How To Use Manful In A Sentence
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The daughter did the best she could, trudging womanfully along until she came to a bleak desert land.
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Where they strove manfully for their effects, he wrote poems whose cadence leads one to believe that they had just floated out.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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?
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Offered manful blocks and barnstorming forward runs.
Times, Sunday Times
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Manfully, I choose from the small list of ices and sorbets a Trufito.
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But Foster was a man not easily daunted by such things, and he had stridden on manfully, fully occupied by his own thoughts, till he reached the stile where the footpath to the ruins began.
True to his Colours The Life that Wears Best
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Engagingly harnessed to the period also are the screen-printed portrait photographs of hairy, moustachioed, and frothily side-burned artists posing manfully à la Klondike, the “women” often draped obediently on the floor beside them.
Psychedelic Denver
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The actors struggled manfully with some of the worst lines of dialogue ever written.
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As it was, they defended manfully in the first half before embracing attack as the afternoon progressed.
Times, Sunday Times
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He developed into quite an expert fisherman; nor, when the boats came in, did he shirk work, but manfully rolled up his trousers and helped carry water and "gib" mackerel as if he enjoyed it.
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906
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I struggled manfully, you might say, to suppress this weakness.
Between Worlds: A Reader, Rhetoric and Handbook
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Dad would refuse to speak to us all for a week as he manfully kept his secret hypochondriacal worries to himself.
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Possibly some of the boys who behaved so unchivalrously toward her helped right manfully to conquer us of the South into the views they now entertain.
Our Brother in Black: His Freedom and His Future
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Mr. C_., a large and very stout man, applied it 'manfully' on
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
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They rose manfully to the challenge.
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Where the worthy Lord Hume fought on foot with his pike in his hand very manfully, assisted by the Laird of Cessford, his brother-inlaw, who helped him up again when he was strucken to the ground by many strokes upon his face, through the throwing pistols at him after they had been discharged.
The Abbot
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having said her say Peggy manfully shouldered her burden and prepared to break up yet another home
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He toiled manfully with the task, bravely maintaining that the national picture was not as grim as the newspapers would have us believe.
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He manfully fielded tough questions about precisely how brilliant his leadership was and the personal toll of improving the lives of every living creature in his kingdom.
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He played on manfully on stages in basement clubs as naked Metropolitan policemen danced the conga.
Times, Sunday Times
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Jon Craig of the Cincinnati Enquirer has made a manful effort to look into the event -- and, predictably, to deny any suggestion that the lockdown helped Bush/Cheney steal their "re-election.
What really happened: lockdown in Warren County, OH, 2004
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The twain swayed to and fro battling throughout the length and breadth of the valley and manfully enduring the stress of combat singular, whilst all eyes upon them were fixed in admiring surprise: after which they wheeled about and foined and feinted for
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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However, Hickey and Coady played manfully in defence - the latter the man of the match given the pressure they were under - while Kehoe and Bambrick also had to work like beavers.
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I have coped with it manfully.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are a number of places where, naturally, I would not have worded that defense as Joe has, but on the whole I am grateful for his manful attempt to read what I said charitably.
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He kept his word manfully, and was much comforted to find that his experience was an old story to the professor, who approved his plan, thinking wisely that the discipline would be good for him, and was very kind in offering help and promising to keep the secret of his folly from his friend Bhaer till Nat had redeemed himself.
Jo's Boys
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They pose manfully in some anonymous public space.
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Engagingly harnessed to the period also are the screen-printed portrait photographs of hairy, moustachioed, and frothily side-burned artists posing manfully à la Klondike, the “women” often draped obediently on the floor beside them.
Psychedelic Denver
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Hedonistic accommodation sunshine coast that as unreconciled questioner strongbox sulkily and neglectfully unmanful, our overhead with the grossulariaceae is callipygous.
Rational Review
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These mercenaries were, of course, a fierce and rapacious soldiery, and having an idle tale current among themselves, that a lanzknecht was refused admittance into heaven on account of his vices, and into hell on the score of his tumultuous, mutinous, and insubordinate disposition, they manfully acted as if they neither sought the one nor eschewed the other.
Quentin Durward
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The most positive gender relations one was Google, and they showed no actual humans, and the voices in the background made it clear it was a manful man doing the proactive searching.
Titleist
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First time anything like this has happened to him, and of course he's very manful, but his wife is not so easy about it!
OMG!
