“I did call him a dastard and a recreant and believe that half of England would echo these words if polled.”

“The army will deal harshly with any recreant, perhaps even with execution.”

“Her own people, regardless of her continuous love for them, saw her as a traitorous recreant.”

“This I understand to mean that the punishment for recreancy falls on the champion himself unless his hirer raises him from the field.”

“Cowardice had stayed my hand and silenced my tongue, and now I would have to live with the outcome of my insufferable recreancy.”

“She was devoted to her son, and not at all disposed to take the General's views about his recreancy in politics.”

“Despite his initial confidence, his recreance became apparent when he backed out of the challenge at the last minute.”

“In both districts, the number of tourists and recreants prevails over the residents more than four times.”

“Although all recreants suffer from lack of self-sufficiency, few exhibit Calvin's intensity of effort to overcome it.”

“The tremendous strain which the Star would have to suffer when the sophistries of recreants and the shibboleths of renegades were abroad will be obvious.”