As a lover, his story stands out forever as a warning to the timid and the recreant. |
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The sultan gave him one of his female relatives in marriage, and the recreant knight appeared before Jerusalem at the head of an army of the infidels. |
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Had she gone abroad to seek him and win his recreant heart again? |
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They told me he was a recreant and a coward, but I knew it was false. |
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With swaying arms they wail in pneuma over the recreant Bloom. |
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A policy which withcalls us from the great task we have in the Pacific is recreant to our duty as a great state, and to all that we owe to the civilization of the world. |
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I believe it well, false recreant knight, said Sir Gawaine, for thou hast many long days overled me, and us all, and destroyed many of our good knights. |
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