manhood's

Periclymenus, son of the ocean-god, stayed his wild career, heaving on his head a waggon-load of stone, even the coping torn from the battlements; and it shattered his head with the hair and crashed through the sutures of the skull, dabbling with blood his cheek just showing manhood's flush; and never shall he go back alive to his fair archer-mother, the maid of

The Phoenissae 2008

Periclymenus, son of the ocean-god, stayed his wild career, heaving on his head a waggon-load of stone, even the coping torn from the battlements; and it shattered his head with the hair and crashed through the sutures of the skull, dabbling with blood his cheek just showing manhood's flush; and never shall he go back alive to his fair archer-mother, the maid of

The Phoenissae 2008

We are stronger, and are better, under manhood's sterner reign: Still we feel that something sweet Followed youth, with windchimeinc, and will never come again.

Balkinization 2003

Those who enter here henceforward will be of manhood's years, enter of their own will, bear their own burdens.

The Rose Rent Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1986

My faithful, careful dragoman, who in manhood's prime, yet not many months before his death, guided me in safety, not only during my trying "Three Days in Gilead," but also throughout an extended tour otherwhere in his native land -- the Holy Land of my faith.

My Three Days in Gilead Elmer Ulysses Hoenshel

To-ke-ah's strength maturing into the size and vigor of his manhood's oak.

The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various

-- Dying for a principle seems to me a higher degree of virtue than scolding for it; and, the history of heathen races is full of instances where men have laid down their lives for the love of their kind, of their country, of truth, nay, even for simple manhood's sake, or to show their obedience or fidelity.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 Various

Distinguished still the warrior brave in manhood's lofty power.

The Poetical Works of Mrs. Leprohon

So it came about that even before he reached manhood's estate, Caleb

The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees Mary Caroline Crawford

What blight and ruin met his anguished eyes, whose lips may tell -- what brilliant, broken plans, what baffled, high ambitions, what sundering of strong, warm, manhood's friendships, what bitter rending of sweet household ties!

Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail Harry A. Lewis