cower

He'd be useless in war. He'd just cower in his bunker until the enemy came in and shot him, or until the war was over.

Some sterner virtues o’er the mountain’s breast

May sit, like falcons, cowering on the nest

This done, their doubts will vanish, and they will stand confronted by an object lesson which must have the effect either to arouse them to a determination to banish despotism from the land, or cower them into submission and servitude.