So the great rule is, That he have a good manful meaning, and then that he take what "mode of utterance" is honestly the readiest for him.
Manful contest there shall be;[3] Their foes they lie in wait for And slay them all to-day!
The other boys were all at work, even little Jamie, many of whose play hours were devoted to manful struggles with Latin grammar, the evil genius of his boyish life.
Rose saw all this, and longed to inspire her brilliant cousin with some manful purpose, which should win for him respect as well as admiration.
There never was a more manful and admirable expression of the devotion of the service, than the promise of their cordial, whole-hearted, and laborious support of the policy which they have now got to carry through.
A mouth for mastery and manful work, A certain brooding sweetness in the eyes, A brow the harbor of grave thought, and hair Saxon of hue.
So far from it, I have always had an infinite respect for asceticism, as a noble and manful thing--the only manful thing to my eyes left in popery; and fast dying out of that under Jesuit influence.
Tregarva; and the two young men joined hands in that sacred bond--now growing rarer and rarer year by year--the utter friendship of two equal manful hearts.
Yes, quite, quite sure,' Dick answered with a tremor, but with manful persistence.
But Polly's sudden entrance had roused him, and he propped himself up anew, with a manful resolve to hold his eyes open, or die.
Grandma's name recalled the tender memory that always did him good, and the thought that Polly trusted her dearest brother to his care stirred up a manful desire to deserve the confidence.
Tom's head went down again with something very like a sob, that would come in spite of manful efforts to keep it back, for the poor fellow had the warmest heart that ever was, and all the fine waistcoats outside could n't spoil it.
And he believed what he said, and lived manful and pure, reverent and self-denying, by that belief, as the first Moslem did.
But he had yet to learn, or rather his tutors had to learn, that the sure path toward willing obedience andmanful self-restraint, lies not through slavery, but through liberty.
They say that he is not only a manful soldier, but steady,--which is even a wonder to me, for he was always a whirlwind.
It is not wise to ignore this future struggle, but our main responsibility is to bear a manful part in the struggle which is now upon us.
Amid the plaudits that ring around this manful deed, Matt suddenly finds Herbert at his side.
Nevertheless the same qualities which made a manful fighter then, make one now.
But surely such reversal of feeling is only that which would be felt by any man of ordinarily manful make upon discovering that he had greatly wronged anyone, particularly a loved one.
I used to like to see you together,--you so sturdy and manful and true, and he delicate and handsome and adoring.
There are but three of the scalping devils, and we are five, four of whom may be set down asmanful warriors for such a skrimmage.
I say we ought to make a manful fight in Mabel's behalf.
But his wife, who had more than a man's courage, chid his weakness, and put heart into him with her manful admonitions.