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This is the static prodigy phenomenon, where early gains ossify into a state of frowning and manfully borne stasis, a condition known in sports science as Huddlestone's Mooch.
Enjoying the fleeting thrill of fragile prodigies is a national habit | Barney Ronay
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The industry has been making manful efforts to curtail production so that prices will not go through the floor every time that there is a pick-up in demand.
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And yet despite his manful wariness of such things he could not, as he ate his lunch, stop his mind from turning on the night before.
A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
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Through the fire and through the smoke -- in the fire and in the smoke, for the sea cast him up against a cannon, and on the instant he became a cannonier -- Defarge of the wine - shop worked like a manful soldier, Two fierce hours.
A Tale of Two Cities
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Running back, he sees her clinging womanfully to her handbag while some guy tries to grab it off her.
Times, Sunday Times
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Frazer has done a manful job in that position but I know he is ready for a rest and his strength is in a defensive role.
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Despite the difficulty of the task,and the slowness of the progress,the workers continued to plug away at it manfully.
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At the age of 42, he has performed manfully in the wake of what was, judging by the length and depth of his emotional and very public suffering, apparently the most traumatic divorce in the history of man and womankind.
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In England heroic wisdom is not yet dead, and quite replaced by attorneyism: the honest beaver faculty yet abounds with us, the heroic manful faculty shows itself also to the observant eye, not dead but dangerously sleeping.
Latter-Day Pamphlets
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Whenever you run across a name carded in this stilted fashion, "A. Thingumy Soandso", you may make up your mind at once that the owner is ashamed of his first name and is trying manfully to live it down and eventually forgive his parents.
Man on the Box
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They rose manfully to the challenge.
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The essence of our poetic tradition is to be found instead in the unadorned language of the Manyōshū and the manful haiku of Buson!
Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » A History of Modern Japanese Literary Criticism: Act One, Scene 1
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The cowhide was accordingly produced, and the Rev.Mr. C., a large and very stout man, applied it 'manfully' on 'woman's' bare and 'shrinking flesh.'
American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses
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Sometimes I feel almost fainthearted, which is cowardly and forgetful of our calling "to fight manfully under Christ's banner.
Life of John Coleridge Patteson
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I say not that I am about to die, but only that methinks I shall never be able to wield sword manfully again.
Both Sides the Border A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower
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Then he manfully choked down four or five pieces -- when I say "manfully," it's because I've discovered that most men, if hungry enough, will eat just about anything you put in front of them.
Running With Quills
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Despite the difficulty of the task,and the slowness of the progress,the workers continued to plug away at it manfully.
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He himself seems to feel he has to make manful, self-deprecating jokes about having his election stolen.
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When a Poor-spirited Creature that died at the same time for his Crimes bemoaned himself unmanfully, he rebuked him with this Question, Is it no Consolation to such a Man as thou art to die with Phocion?
Spectator, August 2, 1711
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He was not a “president stiff and small,” as Mike described him in Newsweek, and the clear, manful, and gracious tone that comes across in all of those post-9/11 speeches was not some invention of the speechwriters.
Present at the Creation
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Hedonistic accommodation sunshine coast that as unreconciled questioner strongbox sulkily and neglectfully unmanful, our overhead with the grossulariaceae is callipygous.
Rational Review
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At one stage yesterday afternoon - and again this morning - it all became too much and every bulb went out, leaving the picturesque old-fangled Edgbaston scoreboard to carry on manfully.
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But he stuck manfully to a number that were quite as revolutionaryfor example, aker for acre, cag for keg, grotesk for grotesque, hainous for heinous, porpess for porpoise and tung for tongueand they did not begin to disappear until the edition of 1854, issued by other hands and eleven years after his death.
Chapter 8. American Spelling. 2. The Influence of Webster
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He manfully fought back with three consecutive birdies from the eighth but dropped a further stroke on the way back to the clubhouse.
Times, Sunday Times
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You cannot win without scoring, and aside from Rooney, who was trying so manfully to be all things to England's attack, nobody but Owen was going to finish the job.
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He called manfully to her to follow him and turned back, striding, with the club swinging in his hand, towards the squatting-place, as if he had never left the tribe; and she ceased her weeping and followed quickly as
Tales of Space and Time
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Well now, Flash old son, says you, that's compensation surely, for all the horrors unmanfully endured - and don't forget that along the road you've had enough assorted trollop to fill Chelsea Barracks, with an annexe at Alder-shot.
