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
All good projects are swamped under his weak, fainthearted guidance.
"The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers"
Georg Ebers
When his friends reported these things to the dictator, persuading him that, to avoid the general obloquy, he should engage the enemy, his answer was, I should be more fainthearted than they make me, if, through fear of idle reproaches, I should abandon my own convictions.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh