The dog was trained to run errands for his master and to behave in a manlike manner. From LearnThat.org.
Adjective : manlike fortitude. From Dictionary.com.
Ikeega was overcome with joy, but he received her demonstrations in manlike fashion, saying: Come, Ikeega, let us eat. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Keesh] Reference
But the object on the platform had looked so manlike. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Hole]
Two were as manlike as the space rovers of my own day. From Wordnik.com. [The Zero Stone]
She had never seemed so little manlike, so wholly womanly. From Wordnik.com. [Riders of the Silences] Reference
So you corroborate everything you get from a manlike that. From Wordnik.com. [Divorcing the Dictator: America's Bungled Affairs with Noriega] Reference
Three grotesque manlike figures charged in, waving crude clubs. From Wordnik.com. [Cube Route]
Then it grew to a fantastic, horrible shape, manlike but winged. From Wordnik.com. [Conan the Avenger]
The cheeks of a man are the seat of comeliness and manlike courage. From Wordnik.com. [Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost] Reference
For she is far-sighted beyond the wont of folk who be more manlike. From Wordnik.com. [The Water of the Wondrous Isles] Reference
No! But something sufficiently manlike to chill the three downtrail. From Wordnik.com. [The Defiant Agents] Reference
Lying down near the fire, I, manlike, impatiently waited for supper. From Wordnik.com. [Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America] Reference
The Merseian threw up his hands in quite a manlike gesture of horror. From Wordnik.com. [Ensign Flandry]
The clerk, manlike, was affected by the evidence of beauty in distress. From Wordnik.com. [Jennie Gerhardt] Reference
They remembered none of their manlike lives, and wanted only to chomp men. From Wordnik.com. [Demons Don't Dream]
They encountered a figure which looked less and less manlike the closer it got. From Wordnik.com. [The Color of Her Panties]
Trace a dragon back through similar species, and it becomes increasingly manlike. From Wordnik.com. [A Spell For Chameleon]
“The chances against anything manlike on Mars are a million to one,” he said. From Wordnik.com. [The War of the Worlds] Reference
There were a few flaking, vaguely manlike shapes that were disintegrating vampires. From Wordnik.com. [All Together Dead]
Chainer pointed to the huge, bald, manlike creature standing in the center of the pit. From Wordnik.com. [Chainer's Torment]
He, too, was busy reading in the same fashion, but, manlike, was slower in his deductions. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
He looked at the stranger, a very well dressed gentlemanly man -- too manlike for a tailor. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843] Reference
It was manlike, riding on an oddly humped animal which galloped more rapidly than any horse. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortress of the Pearl]
Rut the face was manlike, in a heavyboned fashion, and the physiology was essentially mammalian. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Book of Stormgate]
Soon he saw Dad-surrounded by ugly little manlike creatures with big heads and big feet: goblins. From Wordnik.com. [Yon Ill Wind]
Instead, manlike, he proceeded, quite unconsciously, to say the one thing that could hurt her most. From Wordnik.com. [Their Mariposa Legend; a romance of Santa Catalina] Reference
When I was, long ago, of your manlike cousin Feng's age, I had far more wits about me than she has!. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
The chimpanzee of intertropical Africa brings us to a still less monkey-like and more manlike stage. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope] Reference
From the fame and memory of him that begot me I have learned both shamefastness and manlike behaviour. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
In the field, Knox confesses, 'her courage increased manlike so much, that she was ever with the foremost.'. From Wordnik.com. [John Knox] Reference
A penguin, attracted by their cries, waddled solemnly over to them and regarded them with manlike curiosity. From Wordnik.com. [Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930] Reference
With manlike exactness she gave him to understand that friendship with him grown purely out of liking would be. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius] Reference
A brilliant appearance, stately-tall and manlike, they had; wonderful garments from far-away countries upon them. From Wordnik.com. [The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge] Reference
But, manlike, he kept his prejudice to himself, admitting reluctantly that Atwell seemed to know what he was about. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore] Reference
Venerable, too, is the rugged face, all weather-tanned, besoiled, with its rude intelligence; for it is the face of a Man living manlike. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
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