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With old Romans, I conjecture, it was the terror not of Pluto, for whom probably they cared little, but of doing unworthily, doing unvirtuously, which was their word for unmanfully.

From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Carlyle, Thomas

When he understood his anxiety it vexed him, and he rebuked himself for taking things unmanfully hard.

From Roderick Hudson by James, Henry

He could not follow the cousins, demand a hearing and assert unmanfully that he didn’t love the one who said he did, but did love her who now believed that he did not.

From Lonesome Town by Dorrance, Ethel