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What right has he, a noncombatant desk officer who has always doubted his own courage, to browbeat the uncourageous?

From Time Magazine Archive

She is, though just a little imperious, a thoroughly "good sort," and, with occasional blunders, really a guardian angel to her good-hearted, not uncourageous, but visionary and unpractical lover and husband.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George

They shape and form human minds into tastes and preferences and prejudices, the uncourageous origin of which the owners of the minds are far from divining.

From Home Fires in France by Canfield, Dorothy

And this, not in conscious opposition to his mother's will; but in protest, not uncourageous, against the limitations imposed on him by physical misfortune.

From The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance by Malet, Lucas

An uncourageous faint smile seemed the safest response.

From Kincaid's Battery by Kimball, Alonzo