How To Use Manhood In A Sentence

Pregnancy is a natural part of womanhood.
They must do the chores of life, must gain in strength and wisdom to cope with the hostile time of manhood.
Though it crush its victims to the earth; and tread them into the dust; and brutify them by every possible invention; it cannot totally extinguish the spirit of manhood within them. The White Slave; or, Memoirs of a Fugitive
I didn't want to be some grotesque parody of womanhood. The Sun
The covers went back and a hand reached for my manhood. The Sun

The transformation girlhood to womanhood is quite marvellous.
The Roman Scarus comments which "Experience, manhood, honour, ne'er before/Did so violate itself. Archive 2009-11-01
But he proved just as incapable in manhood as he was in infancy. Times, Sunday Times
In the prime of manhood at 43, Simon runs a company closing in on half a billion dollars in revenues, with a market cap twice that, up from next to nothing eight years ago.
And Moore, perhaps more than a little challenged by his own insecurities, has made a film that is profoundly invested in manhood, masculinity, machismo.
This fabric, which appears in most works, is apparently associated with an induction into womanhood amongst Xhosa people.
Billy had told her of the great perch Cal Hutchins caught on the day of the eclipse, when he had little dreamed the heart of his manhood would be spent in convict's garb. CHAPTER XV
While the nymphs lie low, sucking roots in sheltering soil, you will steer a course from the eager springs of boyhood to the braided delta of manhood and majority.
The cops were itching for a fight, and to prove their manhood.
Sincerity, a deep genuine, heart-felt sincerity, is a trait of true and noble manhood.
In the spring of 1848 the radical press, political clubs, and the National Guard bubbled with activity in Paris and provincial cities as elections under universal manhood suffrage to the Constituent Assembly approached.
It basically came down to this for me: FGM is about controlling women – specifically about controlling the sexuality of girls and controlling their transition to and experience of womanhood – whereas my understanding of cultural/religious reasons for male circumcision is that those are different. The First Cut | Her Bad Mother
And in any case, polyandry is certainly not the ideal for Indian womanhood.
Whether or not these methods were flawed matters not; what is important is that ideal womanhood was, in part, physical.
His childhood was lost, at the age of ten, and on that creaky floor his manhood began.
I absolutely must not be allowed to wear this in real life for fear of turning into a twirling parody of womanhood. Times, Sunday Times
This was the passage to the second cycle of life, manhood.
According to Hero, most of what he does is in defense of womanhood. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
They did not attempt to put one king in place of another, but to dethrone human nature and discrown the very manhood of the race. The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays
The sit-in was therefore rife with just the sorts of contradictions which communists identified with proletarian womanhood, and women became obvious and crucial actors in its realization.
As a result, they are usually well acquainted with both their own and other people's anger by the time they reach manhood. 50 Ways to Become a Self-Confident Woman
To fits of hypochondria and deep dejection he had, as he himself tells us, been subject from his earliest manhood, and he attributes to overtoil in boyhood this tendency which was probably a part of his natural temperament. Robert Burns
The reformers were very divided in their aims, which ranged from modest franchise reform to universal manhood suffrage.
The check by common will on private greed, the care for public health, the protection of childhood and manhood, the securing of fair leisure from the monotonies of modern labor, form a program hardly to be called radical any longer. Happy Tax Day: Progressive Taxes and Christian Faith
This scene is particularly important since in the very act of proving his manhood, the hero loses it completely.
I didn't want to be some grotesque parody of womanhood. The Sun
I didn't want to be some grotesque parody of womanhood. The Sun
Seventeen and trembling on the brink of womanhood, she has already suffered the humiliation of being packed off as the poor relation with her rich cousins on holiday.
When Pennsylvania's Constitution was revised in 1838 to disfranchise free black men in the name of expanding white manhood suffrage, young black male reformers leapt forward to challenge it.
And in Delia's there will reverberate till death that wail of a fierce and childless woman -- that last cry of nature in one who had defied nature -- of womanhood in one who had renounced the ways of womanhood: "_the child -- the child_! Delia Blanchflower
They have come to reject the traditional notion of womanhood.
With paper, photographs, scissors, glue and ink, she recorded and perhaps resolved her passage from girlhood to womanhood.
The internal qualities once said to embody manhood - surefootedness, inner strength, confidence of purpose - are merchandised to men to enhance their manliness.
