White-feather in a sentence

What I meant to point out was, that there are only twelve of us belonging to the ship on whom we could rely- indeed only eleven, for that matter, as I don't count on Tompkins; a bully like him would be sure to show the white-feather in a scrimmage- while these Greek chaps muster eight strong, all of them pretty biggish men, too, and all armed with them beastly long knives of theirs, which I've no doubt they know how to use.

He declared Ponto, White-feather, Red Jacket and Thomas Paine to be present.

Another peal of laughter followed this allusion to Jones's well-known nickname of White-feather, a nickname earned by many acts of conspicuous cowardice.