Virile in example sentence
The ale-drinking, the rude good-fellowship, the heartiness, the laughter at discomforts, the craving to see the fight--all these may be set down as vulgar and trivial by those to whom they are distasteful; but to me, listening to the far-off and uncertain echoes of our distant past, they seem to have been the very bones upon which much that is most solid and virile in this ancient race was moulded.