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These were the writers who helped to make the "North American Review" what it was during the period of Emerson's youth and early manhood. [6]
You will not wonder that I address myself chiefly to those who are just leaving academic life for the sterner struggle and the larger tasks of matured and instructed manhood. [3]
But these discourses were both written and delivered in the freshness of his complete manhood. [6]
To me he was Nick Temple grown to manhood. [9]
But his lot was cast, and his youth had all the serious aspect to himself of thoughtful manhood. [6]
I have never wanted any released friend of mine restored to life since I reached manhood. [5]
Heaven strengthened it to repay the sacrifices of inconsiderate youth by one of thoughtful manhood. [12]
The thing about to be done was to him a test of manhood. [11]
The thought of throwing it off with his life, as too grievous to be borne, was familiar to his lonely hours, but he rejected it as unworthy of his manhood. [6]
I have passed through different stages of feeling with reference to it, as I have developed from infancy to manhood. [6]

Sentences containing manhood two or more times

Occidental manhood springs from that as its basis; Oriental manhood finds the greatest satisfaction in self-abasement. [6]

More example sentences with the word manhood in them

At thirty the youth has sobered into manhood, but the strong men of forty rise in almost unbroken rank between him and the approaches of old age as they show in the men of fifty. [6]
At the period when Emerson reached manhood, Unitarianism was the dominating form of belief in the more highly educated classes of both of the two great New England centres, the town of Boston and the University at Cambridge. [6]
My father, who was my instructor, my companion, my dearest and best friend through all my later youth and my earlier manhood, died three years ago and left me my own master, with the means of living as might best please my fancy. [6]
But how much virtue and manhood it has can never be told until they are tried, and those who are first to doubt the prevailing existence of these qualities are not commonly themselves patterns of either. [6]
Her son's growth toward manhood, at each of its stages, had seemed as extraordinary to her as if there had never existed the millions of human beings who grew up in the same way. [2]
When Floras tried to prove that under Hadrian's rule Rome had risen to the highest stage of its manhood, his friend, Demetrius, of Alexandria, interrupted him, and begged him to tell him something about the Emperor's person. [10]
It was disloyal to her, an offence against all that she was, an affront to his manhood to let the thought have place in his mind even for one swift moment. [11]
Gout, however, seems to fall under our rule, for it is generally caused by intemperance during manhood, and is transmitted from the father to his sons in a much more marked manner than to his daughters. [1]
Some, in the time when the manhood is bravest, Strongest to bear and the hands to endeavour, When all the life is the firmest and gravest, Left us for ever. [11]
In his wanderings the sick man was ever with his youth and early manhood, and again and again he uttered Barbara's name in caressing or entreaty; though it was the Barbara of far-off days that he invoked; the present one he did not know. [11]
Don't ever think the poetry is dead in an old man because his forehead is wrinkled, or that his manhood has left him when his hand trembles! [6]
It takes all the nonsense out of everybody, or ought to do it, to see how fairly the real manhood of a country is distributed over its surface. [6]
It has lost the flexibility, the plastic docility, which it had in youth and early manhood, when the gristle had but just become hardened into bone. [6]
But I am tender,--more and more tender as I come into my fulness of manhood. [6]
Manhood, human sympathy, surged up in him. [11]
The old lank straightness was gone, the shoulders were bent, the head was thrust forward, as though the long habit of looking into dark places had bowed it out of all manhood. [11]
I buried three sons in the prime of manhood, and two have been slain in battle. [10]
He had endured severe trials, it is true, for the sake of remaining faithful to truth in art and life; but who probably ever reached the age of manhood without once deviating from it? [10]
Have ye nae sense o' your manhood, young gentlemen, that for a mad gossip ower the wine ye wend into the dark to cut each other's throats? [11]
In spite of self-control, jail had been to him the degradation of his hopes, the humiliation of his manhood. [11]
Washington Hawkins had scarcely more than entered upon that decade which carries one to the full blossom of manhood which we term the beginning: of middle age, and yet a brief sojourn at the capital of the nation had made him old. [5]
My pipe was ready and would have been lit, if I had not been lost in thinking about how to banish oppression from this land and restore to all its people their stolen rights and manhood without disobliging anybody. [5]
And now the pride of his manhood rebelled, and it seemed base cowardice to cast aside, from dread of a woman's wrath and censure, all that a warrior held most dear. [10]
But in her presence something of his old youthfulness came back, some reflection of the ardent hopes of his young manhood. [11]
Where is the place where there is twenty-five times more manhood, pluck, true heroism, unselfishness, devotion to high and noble ideals, adoration of liberty, wide education, and brains, per thousand of population, than any other domain in the whole world can show? [5]
