Example Sentences

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“Maiden!” said he, with emotion, “speak not of my poor mother, or you will unman me, and I would wish to die as becomes my father’s son.”

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2 Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative by Wilson, John Mackay

I do not dare to think of it or it will unman me.

From The Traitors by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)

Neither of these, Alcippus; It will unman you, make you too despis'd; And those that now admire will pity you.

From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III by Summers, Montague

Away; think no more of me; nay! no tear, dear lady, or you will unman me.

From The Rise of Iskander by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

If you do not, it will unman you.

From A Ride Across Palestine by Trollope, Anthony