What did he want of her, he asked himself; what was this mysterious and unmanning sense, that made him conscious of every movement and every word of the girl?
"Watersprings"
Arthur Christopher Benson
The sight of them was unmanning the Barbarians; they were an embarrassment and a peril.
"Salammbo"
Gustave Flaubert
The military glory wherewith Napoleon fed and flattered the French nation for fifteen years, and the astonishing intellectual and animal vigor of the conqueror's mind, dazzle even M. Sainte-Beuve, so that he does not perceive the gaping chasms in Napoleon's moral nature, and the consequent one-sidedness of his intellectual action, nor the unmanning effects of his despotism.
"Essays Æsthetical"
George Calvert