One fine morning as he waddled down the chapel steps, his recalcitrant congregation took matters into their own hands, "debagging" the holy hypocrite and attempting "to deprive him of his manhood. Deborah Swiss: The First Female Flash Mob
This scene is particularly important since in the very act of proving his manhood, the hero loses it completely.
Margery seems defeminised, too: her experience of womanhood feels very much an outsider's view.
I believe this freedom is compromised in many instances by the dichotomy of the child-womanthe blurred sexuality of the young female runner evolving into womanhood, secure at first in the perfect form of her childness in flight and then confronting new contradictions and conflicts over her maturing body. Young Runners
Kate Gosselin used to mock her ex-husband by calling his manhood "stubby", it has been reported. All - Digital Spy - Entertainment and Media News
Despite any wavering I may have exhibited, I now stand, as George puts it in his article, 'ready to conserve the threatened flower of womanhood by also endeavoring to conserve her unpolled vote!' The Sturdy Oak A composite Novel of American Politics by fourteen American authors
Five: Running with Greg's use of the word "pamper," McCain's sense of manhood is threatened by being Mr. Cindy McCain (they are her houses) and the POW narrative restores this idea that yes, gawddamit, I'm a man's man. McCain Himself Invokes POW Past To Deflect Criticism Of Houses Gaffe
The kiss of the prince breaks the spell of narcissism and awakens a womanhood which up to then has remained undeveloped.
For reasons I shall not mention, by paths of descent I shall not describe, in the crown of my manhood and the prime of my devilishness in which Oxford renegades and racing younger sons had nothing on me, I found myself master and owner of a schooner so well known that she shall remain historically nameless. THE PRINCESS
One day Flora Manhood felt her embryonic inspiration ready to convert itself into a positive event.
Also, I think you're assuming that Wittig and other lesbians/feminists want to ‘liberate’ a true, natural womanhood from cultural baggage etc.
i dont understand what's so facinating about being topless? clothes bring modesty and respect in the eyes of others, otherwise there's not difference between you and animals? and when some man tries to take advantage of them, they start whining about their womanhood. you white people are just like pigs, animals roam around naked, have sex with anyone you want, you don't eve bother to ask their names as long as they are "fuckable". Support Topless Women
Days pass in adventure, paddling in dugout canoes or hiking through the rainforest with a guide from the village who points out leaves used to poison fish, or to make a maiden love you, and roots to enlarge your manhood.
As she traces her own journey from girlhood to womanhood in Calcutta, she evokes the intimate experiences of food and ritual that structure women's everyday life in Bengal.
Hymer is a young Swedish Viking in his early manhood and the heir to a village chief.
Tall, square-jawed and handsome, this young actor is Hollywood's ideal of manhood.
His early manhood was partly devoted to using the second to overcome the first.
She noted her slim figure, slight curves suggested womanhood.
Where does this leave modern womanhood? Times, Sunday Times
As a child I thought a pound of flesh was a euphemism for his manhood, the kitchen not really a room but a dungeon of tepid, slick dishwater and never believed promises. Fighting Irish
In the first dawn of my manhood the old painters of Italy had taught me their dangerous worship of the beauty that is more than mortal, but those images all seemed shadowy now, and floated before me so dimly, the one overcasting the other, that they left me no one sweet idol on which I could look and look again and say, Eothen
African women may feel multiple allegiances: community affiliations, ethnic identification, global womanhood, and racial solidarity.
This book, much like his previous two memoirs, is lush with narratives about manhood, fathers and sons, families and the changing face of the rural South. The Prince of Frogtown by Rick Bragg: Book summary
That evening, at the Villa Aioussa, there gathered a courtly assembly, of much higher rank than Algiers can commonly afford, because many of station as lofty as her own had been drawn thither to follow her to what the Princesse Corona called her banishment -- an endurable banishment enough under those azure skies, in that clear, elastic air, and with that charming "bonbonniere" in which to dwell, yet still a banishment to the reigning beauty of Paris, to one who had the habits and the commands of a wholly undisputed sovereignty in the royal splendor of her womanhood. Under Two Flags
Backed up by the views of psychologists, doctors and an actress who almost died trying to conform to the currently dominant stick - insect look, I looked forward to a return to a healthier ideal of womanhood.
Womanhood, according to the theory, is a manifold phenomenon as different women live and behave differently in different circumstances and conditions.
Yet public opinion had been captured, and it was taken for granted that lynching was a just response to the barbarous sexual crimes against white womanhood.
Entering Nunnington Hall is like stepping back to the heyday of the British Empire when English gentlemen proved their manhood by shooting game and fighting in wars.
He grew to manhood a pure and honest youth, free from the vices of his age, and "endued", says Sewel, "with a gravity and stayedness of mind seldom seen in children". The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
Fair friend," said she, "well I know that you tire: drink now, I pray you, of the flacket, and so shall your manhood come again at need. French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France
Why did he feel he had to prove his manhood in the company of women?
But he proved just as incapable in manhood as he was in infancy. Times, Sunday Times
She symbolised for me the best of Indian womanhood.
Some of that love is transferred to Kavita Asrani who Vishnu has watched blossom from childhood to full blown womanhood.
We're living in an era of greatly diminished expectations for heroes and further diminished standards for manhood among mere mortals.
Mirah's farewell look and words -- their exquisite appealingness stirring in him that deep-laid care for womanhood which had begun when his own lip was like a girl's -- her hold on his feeling had helped him to be blameless in word and deed under the difficult circumstances we know of. Daniel Deronda
Over time, exemption from taxation came to be seen by women as a right, an integral component of Ewe women's conception of an individual self and a collective Lomé womanhood which served as a platform for the 1933 uprising.
She stood tranquilly on the ground of their common womanhood. THE SCORN OF WOMEN
The feeling of them around my ankles and calves was like entering manhood. Times, Sunday Times
Go thy ways, old Jack; die when thou wilt, if manhood, good manhood, be not forgot upon the face of the earth, then am I a shotten herring. The first part of King Henry the Fourth
His continued success has allowed him to grow into manhood with a healthy sense of self, and a record label called Audio Research.
MILF seems to be a term appropriated from the pages of celebrity culture by teenage boys, men whose views of womanhood centre on one plastic image. Got MILF? | Her Bad Mother
The cheek, weather-beaten and embrowned, had lost the glow of youth, but showed the vigorous complexion of active and confirmed manhood. The Abbot
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle, old age a regret.
Rachel and Samson fight over their guests, leaving Samson to ponder the complexities of womanhood that he does not understand.
Then he would take off the customary toga praetexta of a Roman boy and put on him the toga virilis, the coat of manhood. THE NAMES OF JESUS
a man, with all the moving instincts of a loving and tender heart: and as a ruler, sure of his duty, he spoke the disinthralling edict, when multitudes still doubted: as a man he rejoiced in the glorious prospect of a race emancipated from a bondage more cruel than the grave, and elevated to the privileges of manhood and the opportunity of respect and honor. A Commemorative Discourse on the Death of Abraham Lincoln
Eventually, however, the honor, strength, character and womanhood of Radha the woman prevails and she returns back to her hungry children with honor and dignity.
A male clergy found a way of harnessing the devotion of women, whether in congregations or not, to promote the cult of the Virgin, both as a way of feminizing Catholicism and of legitimizing the virtues of womanhood and motherhood.
Masculinity and manhood have nothing to do with whom you sleep with or whom you love.
The son of an English tenant farmer, he received a good education and little else in the Lincolnshire community where he grew to manhood.
She had been true to her independent nature, fulfilling her womanhood in a manner that she found appropriate, although unable to assert herself finally.
Sincerity, a deep genuine, heart-felt sincerity, is a trait of true and noble manhood.
Though in early manhood he felt no embarrassment among men, he said 'that he never yet was able to divest himself of an anti-Chesterfieldian awkwardness in mixed companies.' Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII
A guy who installs underbody neons and drives around with his 15’ subwoofer pounding 24/7 is probably overly self-assured and cocky, not to mention compensating for his inadequate manhood.
it's an insult to American womanhood
Meanwhile it is referred to only because its consideration shows us some sort of excuse, if not warrant, for the higher education of woman, even though in the process of thus endowing her with economic independence, we disendow her of her distinctive womanhood, or at the very least imperil it; even though, more serious still, we deprive the race of her services as physical and psychical mother. Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles
You smiled with satisfaction when you saw how great the improvement was that baboonery had made toward manhood. Rattlin the Reefer
As a result, they are usually well acquainted with both their own and other people's anger by the time they reach manhood. 50 Ways to Become a Self-Confident Woman
By some instinct I told them at once about James Hinton, whom, of course, they knew by name as the first aurist of his day; how, with all that this life could give him, he had died of a broken heart, a heart broken over the lost and degraded womanhood of England, the hosts of young girls slain in body and soul whom he met with at night in our terrible streets. The Power of Womanhood, or Mothers and Sons A Book For Parents, And Those In Loco Parentis
As I have read the comments negatively addressing HuntingMom3, I must say I feel sorry for you guys who understand so little of what true manhood is that you would feel you need to defend yourselves against a Mother with valid concerns. The 2010 SHOT Show Booth Babe Roundup
Stoker wanted us to be revolted by the sexualizing of pure English womanhood, to see their corruption as striking at the foundation of English life and, by extension, civilized society.
