Example Sentences

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Breakfast would at least alleviate this sinking feeling which was unmanning him.

From A Damsel in Distress by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

The sight of them was unmanning the Barbarians; they were an embarrassment and a peril.

From Salammbo by Flaubert, Gustave

It was so soothing at the same time that it was unmanning, as now he could see, making of him a child again.

From The Financier, a novel by Dreiser, Theodore

He had hoped that Colin would answer his father's summons, because he believed now that the life he was leading was unmanning him.

From Scottish sketches by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston