| The semi-final victory was vindication for many of the US players, who defended manfully against the world's top-ranked team. |
| However, Rice's trademark grin soon returned when Clough came back struggling manfully with 30 Orange Maid ice lollies. |
| He toiled manfully with the task, bravely maintaining that the national picture was not as grim as the newspapers would have us believe. |
| Dad would refuse to speak to us all for a week as he manfully kept his secret hypochondriacal worries to himself. |
| Where they strove manfully for their effects, he wrote poems whose cadence leads one to believe that they had just floated out. |
| 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. |
