It was also Nancy's idea that, there being no strictly masculine bit of martyrdom to give to Gilbert, he should polish the silver for his share.

I respect the mythical dreams of his 'young days'; I assume that he has been really in love; but, pray press me not too curiously as to whether I believe it all, as to whether I really imagine that his youth knew other dreams than those of the foolish young 'masherdom' one meets in the train every morning, or that he has married a wife for other than purely 'masculine' reasons.

" Kipling's spirit is essentially masculine.

Without intending an exact parallel, he might be called the Fielding of French Literature,intensely masculine, an artist who works outward from an informing idea, a satirist whose humor will not let him despise human nature even while he exposes its weaknesses.

Some of the trees are commandingly masculine; others, though as immense, graciously feminine.

Manlike refers to qualities, attributes, or foibles characteristically masculine.

A certain famous novelist meant well when recently he celebrated woman as "the mother of the male," but such celebration, while ludicrously masculine in its egotistic limitation, would have fallen short even if he had stopped to mention that she was the mother of the female, too; for not merely in the fact that she is the mother of the race resides the essential mystery of her motherhood.

All about him was a lustily masculine phase of the world, giant trees dominating giant slopes, rugged boulders upheaved, iron cliffs defying time and battling the years; he, like them, was virile, his sex clothing him magnificently.

She was more and more frequently possessed by the spirit of Erasmus, whose salutations, on meeting and parting with his brother-philosopher, were too enthusiastic for merely masculine love.

And she became humble before him, for in the space of a few seconds he had grown mysteriously and powerfully masculine to her.

Her voice had the effect of shrillness though it remained low; her hands flew out, grasping the table-edge at arms' length with an oddly masculine gesture.

After a portentous wait, on swept a lady with an extraordinary flashing eye, a masculine and muscular outside.

In the Western States men are beginning to elect women county treasurers, county superintendents of schools, and in Chicago, second largest city in the country, a Board of Education, overwhelmingly masculine, recently appointed a woman City Superintendent of Schools.

If upright Rectitude and stern Justice were peculiarly masculine, Mercy had the gentleness and the persuasiveness of a feminine nature.

He felt powerfully masculine, triumphant, glorious.

Deweys at that hour was securely masculine.

All her personal belongings were scattered about, and the severely masculine atmosphere had been completely driven forth.

Grillparzer himself lacked the specifically masculine qualities of courageous enterprise and tenacity of purpose.

Then silent laughter shook the old man's shoulders, and thencould it be?there crept about his lips and eyes a smile of superbly masculine conceit.

Bravely the horse stepped out for its week's journey, and bravely its rider sat, leaving me and the shadeless, wooden sun-baked house on the side of the hill, with the regretlessness of teensespecially masculine teens.

It's soso typically masculine.

In Schoolcraft (V., 274) we are told concerning the Creek women that "being condemned to perform all the hard labor, they are universally masculine in appearance, without one soft blandishment to render them desirable or lovely."

All this gentlenesshave a care!is that of an unusually masculine restraint.

The attitudes and questionings in these passages, the religious feeling displayed, are distinctly masculine.

His style was always eminently masculine.