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A person who doesn’t fit their designated type—someone who gets labeled an effete man or a manly woman—seems at odds with the natural order of things.
GENDER IS WHAT YOU MAKE OF IT - ISSUE 88: LOVE & SEXCHARLES KINGAUGUST 5, 2020NAUTILUS
The tendency of Alger stories is to the formation of an honorable, manly character.
CAMP FIRES OF THE WOLF PATROLALAN DOUGLAS
And now with his manly clothes and his manly pipe he was to be so happy!
THE LITTLE GOLD MINERS OF THE SIERRAS AND OTHER STORIESVARIOUS
Manly, himself, did not oppose her departure; he felt it was best she should go.
LOVE AFTER MARRIAGE; AND OTHER STORIES OF THE HEARTCAROLINE LEE HENTZ
Boys learn a manly and protecting tenderness, and the girls become at once more feminine and more truthful.
A COMMONPLACE BOOK OF THOUGHTS, MEMORIES, AND FANCIES.ANNA JAMESON
Montbarts was a young man of about seven or eight-and-twenty, with manly and marked features, and a fixed and piercing eye.
THE BUCCANEER CHIEFGUSTAVE AIMARD
If he loved her it was only manly and proper in him to tell his love.
RACHEL RAYANTHONY TROLLOPE
But she thought most of all of her husband, who in her eyes was the perfection of all manly virtues.
ORLEY FARMANTHONY TROLLOPE
No: between man and man all that can be needed is plain speech and manly frankness—aided by a little diplomacy.
A PESSIMISTROBERT TIMSOL
I cannot think of any really gentle, manly, and proper words to say what I think about my unnatural cousin.
NEW TREASURE SEEKERSE. (EDITH) NESBIT

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