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Manhood's might is too weak to win alone in the battle against sin.
Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures George W. Bain
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Manhood's conviction and effrontery reeked from his mouth like foul breath and Kazem, who already wanted to wreak havoc on his impudence, flipped him over with the elastic of his underwear like
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Manhood's reckless passion was beating in heart and brain.
The Heart of Unaga Ridgwell Cullum 1905
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Manhood's conquest of man to heaven's respect appeals.
The Book of American Negro Poetry James Weldon Johnson 1904
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The Cupid's bow had faded forever from his lip and childhood's innocence from his eye; he has crossed life's Rubicon, has passed at one stride from the Vale of Youth with its trifles and its idle tears, its ignorance of sex and stainless love, to Manhood's rugged mountains, where blazes Ambition's baleful star and the fires of passion ever beat, fiercer than those that sweep Gehenna's sulphurous hills.
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Parenthetically be it said that Schiller and "Manhood's dignity" forbade me to make this composition any pleasanter.
Letters Liszt, Franz 1893
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"Menschheits-Wurde," [Manhood's dignity] as Schiller says.
Letters Liszt, Franz 1893
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Manhood's strong hopes and purpose, the heart's wealth,
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Note the effect, also, in the phrase 'Manhood's morn,' and the last line is poetical,
A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett William Henry Venable 1878
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Manhood's ambition was so different from the lukewarm endeavors of the boy.
A Little Girl in Old Boston Amanda Minnie Douglas 1873
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