manhood

• I remember standing at the edge of my bean field and staring at the dry and cracked ground, the yellowing stalks, and feeling as if I was shrinking until my manhood was as useless and shriveled as the bean stalks. —  F ;SF - vol 102 issue 04 - April 2002
• But it is a freelancer's manhood -- manhood cut loose from its social dimension and the honor culture that goes with it and, therefore, something that kids are free to make up as they go along. —  Lead and Gold
• Bush also had that daddy thing where he had to show his manhood was as good as his pop's. —  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
• A council on men and boys would address the crisis in American manhood that results in the scourge of infidelity, divorce, lack of commitment and fatherhood with multiple partners. —  Dr. Helen
• How shall I ever atone for a manhood wasted on a dream, and for thoughts that must have made the angels of Heaven veil their faces in wonder and pity You must have a story to tell," he now said, turning toward me, with the first look of natural human curiosity which I had seen in his face since I came Yes," said I, "I have; but it will not serve to lessen your horror; it will only add to it Nothing can add to it," was his low reply. —  The Forsaken Inn A Novel

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