When Ting returns to the fight club, he's obliged to defend the honour of Thai womanhood from a shaggy Australian behemoth.
He planted a chestnut tree at George Washington's grave, and on one occasion, according to rumor, eluded his guardians ‘and indulged his abounding manhood in the bagnios of New York.’
Why did he feel he had to prove his manhood in the company of women?
Rather, the first generation of Knights equated American manhood directly with Catholic religious faith and, by extension, the ungrudging performance of familial obligations.
Brigitte Bardot was the dominant image of womanhood in French cinema during the 1960s.
Born and reared among the lowly, a stranger to wealth and luxury, compelled to grapple single-handed with the flintiest hardships of life, from tender youth to sturdy manhood, he grew strong in the manly and heroic qualities demanded by the great mission to which he was called by the votes of his countrymen. Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time
With regard to those who have already passed147 the vigour of early manhood, and on whom the highest magistracies henceforth devolve, there is a like contrast. The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians
However, Alfred was not just appropriated by those wishing to extol racial destiny and/or imperial manhood in justification of the conduct of the war in South Africa.
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a ret.
Literature refutes both people who think gender should be abolished and people who have overly-narrow views of womanhood or manhood.
To account for recognition of theater women's accomplishments, Berlanstein cites the impact of republican anticlericals, who promoted new secular models for womanhood.
In the life of the nineteenth-century male, the time of transition from boyhood to manhood was variable in length and loose in the definition of its boundaries. American Manhood: Transformations in Masculinity from the Revolution to the Modern Era
It is symbolic of the fighting spirit of modern womanhood.
Each culture had a special ritual to initiate boys into manhood.
The Assembly voted to suspend the monarchy and convoke a new body elected by manhood suffrage, the Convention, to draw up a republican constitution for the country.
Elvis has just reached manhood—well, doghood—when Dad comes home one night, all excited. Late, Late at Night
The way that this originally purely comic figure became an icon for young womanhood is baffling. Times, Sunday Times
It's like the fossilized idea of American manhood.
This was the celebrated Dr Scoresby; a man who had spent his youth and manhood in the whale-fishing; who, late in life, entered the Church, and, until the day of his death, took a special delight in directing the attention of sailors to Him whose word stilled the tempest and bade the angry waves be calm. The Ocean and its Wonders
However, he would have been shocked to know of the pagan pleasure in nature and pretty womanhood experienced by Angel.
He had been a man careless of money himself all his days, but he had been, as the saying goes, no one's enemy but his own -- he feared that Howel might turn out, not only his own foe but the foe of others, since he perceived that the propensities of his unmonied youth were strengthening and maturing in his monied manhood. Gladys, the Reaper
I was uncovering a powerful voice of womanhood, embracing woman's strength, and heeding woman's necessary urging call.
For the more conservative Islamists, her baju kurung is a symbol of Muslim modesty and upright Muslim womanhood.
This time we play Cupid, and what we behold is a smoother landscape with fewer peaks and valleys, a thoroughly modern image of taut contemporary womanhood.
All but one of the sitters for this portrait of uncommon womanhood survived the war. Spitfire Women of World War II
For a man like him, a daredevil skier and helicopter pilot, being mayor would also be a supreme test of manhood.
She personifies the ‘unstained patriotic American womanhood our boys are fighting for.’
William had no siblings or friends to comfort him as he grew to manhood.
All Laotian men are expected to become monks, usually in early manhood, before marriage.
It seems to me that what you term your manhood was composed largely of pride, conceit, ignorance of yourself, and inexperience of the world. A Knight of the Nineteenth Century
our manhood's prime vigor
Sincerity, a deep genuine, heart-felt sincerity, is a trait of true and noble manhood.
Graves's goal was to promote model womanhood for young women by writing about ideal types.
On the other hand, womanhood is associated with the characteristics of being sensible, tender, nurturing and caring.
His descriptions of daily life show how manhood was closely entwined with the needs and expectations of a man's neighbors. American Manhood: Transformations in Masculinity from the Revolution to the Modern Era
I didn't want to be some grotesque parody of womanhood. The Sun
The story is seen through the eyes of a boy on the verge of manhood.