Watershed
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The young gentleman listens manfully to my abortive attempts to demonstrate my interest with a light smile, while I slowly turn an inelegant purple.
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They stuck to their task manfully.
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He had picked up the art of jollification at Oxford, entering ‘manfully into all their parties and scenes of dissipation.
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He manfully fought back with three consecutive birdies from the eighth but dropped a further stroke on the way back to the clubhouse.
Times, Sunday Times
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Difficulties cannot be artificially overcome," said Mirabeau, "nor is there any invention whereby a man may be spared the trouble of conquering them; they must be grasped firmly, strangled, crushed, trampled down in manful fight.
Zoe: The History of Two Lives
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He played on manfully on stages in basement clubs as naked Metropolitan policemen danced the conga.
Times, Sunday Times
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Despite the difficulty of the task,and the slowness of the progress,the workers continued to plug away at it manfully.
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When a Poor-spirited Creature that died at the same time for his Crimes bemoaned himself unmanfully, he rebuked him with this Question, Is it no Consolation to such a Man as thou art to die with _Phocion?
The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays
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I for one am glad that even in the 1990's (to say nothing of today), Harvard Law had largely moved beyond the pure Socratic method (though I recall grimly my Civ Pro class with Arthur Miller), because I don't know how "manfully" I would have endured it.
Pound on the Socratic Method
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He manfully fought back with three consecutive birdies from the eighth but dropped a further stroke on the way back to the clubhouse.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dawkins writes of how he manfully and loudly sings it the ‘correct’ way when he's at one of these gatherings, but to no avail.
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Despite the difficulty of the task,and the slowness of the progress,the workers continued to plug away at it manfully.
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He actually was striding'though not exactly 'manfully'through the noontime crowd, heading for the subway and home.
Spirits White As Lightning
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Stout Oliver [224] was without strack tackin, fleing full manfully; and so was his glorie (stincking and foolishe proudnes we should call it,) suddandly turned to confusioun and schame.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)
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The twain swayed to and fro battling throughout the length and breadth of the valley and manfully enduring the stress of combat singular, whilst all eyes upon them were fixed in admiring surprise: after which they wheeled about and foined and feinted for
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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He manfully fielded tough questions about precisely how brilliant his leadership was and the personal toll of improving the lives of every living creature in his kingdom.
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As Augustine just discussed in the Christian Heritage quote for today, concupiscence becomes sin - and thus a barrier between us and God - only when we consent to its desires, not simply when we experience and manfully resist them.
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He yodelled manfully.
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The decision made, he turned and swaggered out of the door, idle hands swinging and dangling as he strode manfully toward the stairwell.
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“It was — it was only something, sir” — the lieutenant blushed, and hesitated, and looked away unmanfully — “which I asked Captain Honyman to leave out, because — because it had nothing to do with it.
Springhaven
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He strove manfully to overcome his speech defect.
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This second time, Selby made a manful attempt with both hands to make the catch.
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Having married her, as he openly avowed, for her fortune alone, he soon dissipated this, the solitary charm she possessed for him, and was then unmanful enough to taunt her with the inconveniences of that penury which his own extravagance had occasioned.
Life of Lord Byron
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The ancients, who by many are thought best to have understood human nature, did not think tears unmanful, or disgraceful to a man of true fortitude; as might be amply shewn, if needful.
A Vindication of Three of Our Blessed Saviour���s Miracles: viz. The Raising of Jairus���s daughter, The Widow of Naim���s son, and Lazarus.
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They met, as was the phrase of the time, “manful under shield.”
Anne of Geierstein
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English that were in the chancel kept off the Scots, and having the advantage of the strait and narrow entrie, defended themselves manfully.
Castle Dangerous
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The fear of physical suffering was not uppermost in his mind, nor even the fear that he would walk unmanfully to the high gallows, but a greater dread that if he died now, here, at Dongola, Ethne would never take back that fourth feather, and his strong hope of the "afterwards" would never come to its fulfilment.
The Four Feathers
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I think it's important we defend manfully.
Times, Sunday Times
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British youth thus conueied ouer from hence, & what notable exploits they boldlie attempted, & no lesse manfullie atchiued, they néeded not to haue giuen eare vnto the fabulous reports forged by their Bards, of Arthur and other their princes, woorthie in déed of verie high commendation.
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (4 of 8) The Fovrth Booke Of The Historie Of England
