He was essentially manly, and a presence to be feared.

As might be supposed, he is never obtrusively manly.

His opinions were right in part, certainly; for they depended on a law of nature, while it is not improbable they were wrong in all that was connected with the notions of any peculiarly manly quality, in any particular part of christendom.

Taken as a whole, there is something impalpable and immaterial about him, which I will not venture to call effeminate, but which is scarcely manly.

Similarly Dr. Basil Manly, president of the University of Alabama, spoke in 1841 of the inveterate habit of Southern farmers to buy more land and slaves and plod on captive to the customs of their ancestors; and C.C. Clay, Senator from Alabama, said in 1855 of his native county of Madison, which lay on the Tennessee border: "I can show you ... the sad memorials of the artless and exhausting culture of cotton.

As I knew him afterwards, and to the end of his days, he was a strikingly manly man, not only in appearance but in bearing.

It was a fair stand-up fight on level ground, where downright manly courage was alone to decide the issue.

There are the irretrievably wretched education, and the unquenchably manly instincts, both contending in the confirmed roué, which melt us to the tenderest pity.