time I thought faint-heartedly of the greatness of the risk, of the adverse chances arrayed against me, of the fair promise of our new life, and of the peril in which I might place the happiness which we had so hardly earned. ❋ Unknown (2003)
And as she regarded the figure, she thought of the numberless villages timidly pressed to the ground; of the people, faint-heartedly and secretly awaiting the coming of truth; and of the thousands of people who senselessly and silently work their whole lifetime without awaiting the coming of anything. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Mr. Polly backed rather faint-heartedly, but Aunt Larkins was not to be denied. ❋ Unknown (2003)
And so, lagging faint-heartedly, he lost her in the maze of books. ❋ Bertrand W. Sinclair (1926)
Mavis set going a bell, which could be heard faint-heartedly tinkling in the distance; she employed the time that she was kept waiting in examining the statue. ❋ Unknown (1909)
"Suppose, after I get up there on that plateau, I didn't find any man at all," I ventured faint-heartedly, but with a ripple of my risibles; the last in life I fear. ❋ Maria Thompson Daviess (1898)
Unwillingly, faint-heartedly, with murmurings and blasphemy against the ❋ 1829-1909 (1897)
And we must deal with our sorrows as we deal with any other gift of God, courageously and temperately, not faint-heartedly or wilfully; not otherwise can they be blest to us. ❋ Arthur Christopher Benson (1893)
Why should one so faint-heartedly persist in making choice of experiences, in welcoming what is pleasant, what feeds our vanity and self-satisfaction, what gives one, like the rich fool, the sense of false security of goods stored up for the years? ❋ Arthur Christopher Benson (1893)
Thence once more the crew came on with swords and axes, but faint-heartedly, and the end of it was that they lost some more men dead and wounded and fell back again. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)
David, and hence also the Messiah, were to descend — in unconscious incest and conscious whoredom [xxxviii]; Moses slays the Egyptian and buries him secretly, and this was also certainly regarded as a crime [Exod. ii, 11 sqq.]; he resists faint-heartedly the divine call, [Exod. iii and iv] and subsequently wavers in his faith, and is, for that reason, shut out from the ❋ 1819-1870 (1873)
When I hide her, or strike for her, faint-heartedly, in a hole or a corner, do you whom I love next best upon earth, tell me what I shall most righteously deserve to be told: -- that she would have done well to turn me over with her foot that night when I lay bleeding to death, and spat in my dastard face. ' ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)
Unfortunately the modern world we live in has been infected with pussy-disease; the notion that we can fight faint-heartedly and hope the enemy surrenders when they see how nice we are. ❋ Unknown (2009)
'Who will bear thy banner for thee when thou followest it so faint-heartedly as thou hast done now this while past?' ❋ 1179-1241 Snorri Sturluson (1210)
Daniel, with my black leather trunk resting on his pommel -- to be carried to the tavern where the mail stage was to receive it -- led the way through the lane that conducted us beyond the precincts of this abode of learning and frolick, and I followed, looking back faint-heartedly upon the affectionate and envious rank and file of the school-room, who were collected in one silent and wistful group at the door, with their hard-visaged commander towering above their heads, and shading his brow from the sun with his hand, as he watched our slow progress. ❋ Unknown (1832)
When I hide her, or strike for her, faint-heartedly, in a hole or a corner, do you whom I love next best upon earth, tell me what I shall most righteously deserve to be told: — that she would have done well to turn me over with her foot that night when I lay bleeding to death, and spat in my dastard face.’ ❋ Unknown (2004)