manfulness

Example Sentences

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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 Marshall, H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth)

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

Unspeakable deliverance, and new destiny of thousand-fold expanded manfulness for all men, dawns out of the Future here.

From Latter-Day Pamphlets by Carlyle, Thomas

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 Cable, George W.

He only sees his own weakness, and want of life, of spirit, of manfulness, of power. 

From Westminster Sermons with a Preface by Kingsley, Charles