manful

How To Use manful In A Sentence

• The daughter did the best she could, trudging womanfully along until she came to a bleak desert land.
• Where they strove manfully for their effects, he wrote poems whose cadence leads one to believe that they had just floated out.
• American Slang ups the ante further, amplifying guitarist Alex Rosamilia's failsafe hooks and singer Brian Fallon's manful emoting with the back walls of stadiums in mind. The Gaslight Anthem: American Slang
• Working manfully through the tower of invoices and feeding their details into the computer, he reflected upon the frustrating job held by the painters of the Forth bridge, and decided they had it easy.
• England coped manfully without him, but they will rue his absence if Australia continue to fight hard today and finally top 400 for the first time in the series.
• He took love unmanfully; the passion struck at his weakness; in wrath at the humiliation, if only to revenge himself for that, he could be fiendish; he knew it, and loathed the desired fair creature who caused and exposed to him these cracks in his nature, whence there came a brimstone stench of the infernal pits. The Amazing Marriage — Volume 2
• By a village called Bos - worthe, in a greate plaine, méete for twoo battailes: by Lei - cester this field was pitched, wherin king Richard manfully fightyng hande to hande, with the Erle of Richmonde, was A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde
• a moment his men wavered at their guns; but he called manfully to them, from where he lay, to fight on boldly for the honor of the The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2)
• So Sara Lee's room had a different occupant for a time, a thin and fine-worn young Belgian, who yielded to Sara Lee when Jean gave up in despair, and who proceeded, most unmanfully, to faint as soon as he was between the blankets. The Amazing Interlude
• But I strode manful towards the door of the room I was in, seeing a like crack of light under it. Where's the show?