manfulness
Example Sentences
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Subdue mutiny, discord, wide-spread despair, by manfulness, justice, mercy and wisdom.
From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Thomas Carlyle
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
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
"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
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 May Edginton
