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
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
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
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
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