As Dexter enters manhood, the complex dream in which Judy and her world of social grandeur and illimitability remains with him, while he takes steps to transcend his own limited life, persuading his father to send him east to the Ivy League, where, with a subtle blend of dream and hard-headedness, he acquires the clothes and the mannerisms of Judy's class, while realizing that he can never himself fully enter it. Fitzgerald's 'Radiant World'
These dress-code offenders wear baggy pants, du-rags, flash their \ "bling bling\" like gold chains, and \ "decorative orthodontic appliances\" like gold teeth, and tattoos, bringing too much of black urban ghetto life to an elite college that fashions itself as the paragon of black manhood. Irene Monroe: Morehouse's Non-Tolerance for Gays
They said that they and others had bayoneted prisoners tied to stakes not out of blind fanaticism, but failing to do so would have meant a shame on their manhood, a criterion defined by the group.
The great world which I knew in my boyhood and early manhood is gone. Page 2
It depicts the strength and courage of Indian womanhood.
All through his sermons Topsell tries to portray Naomi and Ruth as symbols of ideal womanhood who are guilty of no moral or religious offense.
The Jews, like the Negroes, whom this mania often drives to crimes against womanhood, are equally abnormally full-blooded. . . A Renegade History of the United States
He could not realize how true to _himself_ he had been that afternoon, or how truly the impulse that had prompted him to deny his calling was an instinct of his own strong manhood -- the instinct to be accepted or rejected for what he was within himself, rather than for the mere accident of his calling and position in life. The Calling of Dan Matthews
No critique of American culture and manhood is complete without a discussion of athletics and the color line that long pervaded American sports.
Given the fact that manhood is associated with power, and being powerless is seen as unmanly, violence becomes a means to prove otherwise to others and oneself.
So now they fell on Hogni even as Atli urged them, and cut the heart from out of him, but such was the might of his manhood, that he laughed while he abode that torment, and all wondered at his worth, and in perpetual memory is it held sithence. The Story of the Volsungs
This was the history of the hoop skirt and the Grecian bend, and has been that of most of the extremes which have marked the past, and we can readily believe that in no other way could womanhood have been insnared by such supreme and criminal folly as has characterized fashion's caprices in unnumbered instances. The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891
Flora Manhood resisted the temptation to contemplate her own body.
By the time the duo meet years later, however, Kajol has mutated into the quintessential image of traditional womanhood, perpetually clothed in chiffon saris and polite diffidence.
Their coach questions everything from their heart to their courage to their brains to their manhood to their commitment.
The ambassador thought these warrior women must be a phenomenon of modern womanhood. ELIZABETH AND MARY: Cousins, Rivals, Queens
It's about my background and about roots, family, music and manhood.
I absolutely must not be allowed to wear this in real life for fear of turning into a twirling parody of womanhood. Times, Sunday Times
More reserved, more dignified, in the reserve of developed womanhood, her cession was the more gracious and wonderful. The Silver Horde
The virtue of white womanhood could not be assumed; it had to be enforced.
This more primitive expression of womanhood is fused with the typically reclining posture of renaissance figures, such as Michelangelo's Dawn.
They must do the chores of life, must gain in strength and wisdom to cope with the hostile time of manhood.
Did militant feminism require women to give up their womanhood and adopt masculinity?
Sincerity, a deep genuine, heart-felt sincerity, is a trait of true and noble manhood.
England had been, and revered him with such enthusiasm for what she called his magnificent manhood and beneficence, as was ready on the least encouragement to have become something a good deal warmer; but whatever she did served to make her distasteful to him. My Young Alcides
Stocking four flavours of dishy, piquant womanhood, it treated the audience to one tasty conundrum after another.
But Eleanor had somehow triumphed over the vagaries of age, just as she'd somehow triumphed over the confines and constraints of womanhood. HERE BE DRAGONS
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle, old age a regret.
Clean-limbed, smooth-skinned, slender, and supple, his Indian blood showing chiefly in a slight swarth of complexion and aquilinity of feature, he now approached his twentieth year and began to gain the strength of his manhood and to give promise of more than the average stature and physical power. Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska
Henry has to prove his manhood by juggling a wife and a full-time mistress.
The thing that made him stand out to her was how he changed in each of her dreams, growing and maturing from adolescence to manhood.
No more challenges in boyhood, no more hurdles to leap on the way to manhood.
