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Definition of Manlily
1. manly [adv] - See also: manly
Lexicographical Neighbors of Manlily
Literary usage of Manlily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Literature from Widsith to the Death of Chaucer: A Source Book by Allen Rogers Benham (1916)
"... But the strong tower full manfully they held, Thai thai the tour held manlily
Till that bold knight, Richard of Normandy, ..."
2. The History of the Anglo-Saxons from the Earliest Period to the Norman Conquest by Sharon Turner (1841)
"Never on the fatal far-famed conflict would they shrink from the slaughter.1 Hrothgar
gives these presents to Beowulf, and exhorts him "to use them manlily. ..."