manfulness
Example Sentences
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It was lovely to see how sweetly she and Henry helped him up and brushed him off, and the boyish manfulness with which he always took it.
From John March, Southerner by George W. Cable
"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
"I'll tell you what I wish, Miss Holabird!" he said suddenly, letting go his moustache, and turning round with sufficient manfulness, and facing her.
From Real Folks by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney
The chapter was then read with a simple trust and manfulness like that of an ancient patriarch.
From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
One likes to note, in passing, how frequently Catherine urges frail, cloistered women, sheltered from all the din and storm of outer life, to "manfulness."
From Letters of Catherine Benincasa by Saint of Siena Catherine