Confronting ghostly apparitions of Annabel, he is overwhelmed by guilt for forcing her to have children to prove his manhood.
I remembered hearing about brave young boys going through the tribal rituals of manhood, their skin pierced with bone and marked with plant pigments to show their acceptance into the clan.
We see Annie Allen grow from childhood to womanhood in an atmosphere conditioned by poverty, racial discrimination, parental expectations, and unhappiness.
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle, old age a regret.
The railroad brotherhoods and their women's auxiliaries, however, deployed a ‘respectable’ style of manhood in their efforts to win train workers over to a temperate lifestyle.
It was as if they still retained more of the ingenuousness of primitive womanhood than she, and thus she "circumnavigated" them, while they, all too self-centred, had barely discovered in which hemisphere her shores were to be found. Too Old for Dolls A Novel
He had watched me since I had matured into womanhood, all the while pressuring his father to arrange the marriage.
The nonparticipants were clients of local social service agencies or friends of those who had participated in A Journey Toward Womanhood.
I believe he would have pardoned any thing in me more readily than poetry; which he called a cursed, sneaking, puling, housekeeping employment, the bane of all true manhood. Tales of a Traveller
The flower of successful womanhood -- those who have bargained shrewdly -- are to be found overfed, overdressed, sensualized, in great hotels, on mammoth steamers and luxurious trains, rushing hither and thither on idle errands. Together
A tea-house tucked under it is described curiously in my guidebook as a place, ‘to sit and drink tea or smoke the hubble-bubble, surrounded by slumbering Esfahan manhood.’
The editrix of British Vogue joined the cream of British womanhood Women Achievers who lunched with Queen Elizabeth on March 11th.
I didn't want to be some grotesque parody of womanhood. The Sun
His voice was just changing from its higher tones of youth to the deeper ones of his manhood.
When a boy reaches manhood, he should behave like a man.
Let us pray for unction, which is the marrowfat of humor, and for humility, which is the badge of manhood. Birds and Poets : with Other Papers
Even in childhood and young womanhood, there is little of the contingent and insignificant detail which humanises the great.
Yea, i have used minivans, trucks, and even an 01 buick century and i am still secure enough in my manhood to pull the trigger. you don't need the newest truck out there to hunt successfully contrary to popular "manly" belief. Why Minivans Make Great Hunting Vehicles
The man then bragged about his manhood. The Sun
Hardened and embittered by the selfish treasons that had beset his early boyhood, and which had forced him into manhood before his time, he came to England as one called thither by the late king's designation, and, therefore, the lawful heir. Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II
The poets no longer sing of the immortal gods, of war and sacrifice, while the flame mounts to manhood's cheek, red as the fires of Troy: They twitter of lovies and dovies, of posies and goose-liver pie, while pretty men applaud and sentimental maids get moonsick. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12
The law was “an insulting attempt to put the laborer under a legislative tutelage, which is not only degrading to his manhood, but subversive of his rights as a citizen of the United States.” A History of American Law
Brigitte Bardot was the dominant image of womanhood in French cinema during the 1960s.
In the 1380s, as he grew to manhood, his influence on affairs gradually increased.
Having known Miss Hamilton for most of his life, he told Hay he had watched her pass from “the sweetness of natural womanhood … through the acetous fermentation of belated virginity into the hard cider of middle age.” The Five of Hearts
The handsome and hulking father is openly envied by his adolescent son, a chiseled but baby-faced youth who desires the muscles of manhood and the adult respect of his beloved old man.
In the fourth place, the feeling and principle of fear ought to enter into the experience of both youth and manhood, _because it relieves from all other fear_. Sermons to the Natural Man
They have come to reject the traditional notion of womanhood.
Thy seidstaff passed over the leaves that, burning with fire-sparks, symbolled the life of the man, and from the third leaf the flame leaped up and died; and again a voice from thy breast, hollow, as if borne from a hill-top afar, made answer, 'At thine entrance to manhood life bursts into blaze, and shrivels up into ashes.' Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 10
German Cardinal Paul Josef Cordes, president of the Pontifical Council “Cor Unum,” the Vatican dicastery or administrative agency on charity, aid and relief, blamed “gender mainstreaming” and “radical feminism” for attacking biological manhood and insisting that “sexual roles are learned.” Archive 2009-02-01
If a boy and a puppy might grow to manhood and doghood together; and together grow old, and so in due course die, many a heartache might be avoided. The Case of Old Drum: An Inspiring Story Every Dog Owner Should Know

How To Use Manhood In A Sentence

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