Massingbred walked to the window to hide the emotion these tidings produced; for, with all his self-command, the suddenness of the intelligence had unmanned him, and a cold and sickly feeling came over him.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
These things, and this way up to battle, might have shaken the nerves of most men, might even have unmanned them and weakened them by the fainting sickness of fear.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
The wish was there, but who knows when he cherished it, whether he was not so rent by torment, so quite unmanned as to harbor a thought that sprang therefrom?
"The Three Heron's Feathers"
Hermann Sudermann