manfulness
Example Sentences
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The manful childishness, the childish manfulness of such a reply, were impenetrable.
From Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 1 by Charlotte Mary Yonge
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 James Russell Lowell
But here we are met with the cry of strength and manfulness.
From The English Novel And the Principle of its Development by Sidney Lanier
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 Thomas Carlyle
Rude stubborn self- help here; a whole world of squalor, rudeness, confused misery and want, yet of nobleness and manfulness withal.
From English Literature for Boys and Girls by H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth) Marshall