Meanings of strove manfully in English

Now, this Geoffroy saw, and rushing in strove manfully to stay the flight.

And Jean smiled again at the discomfiture which Mr. Marcus Stepney strove manfully to hide.

He strove manfully to throw off the softer mood.

In spite of himself his heavy eyelids drooped, and although he strove manfully against it, sleep took him.

I strove manfully to make the foul thing respectable, but the Augean stables proved too much for my pitchfork.

Believing it to be her exclusive property, therefore, she, inspired by tender cunning, strove manfully to keep it so.

There was no ring of real resentment in his tones, though he strove manfully to simulate offended and indignant innocence.

Hanlon's stomach curled up so tightly it hurt, but he strove manfully not to let his feelings show in his face.

Her husband strove manfully to repress his emotion; and, after an effort or two, addressed Monsieur De Vlierbeck in a manly way:-

Next, the world was dealing harshly with Sergius; and though he strove manfully to hide the fact, she saw he was suffering.

He waited very long and very patiently, for Uncle Nathan considered patience a cardinal virtue, and strove manfully against every feeling of uneasiness.

Nature provided him with the second, and, to say the truth, he strove manfully himself to keep up the other two requisites in his creed.

On the way, he strove manfully to respond to the efforts we were making to draw him into conversation and rouse him from his prostration.

'Rather than that, I'd go on a sprained ankle,' said Jacopo, and he strove manfully to conquer pain; limping and exclaiming, 'Oh, my little village!