Mandricardo, king of Tartary, son of Agrican. Mandricardo wore Hector’s cuirass, married Derălis, and was slain by Roge´ro in single combat.—Bojardo, Orlando Innamorato (1495); Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (1516).
Mandriccardo, a knight whose adventures are recorded by Barahona (Mandriccardo, etc., i. 70, 71).
Mandel (Mrs.), salaried society “coach” of the Dryfoos family after their removal to New York.—W.D. Howells, A Hazard of New Fortunes (1889).
Manduce (2 syl.), the idol Gluttony, venerated by the Grastrol´aters, a people whose god was their belly.
Maiiette (Dr.), of Beauvais. He had been imprisoned eighteen years, and had gradually lost his memory. After his release he somewhat recovered it, but any train of thought connected with his prison life produced a relapse. While in prison, the doctor made shoes, and, whenever the relapse occurred, his desire for cobbling returned.
Lucie Manette, the loving, golden-haired, blue-eyed daughter of Dr. Manette. She marries Charles Darnay.
Lucie Manette had a forehead with the singular capacity of lifting and knitting itself into an expression that was not quite one of perplexity, or wonder, or alarm, or merely of bright, fixed attention, though it included all the four expressions.—C. Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, i. 4 (1859).
Maney or Manny (Sir Walter), a native of Belgium, who came to England as page to Philippa, queen of Edward III. When he first began his career of arms, he and some young companions of his own age put a black patch over their left eye, and vowed never to remove it till they had performed some memorable act in the French wars (died 1372).
With whom our Maney here deservedly doth stand,
Which first inventor was of that courageous band