"Manfully" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... strange that Bouldon should have so easily got into the castle; but in his case he had a friend to help him, while in the case of the besiegers everybody was opposed to them. So strong was the castle, and so manfully was it defended, that it appeared as if it would effectually hold out to the end ...
— Ernest Bracebridge - School Days • William H. G. Kingston
... I are to be married soon after I return from New York. If her mother consents, well and good; if she refuses, we will bear up manfully under her displeasure and ignore it. I have often thought of your remark about Mrs. Bays ...
— A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties • Charles Major
... son was a tearful one, though Ralph, choking down the big lump in his throat, tried manfully to cheer his mother ...
— The Boy Scouts of the Geological Survey • Robert Shaler
... from kyng Richarde, his [Sidenote: Bosworthe[.]] power more and more weakened. By a village called Bos- worthe, in a greate plaine, mete for twoo battailes: by Lei- cester this field was pitched, wherin king Richard manfully fightyng hande to hande, with the Erle of Richmonde, was [Sidenote: Kyng Ri- chard killed in Bosworth fielde.] slaine, his bodie caried shamefullie, to the toune of Leicester naked, without honor, as he deserued, ...
— A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike • Richard Rainolde
... great battle for political and intellectual freedom the young Laurier played his part manfully. He boldly joined L'Institut Canadien, though it lay under the shadow of Bishop Bourget's minatory pastoral; and became an active member and officer. He was one of a committee which tried unavailingly ...
— Laurier: A Study in Canadian Politics • J. W. Dafoe
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