He was also, for his years, an expert in most manly exercises.
I remarked on this to him, and he said that when he was young he was easily exhausted and found the manly exercises a heavy burden.
He was young, well-spoken, witty, and skilled in all martial and manly exercises.
It was for both "manual labourers" and "brain toilers" and Parkes, who described rowing as "a healthy, beautiful and manly exercise", expressed his approval of the club's democratic principle regarding membership.
A frail old man could become so completely restored that he could resume "all manly exercises.
That paper apparently received the same letter printed in The Advocate and summed it up in one paragraph, starting with "We have received a communication in favor of the manly exercise of base ball."
He played Thisbe, one of Cinderella's half-sisters who, in this version, were "Girton College girls who can jabber Greek and Latin, read French, play golf, and indulge in manly exercises.
A fellow student described him then as "open-handed, open-hearted and generous to a fault and first in every manly exercise."
The defendants, the members of the hunt, claimed the right of pursuit of their game over every man's enclosure . . . unless the law allowed them to do so, it would wholly destroy the manly exercise of the chase.
This interested Carl, who excelled in all manly exercises.