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He wonders if he's a coward because he doesn't like to fight.
Er fragt sich, ob er ein Feigling ist, weil er nicht gerne kämpft.
Mingus, Charles / Beneath the UnderdogMingus, Charles / Beneath The Underdog
Beneath The Underdog
Mingus, Charles
© 1971 by Charles Mingus und Nel King
© fur die deutsche Ausgabe 1980, 2002
Beneath the Underdog
Mingus, Charles
© 1971 by Charles Mingus and Nel King
"From now on, I suppose I'll be called the Coward King.
"Mich werden sie von jetzt an vermutlich Konstantin den Feigen nennen.
Alexander, Lloyd / KestrelAlexander, Lloyd / Der Turmfalke
Der Turmfalke
Alexander, Lloyd
© der deutschsprachigen Ausgabe bei Arena-Verlag Georg Popp, Würzburg
© 1982 by Lloyd Alexander
Kestrel
Alexander, Lloyd
© Lloyd Alexander, 1982
I did not directly beg my father to dispel my anxieties and in fact ended my recital with a touch of bravado: ''Of course, I was never in any danger," I said. "People like that are all cowards, aren't they?"
Ich bat meinen Vater nicht direkt, meine Befürchtungen zu zerstreuen, und beendete meinen Vortrag sogar mit einem Anflug von Großtuerei: „In Gefahr war ich ja keinen Augenblick", sagte ich, „das sind alles Feiglinge, nicht?"
Gay, Peter / My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi BerlinGay, Peter / Meine deutsche Frage. Jugend in Berlin 1933 - 1939
Meine deutsche Frage. Jugend in Berlin 1933 - 1939
Gay, Peter
© 1998 by Peter Gay
© С. Н. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung (Oscar Bеcк), Munchen 1999
My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin
Gay, Peter
© 1998 by Peter Gay
'It is all nonsense,' cried Fritz, ' and it isn't true! my red hussars are not such cowards as all that. If they were, do you suppose I should command them ?'
»Es ist alles nicht wahr«, sprach Fritz, »solche Poltrons sind meine roten Husaren nicht, Potz Bassa Manelka, wie würd ich sonst darunterfahren.
Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor A. / The Serapion BrethrenHoffmann, Ernst Theodor A. / Die Serapions-Brueder
Die Serapions-Brueder
Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor A.
© des Textkorpus 1963 Winkler, Munchen
The Serapion Brethren
Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor A.

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real coward
wirklicher Feigling

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coward

noun
SingularPlural
Common casecowardcowards
Possessive casecoward'scowards'