Should a thought so fatal and unmanly possess the colonies in the present contest, the name of ancestors will be remembered by future generations with detestation.
I mean not to exhibit horror for the purpose of provoking revenge, but to awaken us from fatal and unmanly slumbers, that we may pursue determinately some fixed object.
It was the suddenness of the shock that made me utter that unmanly plaint.
It is unmanly to give way like this, and is a wrong to my noble, unselfish foster mother and father.
And then to be told that one is unmanly by the father, and a coward by the young lady, as occurred to me in this affair, is disheartening.
Frank had fully considered the matter, and was quite resolved that it would be unmanly in him to run after his cousin Imogene, in the Tyrol, before he had performed his business.
A man who was so pure and strong that we could not imagine him doing an unmanly thing anywhere.
If she has not, you are very unjust to her; if she has, remember she is a woman, bowed down with many sorrows, and it is unmanly to hoard up old differences.
For nearly an hour they continued their cruel and unmanly sport, until he became frantic, and began to exhibit unequivocal evidences of a terrified and shattered intellect.
In order to ensure a passport for their letters, the unmanly conduct of the keepers has driven the prisoners into a style of writing which must be disgusting to all but those who love to be flattered.
It is malicious and unmanlyto snarl at the little lapses of a pen, from which Virgil himself stands not exempted.
That no unmanly weakness in your sufferings Disgrace the native honour of our isle: For you I mourn, grief for myself were vain; I have lost all, and now would lose my pain.
If this be earnest, you have done a most unmanly and ungrateful part, to court the intended wife of him, to whom you are most obliged.
That the writers are not known outside the office, seems to me a very unmanly reason for their misrepresentations.
The fact is, Fern, your mother can no longer protect me; your brother's unmanly persecution is driving me away.
If you were to go down on your knees to me, I would not: I should deserve that God should strike me dead if I could be guilty of such unmanly selfishness!
It would be unmanly in me to wish to ruin you because I myself am ruined.
Lady Desmond, it is true; and I think that my conduct is neither unmanly nor ungenerous.
But he had not that vile sin, that unmanly folly, which would have made a marriage with a widowed countess eligible in his eyes, merely because she was a countess, and not more than fifteen years his senior.
Mr. Fitzgerald, if this be true your conduct to my daughter has been unmanlyas well as ungenerous.
He wrote me back, with a soldier's honourable frankness, that 'I had always behaved honourably in my intercourse with him, and he did not believe I would do an unmanly thing.
Her unmanly enemy furiously mastered her remaining efforts; her feeble struggles were almost overpowered, and as her senses were about to forsake her, she wildly shrieked aloud for help.
She recoiled with abhorrence from his loathsome caresses; cursed in bitter agony his unmanly deed, and brooded over her misfortune, until the loss of her reason followed the profanation of her person.
There lies ever in "obsequious" at the present the sense of an observance which is overdone, of an unmanlyreadiness to fall in with the will of another.
Defn: To utter or express plaintively, or in a mean, unmanly way; as, to whine out an excuse.
She felt that it was almost unmanly of him thus to seek her out, and hunt her down, and then throw upon her the whole weight of the explanation that his coming thither made necessary.
The Duc de Montmorency was meanwhile furious at the contempt incurred by the unmanly bearing of his son-in-law, M.