Example Sentences

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Nevertheless, he scorned to be thought a flincher, and made shift to tope to him on the square.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 by Motteux, Peter Anthony

This Sir Thomas Dyot I should be disposed to put upon the list of old English worthies—as humane, liberal, and no flincher from what he took in his head.

From Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners by Hazlitt, William

I said some time after to the waiter that "Mr. Mouncey was no flincher."

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter

I got no praise certainly for this, but I escaped blame; and I saw by the way the other mizzen-top men treated me, that they considered me a smart lad, and no flincher.

From Peter the Whaler by Austin, Henry

"I shall never give Lorance de Montluc to a white-livered flincher."

From Helmet of Navarre by Runkle, Bertha