Scarcely a day passed that Phil did not drop in at the parish house.... And he set himself, with all the vigour of an unsquandered manhood, to help Hodder to solve the multitude of new problems by which they were beset. [9]
Nature gets us out of youth into manhood, as sailors are hurried on board of vessels,--in a state of intoxication. [6]
Their colonel, of our regular Army Engineer Corps, was one of those broad-shouldered six-footers who, when they walk the streets of Paris, compel pedestrians to turn admiringly and give one a new pride in the manhood of our nation. [9]
No magic spell, only the gifts of mind and soul which the vanquished victor, the woman Cleopatra, owed to the favour of the immortals, had compelled his lofty manhood to yield. [10]
She was the only human being that had power to shatter his egotism and resolve him into the common elements of a base manhood. [11]
If I went on, now, and took him into manhood, he would just like like all the one-horse men in literature and the reader would conceive a hearty contempt for him. [5]
In the midst of these arrangements Hermas took leave of him and of his father, for he heard the Roman war-trumpets and the drums of the young manhood of Pharan, as they marched through the short cut to meet the enemy. [10]
In the eye of the young man there had come the glance of larger life, of a new-developed manhood. [11]
The head engineer of the Amaranth, a grand specimen of physical manhood, struggled to his feet a ghastly spectacle and strode toward his brother, the second engineer, who was unhurt. [5]
Two precious years of my early manhood were spent there under the reign of Louis Philippe, king of the French, _le Roi Citoyen_. [6]
The full stature of manhood is shrivelled-- The color burst up into my cheeks. [6]
In the prime of manhood he is an old man, but he is beginning to accommodate himself to life, only he can't bear the sight of a strange face. [10]
The highest type of manhood had met perfect womanhood. [10]
The mutilated dignity of his manhood, the broken pride of a lifetime, the bitterness in his heart need not be held in check in dealing with the man who waited to give him a last thrust of enmity. [11]
If the men of Askatoon had any manhood in them they would tar- and-feather you. [11]
I always think of a familiar experience which I bring from the French cafes, well known to me in my early manhood. [6]
And they know not of the sadness, Of the palpitating pain Drawn through arid veins of manhood, Or the lusts that life disdain. [11]
And have you not manhood enough to make your own life for yourself? [9]
The Greek does not attain full manhood till he becomes husband and father. [10]
Here, at a nominal rent, the cottager could grow his vegetables; a little spot of the great acre of England, which gave the labourer a tiny sense of ownership, of manhood. [11]
This was what my father and his advisers had always anticipated, and was the ground of their confident hope in my return to natural conditions before I should have grown to mature manhood. [6]
Is it too much to say that whether the war is hopeless or not for the North depends chiefly on the answer to the question, whether the North has virtue and manhood enough to persevere in the contest so long as its resources hold out? [6]
You see in me the melancholy wreck of a once stalwart and magnificent manhood. [5]
Now, in my mature manhood, I desired to comprehend those marvellous gifts of mind, that matchless sagacity--" "Sagacity! [10]
No, the young man's father was, like himself, one of the old Macedonian stock; he had seen his daughter's lover grow to manhood, and there was not in the city a youth he could more heartily welcome. [10]
I became a man in years, and had nothing in common with manhood but its longings. [6]
And, may the Lord be gracious unto me, to lose so noble a son, in the dawn of his early manhood, just at the moment he had won such brilliant renown, must indeed be a bitter grief, a grief beyond all others! [10]
If you will look carefully at any class of students in one of our colleges, you will have no difficulty in selecting specimens of two different aspects of youthful manhood. [6]
Our literature, before long, will be like some of those premature and aspiring whipsters, who become old men before they are young ones, and fancy they prove their manhood by their profligacy and their diseases. [4]
There was a long interval between his early manhood and the middle term of life, during which the slow process of evolution was going on. [6]
He had a little red-blooded manhood in him. [6]
Gabriel Andral was little more than half the age of Broussais, in the full prime and vigor of manhood at thirty-seven years. [6]
I do not like the assumption of titles of Lords and Knights by plain citizens of a country which prides itself on recognizing simple manhood and womanhood as sufficiently entitled to respect without these unnecessary additions. [6]
She pleads for justice, in the name of honourable warfare, for the sake of all good manhood. [11]
Its thorough manhood, its high-caste gallantry, are not so manifest as the plate-glass of its windows and the more or less legitimate heraldry of its coach-panels. [6]
Little by little its flames were smothered until in manhood there seemed no spark of it left alive. [9]
This bud, when it had bloomed to manhood, might prove itself, as he himself had done in his youth, the stronger among the strong. [10]
