afraid of one's shadow vs recreant

afraid of one's shadow

recreant

adj
  • Unfaithful to someone, or to one's duties or honour; disloyal, false. 

noun
  • Somebody who is recreant, who yields in combat; a coward or traitor. 

How often have the words afraid of one's shadow and recreant occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )