manfulness

Example Sentences

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The servant brought rest and charm into that flat; and George went half-daily to a near-by school, taking himself to and fro with the utmost manfulness.

From Married Life The True Romance by Edginton, May

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

Subdue mutiny, discord, wide-spread despair, by manfulness, justice, mercy and wisdom.

From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Carlyle, Thomas

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