fainthearted

How to use fainthearted in a sentence

• I never was fainthearted before; but I cannot believe such a creature cares for me.'

  North and South | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

• I ricommend to you, trusting to God, and putting down all misgivings and fainthearted feelin's.

  The Deerslayer | James Fenimore Cooper

• Sometimes I feel almost fainthearted, which is cowardly and forgetful of our calling "to fight manfully under Christ's banner."

  Life of John Coleridge Patteson | Charlotte M. Yonge

• By its power he keeps the whole herd of dejected, fainthearted, despairing and unsuccessful creatures, fast to life.

  Friedrich Nietzsche | Georg Brandes

• Only the fainthearted talk of retreating; the others do not think of it, and these are more than the majority.

  The Lone Ranche | Captain Mayne Reid