Ever need a fact or quotation on "cravens"? Designed for speechwriters, journalists, writers, researchers, students, professors, teachers, historians, academics, scrapbookers, trivia buffs and word lovers, this is the largest book ever created for this word. It represents a compilation of "single sentences" and/or "short paragraphs" from a variety of sources with a linguistic emphasis on anything relating to the term "cravens," including non-conventional usage and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities. This is not an encyclopedic book, but rather a collage of statements made using the word "cravens," or related words (e.g. inflections, synonyms or antonyms). This title is one of a series of books that considers all major vocabulary words. The entries in each book cover all parts of speech (noun, verb, adverb or adjective usage) as well as use in modern slang, pop culture, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This data dump results in many unexpected examples for "cravens," since the editorial decision to include or exclude terms is purely a computer-generated linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under fair use conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain.

Use in Literature

Cravens

I shall not attempt to decide the question of veracity between Halliwell and Mrs. Cravens, but that one is a mental vacuum and the other a ripsnortin' old virago is established beyond the peradventure of a doubt.–William Cowper Brann in Brann The Iconoclast, vol 10.

But let us not be cravens, and suffer fate to drown us rather than swim.–Edward Bulwer-Lytton in Paul Clifford, vol 6.

I myself have seen him aloft when I was young; moreover, these are no cravens who hold the axe and the club.–H. Rider Haggard in Nada the Lily.

The cravens would oppose me no more than they dared attack Rupert. I had but to raise my revolver, and I sent him to his account with his sins on his head.–Anthony Hope in The Prisoner of Zenda.

Neither one of the brothers Gillespie were cravens, in any sense of the word, but now their cheeks grew paler, and they seemed to shrink from yonder airy monster, even while watching it grow into shape and awful power.–Joseph E. Badger Jr in The Lost City.

If they had but frowned on me, insulted me, gnashed their teeth on me, I could have glared back defiance; as it was, I stood cowed and stupified, a craven by the side of cravens.–Charles Kingsley in Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet (An Autobiography).

If these cravens had gone up to fight with men before whom they felt like grasshoppers, of course they would have been beaten; and it was much better that their fears should come out at Kadesh than when committed to the struggle.–Alexander Maclaren in Expositions of Holy Scripture (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers).

It seemed, and it was, an insult to the trodden people, who read it as a lesson for cravens: their instinct commonly hits the bell.–George Meredith in Vittoria, entire.

In them Italia, visible to us then As living, rose; for proof that huge brute Force Has never being from celestial source, And is the lord of cravens, not of men.–George Meredith in Poems of George Meredith, vol 3.

I have learned, but I did not know in time, The fruits that hang on the tree of bliss Are not for cravens who will not climb.–R.F. Murray in R F Murray: His Poems with a Memoir by Andrew Lang.

• Preface iv
• Use in Literature 1
• Cravens 1
• Nonfiction Usage 3
• Patent Usage 3
• Bibliographic Usage 3
• Encyclopedic Usage 12
• Lexicographic Usage 13
• Index 19