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How To Use manfully In A Sentence

• 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
• 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
• Manfully, I choose from the small list of ices and sorbets a Trufito.
• The daughter did the best she could, trudging womanfully along until she came to a bleak desert land.
• 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
• The actors struggled manfully with some of the worst lines of dialogue ever written.
• As it was, they defended manfully in the first half before embracing attack as the afternoon progressed. Times, Sunday Times
• 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