28 Verbs to Use for the Word manliness

The sonnets of both alike are contributions to philosophical poetry in an age when the Italians had lost their ancient manliness and energy.

We leave it to others to admire the manliness of the transaction, and the courage displayed by a mob of hundreds, in the various outrages upon the persons and property of three or four individuals who fell under its vengeance.

The sense of man and all his mind possess, As beauty's loveliest bait, that doth procure Great warriors erst their rigour to suppress, And mighty hands forget their manliness, Driven with the power of an heart-burning eye, And lapt in flowers of a golden tress.

He had been brave enough and manly enough to recognize this, and also to recognize what it took still more manliness to recognize,that she could never love a man of his temperament.

But, the habits of tyranny in which Huckstep had so long indulged, had accustomed him to abject submission, on the part of his subjects; and he could not endure this upright and unbroken manliness.

I observed that Dr. Johnson, though he shewed that respect to his lordship, which, from principle, he always does to high rank, yet, when they came to argument, maintained that manliness which becomes the force and vigour of his understanding.

But the lovers of poetry found delight in it, apart from these characteristics,in its fresh descriptions of Nature, its healthy manliness of tone, its scholarly construction, its lively humor, its large thought quickened and deepened by the penetrating imagination of the poet.

From his days down to the present, the sports of the field have continued to hold their high reputation, not only for the promotion of health, but for helping to form that manliness of character which enters so largely into the composition of the sons of the British soil.

I glanced across at him, noting how straight he stood in his well-worn uniform, how gray his hair was, and the stern manliness of his face.

It likewise so happened that while indulged by his only friend, his mother, to an excess that impaired the manliness of his character, her conduct was such as in no degree to merit the affection which her wayward fondness inspired.

George had risen to the rank of lieutenant in the army, and had acquired a military bearing that considerably increased the manliness of his appearance.

You sayand you are witty That Iand, tis a pity Of manhood lack but dress; But you lack manliness, A body clean and new, A soul within it, too.

I like this manliness of reply.

"I love manliness and the sense of right, which is called duty, better than I love a man who is blind to the first impulse of real manhood" "Would you ask a Jew to give up his synagogue to gain your hand?

Virtue (to trace only a few of its varied activities) meant manliness, then the quality or attribute peculiar to true manhood (with the Romans this was valor), then any admirable quality, then female chastity.

When he performs any small kindness, praise his manliness.

The very first sound of his voice had prejudiced me, and when I saw him I knew I was rightwith him manliness was but veneer.

Have you not received manliness?

She felt that he might have a right to reproach her for coming there, and she was grateful to him for not doing so, having really very little idea of the nature of the over-submissive and humble love which sapped his manliness instead of rousing his courage.

Drinking, supposed manliness attached to.

Any who have had personal and intimate experience of how schools work with it and without it, know what a Palladium it is of happiness and morality; how it prevents bullying, upholds manliness, is the bulwark of discipline, and makes boys more earnest and thoughtful, often at the most critical period of their lives, by enlisting all their sympathies and interests on the side of the honorable and the just.

He wanted manliness.

Better to be called a "sissy" than to win reputed manliness at the cost of self-respect.

Vaisampayana continued, "The son of Dhritarashtra, O chastiser of foes, having said this, Bhishma and Drona and Kripa and Drona's son all applauded his manliness!"

They thought he ought to have asserted his manliness and taken the burden on himself, and not lean upon his delicate and trusting wife as he seemed to do.

28 Verbs to Use for the Word  manliness