manfulness
Example Sentences
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"No, no, Nancy," he replied with a manful struggle for manfulness, "I—I —It's meant, I reckon," and slunk away from the girl's brutality as if it were his own shame.
From The Leatherwood God by William Dean Howells
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
Unspeakable deliverance, and new destiny of thousand-fold expanded manfulness for all men, dawns out of the Future here.
From Latter-Day Pamphlets by Thomas Carlyle
Ray meant as thoroughly to trust now to the manfulness and honor of his son.
From A Soldier's Trial An Episode of the Canteen Crusade by Charles King
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
