Both as regards the primary reproductive organs, their size and shape, and the character of their implantation, malformations and anomalies, as well as the physical and mental traits lumped as the secondary sexual, puberty, maturity, and senility, voice changes and erotic trends, virility and femininity, the internal secretions are dictators at every step.

How is it that death has already laid its hand upon Paris, which, whatever her splendor, is but the capital of a France whose virility is weakened?

He now had some claims to be called nice-looking, or at least to a certain air of virility that would not lessen his value in the eyes of the opposite sex.

Adolescence N. adolescence, pubescence, majority; adultism; adultness &c adj.; manhood, virility, maturity full age, ripe age; flower of age; prime of life, meridian of life, spring of life.

This having been several times impressed upon us, we naturally expect that the wife is to be rescued by some striking manifestation of the husband's masterful virility.

For virility and earnestness like that of the Bulgars there is a place, not only in the Balkans, but everywhere.

The only character in the entire narrative who has any virility is the antiquarian, and he is one of the meanest Loeben ever drew.

His prose works lack artistic measure and objective plausibility; his lyrics lack clarity and virility; his creations in general lack the story-telling property that holds attention and the human-interest touches that move the soul.

Of the longer quotations selected we would particularly draw attention to the humorous and epigrammatic parody of Wordsworth, on whom Wilson elsewhere bestows generous enthusiasm; and the broad-minded outlook which can appreciate the contrasted virility of Byron and Dr. Johnson.

The Roman audience of the early Empire enjoyed these things, and all sorts of dancing, singing, and instrumental music, and above all the pantomimus, in which the actor only gesticulated, without speaking; this and the fact that the real drama never again had a fair chance is one of the many signs that the city population was losing both virility and intelligence.

He was uncommonly good-looking, also, and tall and shapely, yet there was something about his full figurethat vague, indescribable somethingwhich unmistakably marks the lack of virility in mind or body, no matter how large or handsome a man may be.

A strange sense of self-realizationlost to him in his years of exileclimbed like fire through him; and with it the return of a lost virility, a supreme vigor tingling each little nerve; a sense of strength and power that was almost blinding.

After speaking of the old Armenian kings with enthusiasm, and even condoning their paganism for the sake of their virility, he leaves his collection in the utmost disorder and positively without a note or comment.

President Roosevelt, for example, was one of the pioneers in this new development, this restoration of virility to the gentlemanly ideal.

Omar Pasha arrived on the ninth of April, and, two days after, 2000 insurgents attacked the guard of the aqueduct which supplied Canea with water, and were repelled, the plan of attack having been betrayed by a miller of the vicinity; but the main object of the Cretans had been to show a sign of virility to the new commander-in-chief, and the object was attained with the loss of three killed.

There may be a perceptible lack of virility, a fluctuating vagueness of outline about the characterisation of some of his men.

All the virility of Calvert's nature, all his new-world independence and his sense of honor, was revolted by such a state of things.

Not so the Bulgarian nationality; as is so often the case with mongrel products, this race, compared with the Serbs, who are purely Slav, has shown considerably greater virility, cohesion, and driving-power, though it must be conceded that its problems have been infinitely simpler.

His attitude gave him a sensation of exquisite and powerful virility.

He was a man of prodigious vitality, virility, and invention; abounding in enjoyment, gaiety, vanity, and kindness; the richness, force, and celerity of his nature was amazing.

The whole collection is marked by virility, simplicity of manner, and genuine strength and feeling.

If they did so, it is believed that they would lose their virility; "in the rain they will shiver and in the heat they will faint."

But he was no match for the virility and science of his young opponent.

Their literature is generally lacking in virility, and is mostly imitative and devoid of national character.

But there was a strength and virility about everything, from the vulcanic pounding and crashing in mills and arsenals to the sturdy uniformed women who were pushing heavy trucks along railroad platforms or polishing railings and door knobs on the long lines of cars in the train yards.