What is "manhood"

Usage examples of "manhood".

Two additional males had arrived and stood nearby with Thorntis, avidly engrossed in the action at their feet, manhood grandly erect.

It may be added that, as being himself a blunt and downright Englishman, unaccustomed to conceal the slightest movement either of love or of dislike, he accounted the fair-spoken courtesy which the Scots had learned, either from imitation of their frequent allies, the French, or which might have arisen from their own proud and reserved character, as a false and astucious mark of the most dangerous designs against their neighbours, over whom he believed, with genuine English confidence, they could, by fair manhood, never obtain any advantage.

Reichstag, whose members were elected by universal manhood suffrage, the German Empire was in reality a militarist autocracy ruled by the King of Prussia, who was also Emperor.

Growing to manhood in the shadow of his brothers, he had followed Balon dutifully in everything he did.

Ay, and he thinks to carry it away with his manhood still where he comes: he brags he will give me the bastinado, as I hear.

As he watched, two bedraggled specimens of local manhood staggered across the grey floor from the left doorway.

He spent half an hour telling us myths about how his people used to live in huts called manyattas, and how their rite of passage to manhood was to kill a lion with a spear.

Lord of Tong hath found him manhood and therewith a wisdom beyond most and singeth such love as methought only angels knew and maids might vision in their dreams.

I should have thought shame upon my manhood, as well as my monkhood, if I had held back my hand from her.

Self-control is manhood and I felt toward Rait as I would toward a corpse of some one who had died of leprosy.

He was drawn along with her passion and as her vaginal muscles clamped and tugged on his manhood, he began reaming her with unbounded ardour.

Jacobites, not less than the Catholics, were scandalized by his declaration, that the body of Christ was incorruptible, and that his manhood was never subject to any wants and infirmities, the inheritance of our mortal flesh.

He had given good proof of his manhood in the past by standing five-and-twenty years scapegoat for Ben Aboo between him and his people, making him rich by his extortions, keeping him safe in his seat, and thereby saving him from the wooden jellab which Abd er-Rahman, the Sultan, kept for Kaids that could not pay.

Captains Selfdenial and Experience were both born and reared to their full manhood in that besieged city.

The thought that he might have seminally inundated his own daughters stiffened his manhood again.