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Meanings of more virile in English

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Usage of more virile in English
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The least of Helena's letters was more virile and objective than this.
The Californians
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Once more its frame seemed to grow more virile and natural.
The Black Box
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The church has not yet learned to appeal to the more virile qualities.
Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene
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Durville was becoming almost ventriloqual in order to seem more solemn and more virile:
A Mummer's Tale
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Men with extra nipples, it was once believed, were more virile than their double-nippled brethren.
BBC
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The former device of Providence in such a case was extermination by some more virile stock.
A Desert Drama: Being The Tragedy Of The "Korosko"
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He imagined her to have larger eyes, and something a little more virile in her physiognomy.
Memoirs of Madame la Marquise de Montespan — Volume 6
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Flora was not characterized by Sylvia's fastidious refinement; she was more virile and yet more reposeful.
Ranching for Sylvia
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Here my critics have found fault with me for not being more strenuous, more virile, more energetic.
At Large
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Did the oul' buck ask for a prescription for the small blue pill that makes men more virile?
Independent.ie
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As that was poetically symbolic, this is a massive direct work in a more virile and vigorous manner.
The Sculpture and Mural Decorations of the Exposition / A Pictor...
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The short stories increase one's admiration for the artist, but the full, more virile message conies from the Novels.
Masters of the English Novel: A Study of Principles and Personal...
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He was younger, more virile.
Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo
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Besides, Kirk is more virile and "manly."
Geektastic
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He loses a certain childishness which had hitherto clung to him, and he expresses himself with a more virile sobriety.
Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France
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The year of Longfellow's birth witnessed that of another American poet, more virile, but of a narrower appeal-JohnGreenleaf Whittier.
American Men of Mind
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