manfulness

Example Sentences

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Hence, liars, and scoundrels, and vulgar bullies abound, and men skulk and grin, and play the double-face, till they lose all manfulness.

From Ardath by Corelli, Marie

The manful childishness, the childish manfulness of such a reply, were impenetrable.

From Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 1 by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

To which he answered, with an honest manfulness, in a tone which is now pathetic enough to me, that he was much grieved yet much obliged, and uncertain how to decide.

From Life of John Sterling by Carlyle, Thomas

But here we are met with the cry of strength and manfulness.

From The English Novel And the Principle of its Development by Lanier, Sidney

His taste was not an instinct, but the slow result of reflection and of the manfulness with which he always acknowledged to himself his own mistakes.

From Among My Books First Series by Lowell, James Russell