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• The Lynhurst costs from £2,100 a week through One Off Places 01598 753757, oneoffplaces.co.uk STAG BREAKSInvolving pickled sprouts, Dirty Tackle beer and bar games like Ride the Bull, the 99km Yorkshire pub crawl around 18 boozers isn't for the faint-hearted – or weak-livered.

Alternative hen, stag and honeymoon destinations 2011

I would like to see the Senate and the House swept clean of all those liberal, weak-livered officials in Washington.

Think Progress » ‘American Values Agenda’ off to a rocky start. 2006

The weak-livered councillors of Corinth had all but wet themselves when he talked of invading Spartan lands.

Lion Of Macedon Gemmell, David 1990

The weak-livered councillors of Corinth had all but wet themselves when he talked of invading Spartan lands.

Lion Of Macedon Gemmell, David 1990

She corralled the information, an 'drove her weak-livered man to do the lousy work.

The Forfeit Ridgwell Cullum 1905

And he sez, "That is jest like wimmen -- whifflin ', onstabled, weak-livered."

Samantha at the World's Fair Marietta Holley 1881

Naturally, it surely didn't help that Romney spent his week in South Carolina mainly presenting himself as a bumbling, dodging, weak-livered pretend-conservative.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Jason Linkins 2012

It's rampant, red, pillaging Russianism, and if there is any man in this room who breaks ranks to give those little yellow bastards an inch, I'll personally knock him down and kick his weak-livered guts in.

Hawaii Michener, James 1959