The decision made, he turned and swaggered out of the door, idle hands swinging and dangling as he strode manfully toward the stairwell. |
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Dad would refuse to speak to us all for a week as he manfully kept his secret hypochondriacal worries to himself. |
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However, Rice's trademark grin soon returned when Clough came back struggling manfully with 30 Orange Maid ice lollies. |
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He toiled manfully with the task, bravely maintaining that the national picture was not as grim as the newspapers would have us believe. |
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And so, eventually arriving at the counter, I manfully demanded a box of Durex. |
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Where they strove manfully for their effects, he wrote poems whose cadence leads one to believe that they had just floated out. |
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The young gentleman listens manfully to my abortive attempts to demonstrate my interest with a light smile, while I slowly turn an inelegant purple. |
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The rest of the crew had set off from San Francisco around the same time as us but were manfully doing without sleep and so were around 10 hours ahead of us. |
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As the match wound down, the Germans manfully held their rearguard together, but only just. |
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The semi-final victory was vindication for many of the US players, who defended manfully against the world's top-ranked team. |
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England coped manfully without him, but they will rue his absence if Australia continue to fight hard today and finally top 400 for the first time in the series. |
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You cannot win without scoring, and aside from Rooney, who was trying so manfully to be all things to England's attack, nobody but Owen was going to finish the job. |
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He manfully fielded tough questions about precisely how brilliant his leadership was and the personal toll of improving the lives of every living creature in his kingdom. |
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For centuries, artists struggled manfully with ways of codifying the idea of reported speech in graphic form. |
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Tyson has always maintained that, while Douglas boxed manfully in Tokyo, his victory was essentially a fluke. |
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And with that he pulled his flat cap firmly down over his eyes, gave Nicole a sharp tug on her choke chain and strode off manfully back towards Hollywood. |
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It was freezingly cold, and this job of seeing off a distinguished stranger was not one to be envied, but Lieutenant Dubosc performed his part manfully. |
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While Norman Mailer and Saul Bellow pound manfully on the door, Jonathan Franzen and Zadie Smith knock politely, little preparing you for the emotional ferociousness with which they plan on making themselves at home. |
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Nephew of the iconic Rigobert, he has stepped up manfully into Arsenal's midfield following a string of injuries to Arsene Wenger's Premier League side. |
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Unlike little Spacer, he never confronted his dashed hopes manfully. |
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One struggled manfully by with a dead spider five times as big as itself in its arms. |
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John Travolta's inability to cope with a name, even then, was toyed with last night, and the joke — in which he manfully, or uncomprehendingly, joined — looks set to run for many ceremonies to come. |
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The former Racing Strasbourg player, now at Ismaili, worked manfully through the match and capped it off with the decisive pass that set up Aboutrika's second goal of the afternoon. |
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A box-lobby lion or a Regent-street animal... will never bite, and, if you offer to attack him manfully, will fairly turn tail and sneak off. |
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Cisneros suffered from sorochi, but continued manfully upwards. |
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They coped manfully, however, blasting through new single Guess I Wanted More and finishing with a flourish on their alt-rock signoff song Three Weeks. |
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He is said, by contemporaries, to have borne the news manfully. |
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Glenn Ford tries manfully to help turn uncouth, unruly, inept, unkempt and dishevelled high school delinquents into couth, ruly, ept, kempt and shevelled students. |
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