chicken-livered

Example sentences from the Web for chicken-livered

• Come back here, you couple of chicken-livered cowards, and I'll thrash the two of ye!

  Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 9 |Various

• A weak-kneed, chicken-livered, white-bellied old bullfrog that squeaks and jumps, plunk!

  The Maid-At-Arms |Robert W. Chambers

• I went, and this is what he says: 'The fool that defended me is a chicken-livered son of a—and all the rest of it,' he says.

  Summer |Edith Wharton

• He thinks me a chicken-livered old coward and I know much more about him than I knew before; and we are at peace.

  The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II |Burton J. Hendrick