And, indeed, his interest was great-- so great that all his manhood, vigour, all his citizenship, were vitally alive. [11]
Such were Emerson's intellectual and moral parentage, nurture, and environment; such was the atmosphere in which he grew up from youth to manhood. [6]
His writings, whether in prose or verse, are worthy of admiration, but his manhood was the underlying quality which gave them their true value. [6]
For a while I thought he was going to tell us the effect which my book had upon his growing manhood. [5]
To be sure, I should have to wait until early manhood, at least, for the accomplishment of such a coup. [9]
Herdegen led his horse by the bridle, and Ann went between him and me and gazed up into his face with shining eyes, for in these two years he had grown in stature and in manhood. [10]
She saw that he stumbled as he walked, and that, every now and then, he lifted his head with an effort and threw it back, and threw his shoulders back also, as though to assert his physical manhood. [11]
By simple processes he drew from Gregory his aims and ambitions, and found the real courage and power behind the front of irony--the language of manhood and culture which was crusted by free and easy idioms. [11]
What nobler tasks has the poet than to exalt the idea of manhood, and to make the world we live in more beautiful? [6]
After all, what had I to live for if the great primal instinct which strives to make whole the half life of lonely manhood is defeated, suppressed, crushed out of existence? [6]
If a grandly gifted man may drag his pride and his manhood in the dirt for bread rather than starve with the nobility that is in him untainted, the excuse is a valid one. [5]
Up to a fortnight ago they couldn't; they really hadn't manhood enough; but they were gaining it, and now I think they are safe. [5]
Though much less formal, more democratic--in a word--than my father, I stood in awe of him for a different reason, and this I know now was because he possessed the penetration to discern the flaws in my youthful character,--flaws that persisted in manhood. [9]
Yet Ledscha had felt a strong affection for the young pirate, in whom she saw the embodiment of heroic manhood. [10]
He was in every way greatly improved; the interesting, impulsive youth had ripened into a noble manhood. [6]
In youth, in early manhood, we do wrong. [11]
Gray age had drunk her life and had given her nothing in return--neither companionship nor sympathy nor understanding; only the hunger of a coarse manhood. [11]
He left the Doctor with a hollow feeling at the bottom of his soul, as if a good piece of his manhood had been scooped out of him. [6]
Then followed a deep, sincere appeal to his manhood, and afterwards a wish that their real relations should be made known to the world if he needed her, or if disaster came; that she might share and comfort his life, whatever it might be. [11]
The brain kept commanding the body back to life and manhood daily. [11]
When they have come across a moral monster they have seemed to think that he put himself together, having a free choice of all the constituents which make up manhood, and that consequently no punishment could be too bad for him. [6]
Only when the client had felt in his pocket for the price of the flaying, and laid it, with a ten-cent fee, on the ledge beneath the mirror, where all the implements of the inquisition and the restoration were assembled, did he feel manhood restored. [11]
The strong, tall chief, with the dark face and fierce eyes, roused in him the regard of youth for strong manhood. [11]
An impoverished organization carries with it certain neutral qualities which make its subject appear, in the presence of complete manhood and womanhood, like a deaf-mute among speaking persons. [6]
Why, the aboriginal bipeds, to be sure,--he answered,--the red-crayon sketch of humanity laid on the canvas before the colors for the real manhood were ready. [6]
Later on, I began to take a cursory interest in him, to watch for signs in him of certain characteristics of my own youth which, in the philosophy of my manhood, I had come to regard as defects. [9]
He had already been invested with the robe of manhood after the battle of Kadesh; he was now appointed to the command of a legion of chariot-warriors, and the order of the lion to wear round his neck was bestowed on him for his bravery. [10]
Here let there be what the earth waits for,--exalted manhood. [6]
There could not be a stronger appeal to his manhood and his fidelity. [4]
Both were turned away from the clerical office by a revolt of conscience against the beliefs required of them; both lost very dear objects of affection in early manhood, and mourned for them in tender and mellifluous threnodies. [6]
By and by, as he approached manhood, he began speaking in the rude gatherings of the neighborhood, and so laid the foundation of that art of persuading his fellow-men which was one rich result of his education, and one great secret of his subsequent success. [7]
All the anxiety and restlessness which had tortured him had fled, and his manhood showed bold and serene in the brightening dusk. [11]
Yet it was all a twisted manhood had to give. [11]
Spite of his age, he stood before her in the full flush of manhood and stately dignity, and the beseeching expression of eyes whose glance was wont to be so imperious and steadfast stirred the inmost depths of her soul. [10]
She saw him, after a sleepless night, haunted by her warnings, her appeal to his English manhood. [11]
Whole ages of abuse and oppression cannot crush the manhood clear out of him. [5]

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