He owed them the confidence of his bearing before the world, the manly swing of his step, the pride of his glance.
With faith and manly courage the yoke has the very opposite effect.
From the reputation and remembrance of my father,[B] modesty and a manly character.
Musonius Rufus,[A] and the poets Persius and Juvenal, whose energetic language and manly thoughts may be as instructive to us now as they might have been to their contemporaries.
The conduct of Commander Renshaw toward the inhabitants of Galveston had been marked by moderation and propriety, and the closing act of his life was one of manly courage and fidelity to the flag he bore.
A faithful and manly protest against this outrage, made by a venerable and illustrious Marylander, to whom in his better days no citizen appealed for right in vain, was treated with scorn and contempt.
The cheers, which responded to the utterances of their colonel, came from manly and chivalric throats.
They said: "We have been guilty of no offense against the laws of our country, but have simply exercised our constitutional rights as free citizens in the open and manly expression of our opinions upon public affairs.
Close to the manly head he had seen, was the marble face of Mabel Harrington, half veiled by tresses of wet hair.
He certainly was a splendid creature, formed in the perfection of manly strength, and quite handsome enough to turn the head of a vain girl like Lucy.
There were not enough handcuffs in the ship for the whole British crew, and the Americans felt a manly unwillingness to handcuff any of the men who had fought them so bravely.
The fine appearance of the American ships and the smartness of their officers and crews were generally admired, and Dale himself made friends and admirers by his manly and modest bearing.
Captain Barreault knew that the Constellation was the heavier, but he did not on that account refuse the battle, but showed a manly willingness to fight.
Whether you think with me, I know not; but the famous "De mortuis nil nisi bonum" always appeared to me to savour more of female weakness than of manly reason.
At home the Esquarts had sung duets; Diana had assisted Redworth's manly chest-notes at the piano.
Mr. Redworth, however, was manly and trustworthy, of the finest Saxon type in build and in character.
His manly self was not intruded on his cogitations.
Nearly every one loved him, he was so manly and yet so gentle.
We had met again and again, and in his honest, manly way he had asked me to be his wife.
Maude in anguished tones, when she remembered the note and opened it hastily, to read a few lines full of manly love and respect; and as she read of her wooer's determination never to give her up, her heart grew stronger in its faith.
One thing should not be forgotten in connection with this long, tedious imprisonment: the love of country existing in every manly heart, despite his feeling at times the Government did neglect him.
A colloquy then ensues between the manlysinger and the maiden, which we need not repeat.
He wears a flowing robe, which nevertheless permits his slender, manly legs to come out and be visible.
The skin of a lion hung from his neck over his manly shoulders.
His handsome countenance and manlyfigure never appeared impressed with such a nobility of character as when he bowed in acknowledgment of the universal enthusiasm which was excited in his favour.
After tasting food, he assumed his usualmanly dignity of character, and assumed the oratorical attitude.
Her hand was sought by a young man of humble parentage, who had no other merits to recommend him but such as might arise from a tall and commanding person, a manly step, and an eye beaming with the tropical fires of youth and love.
With a tall, manly form, and the fire of youth beaming from his eye, there was no forest too gloomy for him to penetrate, and no track made by the numerous kinds of birds and beasts which he could not follow.
Many lines are spirited, but others betray Dryden's fatal insensibility to the ridiculous in his own person: 'When humbly on the royal babe we gaze, The manly lines of a majestic face Give awful joy.
Yet he evinces so much manly sense, and his style is so nervous, that it is impossible not to admire his vigour, and wish him a more inviting subject.
The intrigue by which Dolabella is made to excite Antony's jealousy is more worthy of comedy than of heroic tragedy, besides being inconsistent with the manly character of its promoter, Ventidius.
They call my tenderness of blood, my fear; Though manlytempers can the longest bear.
He stood looking down at her, an image of manly humility, while from his silent breast went out a brief thanksgiving to favoring fortune.
Sir," said Ken, in a more manly tone, "I hope that you will grant to us that liberty of conscience which you grant to all mankind.
In a pathetic and manlyletter he declared that he had already carried his obedience to the farthest point to which a Protestant and an Englishman could go.
For a single word of honest and manly sound, escaping in the midst of all this abject supplication, was sufficient to move his anger.
The Protestants of our island applauded the manly firmness with which William declared that he could not consent to entrust Papists with any share in the government.
He was so manly and kind that I wanted to be nice to him.
Sir Clement was a manly gentleman, but his politics were that people should not climb out of the station they were born into.
He was directed to see a manly arm round the waist of the mignonne.
I can't have my boy John married without seeing it done," she said, and throughout the ceremony she was muttering audible encomiums on her John's manly behaviour.
She had last seen them in all their pride and manly beauty, reviewed by her husband, the Governor, before they left their State.
With a touch gentle as a woman, yet with manly strength and firmness, and untiring watchfulness and thoughtful care, he seems wholly devoted to the work of benefiting our sick and wounded soldiers.
She does not underestimate the worth of true womanhood by attempting to act a distinctively manly part.
That must be a sad discipline which not only wastes themanly form till the sign of humanity is nearly obliterated, but breaks the manly spirit till it is as tender as a child's.
As we looked upon the beautiful face and manly form, and thought of the mother and sister in their distant home, surrounded by every luxury wealth could purchase, worlds seemed all too cheap to give to have him with them.
He is a great deal too downright and manly to appreciate the flimsy delicacies of small society--you cannot expect a lion to roar you like any sucking dove, or frisk about a drawing-room like a lady's little spaniel.
Have I ever shown cowardice or lack of manly spirit?
It was not alone for his handsome face and person and manly bearing that this favored youth was chosen, but also because he was descended from a noble family of Corinth which Cleisthenes esteemed.
His very figure told the observer that, and the manly aquiline features and the mild, yet searching blue eye had never left an instant's doubt about it in the mind of any man.
But as he rose from the last round, and spat out the fragments of one or two broken teeth, he said things which filled the honourable and manly spirit of young Jervase with a terror to which he hardly dared to give a name.
Oh, it was all over, and one manlyheart was sore and cold.
To the father's eye he had never looked so manly and handsome as he did at this moment, and what with fatherly pride and self pity and a sense of the magnanimity of his own purposes, the emotions of John Jervase were strangely mixed.
He had seen service in every quarter of the world, and his manly chest was covered with well-won medals.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "manly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
