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Meanings of unmanly weakness in English

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Usage of unmanly weakness in English
1
To have replied without an exposure of unmanly weakness would have been impossible.
The Good Time Coming
2
Mr. Parsons tried to wean Nicky from what he pretended to regard as his unmanly weakness.
The Tree of Heaven
3
To your professional eyes I show unmanly weakness.
Danger; Or, Wounded in the House of a Friend
4
I have tried to conquer' this unmanly weakness'.
McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader
5
What do you mean by such unmanly weakness?
The Candidate: A Political Romance
6
But if you ask me if he discovered any unmanly weakness at this awful moment- Ianswernone.
The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 / An Historical Novel
7
I perceived that he was winking rapidly, as though an unmanly weakness was getting possession of him.
Down the River; Or, Buck Bradford and His Tyrants
8
To be dejected is natural; but to be overcome by dejection is madness, and folly, and unmanly weakness.
The World's Great Sermons, Volume 01: Basil to Calvin
9
Why, then, yield to unmanly weakness?
The Good Time Coming
10
Why, then, should Coppy be guilty of the unmanly weakness of kissing-vehementlykissing- a'biggirl,' Miss Allardyce to wit?
The Kipling Reader / Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kiplin...
11
The misgiving that this tale caused Joel Rae he put down to unmanly weakness-andto an unfamiliarity with military affairs.
The Lions of the Lord: A Tale of the Old West
12
To risk failure by a premature attack, for want of patience to endure a temporary disgrace, would be unmanly weakness.
The Royal Pawn of Venice / A Romance of Cyprus
13
But they are not meant so-simply the protest of the rough spirit at being thought capable of such unmanly weakness as feeling.
A Maid of the Silver Sea
14
He had to endure not only the pain of a repressed affection, but also a galling and humiliating sense of unmanly weakness.
Without a Home
15
It would be pitiful to fail merely on account of this idiotic lassitude, this unmanly weakness, this boyish impatience and desire for play.
The Blazed Trail
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I'm afraid I gave way to a quite unmanly weakness as I threw myself upon the hard ground and thought of my miserable fate.
Greener Than You Think
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Unmanly weakness across language varieties
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