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Manhood in sentence

52 examples of Manhood in a sentence

“It’s like a manhood thing for him.”
Pelosi said, “As if manhood could ever be associated with him.”
'Will such delicious moments,' he was wondering, 'last for ever?'His thoughts were absorbed in the difficulty of adopting a profession, he was deploring this great and distressing problem which puts an end to boyhood and spoils the opening years of manhood when one has no money.
By accustoming ourselves to regard even the people as erring beings, and by using the restraints that wisdom has adduced from experience, there is much reason to hope that the same Providence which has so well aided us in our infancy, may continue to smile on our manhood.
With his fair hair devoid of lustre, his sparse beard, his face covered with red blotches, he resembled a sickly, spoilt child arrived at manhood.
The time that had strengthened the child's slight frame and knit his weak limbs into the strength of manhood had bowed his mother's form, and enfeebled her steps; but the arm that should have supported her was no longer locked in hers; the face that should have cheered her, no more looked upon her own.
If I take up my pen to tell you about this, you must not look for any story at my hands, for I was only in my earliest manhood when these things befell; and although I saw something of the stories of other lives, I could scarce claim one of my own.
I put my arms about her to console her, but she wept so that, for all my seventeen years and pride of manhood, it set me weeping also, and with such a hiccoughing noise, since I had not a woman's knack of quiet tears, that it finally turned her own grief to laughter.
It may have been a humble object-lesson, but I give you my word that many a time in my life I have braced myself to a hard task by the remembrance of that morning upon Crawley Downs, asking myself if my manhood were so weak that I would not do for my country, or for those whom I loved, as much as these two would endure for a paltry stake and for their own credit amongst their fellows.
Somehow, in spite of his prowess, his old school name of "Boy" had clung very naturally to him, until that instant when I saw him standing in his self-contained and magnificent manhood in the doorway of the ancient house.
"The defender of the absent has a right to favourable reception from all who value truth, and honour manhood."
Nevertheless, thou art my guest, and I will not put thy manhood to the proof without thine own free will.
Since that day I have separated myself from life and its ties--My manhood must know no domestic home--must be soothed by no affectionate wife--My age must know no kindly hearth--My grave must be solitary, and no offspring must outlive me, to bear the ancient name of Bois-Guilbert.
"What a man of mould may," answered Athelstane, "providing it be what a man of manhood ought.--Dismiss
"To the walls!" answered the Templar;and they both ascended the battlements to do all that skill could dictate, and manhood accomplish, in defence of the place.
He was gay, good-humoured, and fond of manhood in every rank of life.
Then remorse began and regret and grief, sometimes stifled, sometimes emerging in triumph, until his wedding day on which the cry of the bohemian in the fir wood reminded him dramatically of his young manhood's first oath.
"After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found what I can truly love--I have found you.
Since he had grown to manhood they no longer said in so many words:"Look at Jean and follow his example," but every time he heard them say"Jean did this--Jean does that," he understood their meaning and thehint the words conveyed.
At times again I am tormented with the thought, for I fear that my manhood and energy are taken from me; that, perhaps, I am useless, not only for counsel, for judgment, for feasts, but for war even.
And hadst thou, at manhood's years, married a woman of thy love, thy wish would be to see her faithful till death.
From childhood he had lived in impassable forests, amid continual hunts, in which, thanks to his superhuman strength, he was famous among the Lygians even before he had grown to manhood.
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