"Manly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... know you, my lad. That's frank and manly of you. The right stuff in him, Mistress Forrester. He'll make a good man, ...
— Crown and Sceptre - A West Country Story • George Manville Fenn
... letter from Jasper, Hilda darling," said Aunt Marjorie, coming into Judy's bedroom two or three days after the events mentioned in the last chapter. "I know the hand-writing, dear. How strong and manly it looks. I do love a ...
— A Young Mutineer • Mrs. L. T. Meade
... of one minute the old enchantment shone upon him with a reflected radiance. And then by turns he felt the manly sensations of indignation at having been discarded, and of repugnance at having been—as it were—sought again. And last of all—how strange that it should have come at last!—the pale-blue vision of the beautifulest of the Trenholme sisters illuminated ...
— Options • O. Henry
... These manly sentiments, in private life, make the good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero. I do not say that, when brought to the test, I shall be invincible. I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial, but if ever I should, it will be then known how far I can reduce to practice ...
— American Eloquence, Volume I. (of 4) - Studies In American Political History (1896) • Various
... seemingly impervious covering lurked a womanly romance of temperament, a womanly tenderness of heart, than which nothing would have made him so angry as to be accused of possessing. His habits were manly and simple, his chief ambition was to distinguish himself as a soldier, and so far as he could find opportunity he had seen service with credit on the staff. A keen sportsman, he could ride and shoot as well as his neighbours, and this is saying no little ...
— M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur." • G.J. Whyte-Melville
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