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poor and unmanly lover in the eyes
His temper was ruffled, and his mind in great irritation against his late companion: he felt angrily that he must have appeared a poltroon and a poor and unmanly lover in the eyes of the churchman.
— from A House-Party, Don Gesualdo, and A Rainy June by Ouida

prison authorities until late in the evening
There was another list with the names of the prisoners to be executed on the following day, and this, Harry learned, was not sent in to the prison authorities until late in the evening, so that even they were ignorant until the last moment which of the prisoners were to be called for by the tumbrils next morning.
— from In the Reign of Terror: The Adventures of a Westminster Boy by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

poor and unmanly lover in the eyes
His temper was ruffled, and his mind in great irritation against his late companion; he felt angrily that he must have appeared a poltroon, and a poor and unmanly lover in the eyes of the churchman.
— from A Rainy June, and Other Stories by Ouida

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