10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNMANFUL»
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Middle English Dictionary
... el 460 Tree & Fruits HG 133/17: Axe not pi mete and pi drinke to gredily ne to
hastily ne forto receyue it vnmanerly, but esily, sadly, and religiously. unmanful
adj. [From manful adj.] Cruel, unkind. a 1500 *Medulla (Cnt) 69a/a: Inhumanus: ...
Hans Kurath, Sherman McAllister Kuhn, Robert E. Lewis, 1952
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A Vindication of Three of Our Blessed Saviour's Miracles: ...
The ancients, who by many are thought best to have understood human na-'ture,
did not think tears unmanful, or disgraceful to aman of true fortitude; as might be
amply shewn, * Scc Df- Harrit's Remarks on the Case os Lazarus, p. 75. shewn ...
... patience; and, though hot-tempered like all the Hohenzollerns, that he bore
himself like a perfect gentleman for one thing; and tottered along his high-lying
lonesome road not in an unmanful manner at all. Had not his nerves been
damaged ...
... a downy beard or the sprouting tokens of mature youth, but by having in a
feeble, soft, unmanful, and undetermined mind, a perfect intellect, a consummate
prudence, a godlike disposition, an unprejudiced science, and an unalterable
habit.
Plutarch, William Watson Goodwin, 1871
... as he openly avowed, for her fortune alone, he soon dissipated this, the solitary
charm she possessed for him , and was then unmanful enough to taunt her with
the inconveniences of that penury which his own extravagance had occasioned.
George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, 1833
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A Vindication of Three of Our Blessed Saviour's Miracles: ...
The ancients, who by many are thought beft to have underftood human nature,
did not think tears unmanful, or difgraceful to a man of true fortitude ; as might be
amply fhewn, if needful. For my own part, I never loved ftoical principles or ...
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The Poetical Works of George MacDonald (Volumes I and II)
When at Philippi, he who would have freed Great Rome from tyrants, for the
season brief That lay 'twixt him and battle, sought relief From painful thoughts, he
in a book did read, That so the death of Portia might not breed Unmanful thoughts
, ...
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The works of Nathaniel Lardner, D.D.: with a life by Dr. Kippis
The ancients, who by many are thought best to have understood human nature,
did not think tears unmanful, or disgraceful to a man of true fortitude; as might be
amply ' See Dr. Harris's Remarks on the Case of Lazarus, p. 75. shown, if needful
...
Nathaniel Lardner, Andrew Kippis, 1827
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The Works of Nathaniel Lardner
The ancients, who by many are thought best to have understood human nature,
did not think tears unmanful, or disgraceful to a man of true fortitude"; as might be
amply a See Dr. Harris's Remarks on the Case of Lazarus, p. 75. . shown, if ...
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Letters and journals of lord Byron
... and was then unmanful enough to taunt her with the inconveniences of that
penury which his own extravagance had occasioned. When not quite five years
old, young Byron was sent to a day-school at Aherdeen, taught hy Mr. Bowers, t
and ...
George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.), Thomas Moore, 1831
5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNMANFUL»
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Give pause a chance, plead bowlers
... saw that your hair was slightly out of place or one of the points of your moustache was drooping just a bit unmanfully as you were running up to the crease. «ESPNcricinfo.com, Oct 14»
Solving Styles: Reverse Engineering Archie Moore and the Lock …
By the 1880s, glove boxing and the new Queensbury Rules that governed it put an end to such "unmanful" strikes as the Chopper, prohibiting boxers from ... «Bloody Elbow, Jun 14»
Yossarian lives
Here, narrator Bob Slocum tussles unmanfully with his long-suffering wife, unhappy daughter and a troubled son he identifies as “my boy” in order to distinguish ... «Financial Times, Oct 11»
Farewell Steptoe, the dog who picked horses
The eldest of our dogs died on Thursday. I wouldn't ordinarily mention so personal a fact, or that the tears stream unmanfully down my cheeks as I type it. «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 10»
Extended family feats at a Hungarian feast
Egged on by the others, I had a crack at it and was rubbish, sliding unmanfully all over the back of the horse and almost down the side. If only I'd tried the horse ... «The Australian, Jan 10»
