| 单词 | womanliness |
| 例句 | Carter was determined to express their power, womanliness, history and spirit through their costumes. The vision behind ‘Black Panther’s’ stunning look: ‘Feminine, masculine, beautiful and strong.’ 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z In “Divertimento No. 15” the Miami women — scintillatingly musical — perfectly show how Balanchine combined womanliness with youthfulness; they’re both fresh, like buds, and decisive. Dance Review: Miami City Ballet in Liam Scarlett Work at Kravis Center 2013-01-28T23:05:18Z After decades of defining ideal womanliness based on humility and positivity, it’s no wonder we’re thrown off by one who stands up and says, I’m angry, I was wronged, and I deserve to be here. Perspective | The ‘new’ Miss America and the trap of ladylike expectations 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z But he conveys Lola’s imprisoned womanliness with aching delicacy, awkwardly drawing in his body to try to negate his masculine form. | 'Southern Comfort': ?Southern Comfort? at CAP21 Black Box Theater - Review 2011-10-12T22:17:17Z To me, Elizabeth Taylor's importance as an actress was that she represented a kind of womanliness that is now completely impossible to find on the U.S. or U.K. screen. Paglia on Taylor: "A luscious, opulent, ripe fruit!" 2011-03-24T02:58:00Z “Like Garbo, Hara came to represent an ideal of womanliness, nobility and generosity,” David Thomson wrote in The New Biographical Dictionary of Film. Setsuko Hara, Japanese Star of Films by Ozu and Kurosawa, Is Dead at 95 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z Her womanliness is a matter of personal conviction. Perspective | Serena Williams insists audiences see her, not just her stats 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z The strongest element of “Heartland,” then, is its unabashed womanliness. A vital new book about America's divide: 'Heartland' by Sarah Smarsh - Los Angeles Times 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z Manning is not so insistent that her femininity, her womanliness, is consistent with such narrow standards. Chelsea Manning doesn’t look glamorous in Vogue. And that’s great. 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z We’re back to the ancient conundrum: a woman can’t be that smart and commanding, so either her womanliness or her smartness must be counterfeit. End this misogynistic horror show. Put Hillary Clinton in the White House | Barbara Kingsolver 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z I’ve witnessed feminists reject notions of femininity because the word is often associated with “womanliness”; being dainty, sensitive, weak, dependent, submissive. Twenty Millennials on Twenty Years 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z I loved that, and so did the Burmese women who seemed to instinctively relate to my natural womanliness. Hard Choices by Hillary Rodham Clinton – digested read 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z There has been considerable discussion respecting the question of the Empress's womanliness, and the reverse. Ladies on Horseback Learning, Park-Riding, and Hunting, with Hints upon Costume, and Numerous Anecdotes 2012-04-23T02:00:28.843Z It is a sign of her utter womanliness that envy for the common affections of life was never quite crushed in her heart. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z No; it is more than that, I think—it is your goodness, your gentleness, your kindness, your womanliness. Vistas of New York 2012-04-14T02:00:25.810Z He thought of her courage and her pride; and then of the womanliness that, responding to the first touch of gentleness on his side, had wept for his child. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z My serene contralto answered, strangely to my anticipations, and with the superior womanliness I have ascribed to her, "Is it not glorious?" Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 2012-02-23T03:00:42.347Z She had a deep womanliness which made it impossible for her to accept a manner of life which was in contradiction to her intellectual convictions. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z Goodness, purity, love, capacity to lead as well as help, true strength, and true womanliness met in the expression of her countenance. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z There had come a gravity into her manner, and a womanliness into her face, in a degree more than natural at her years. The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z She thinks of it still, I imagine, to condone as she does, I am sure, with an adorable womanliness, what in my conduct she no longer feels able to countenance. A Woman of Genius 2012-01-18T03:00:09.517Z I talked to her as if she were some male friend of mine, only appealing to her womanliness with all the soft sadness I could press into the tones of my voice. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z Marriage had added to her beauty by giving an additional fulness and womanliness to her figure, and changing her springtide prettiness into a more developed loveliness. The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 2011-12-25T03:00:12.817Z I resolved to have the whole story investigated; and it occurred to me that it would be a good test of my sister's womanliness to let her deal with the case. By Right of Sword 2011-12-22T03:00:24.563Z Recalled to him and to her womanliness, "Oh, your coat!" she exclaimed. The Happy Warrior 2011-12-18T03:00:18.863Z PERSIS, forgetting that he was her enemy, leaped to his aid with instinctive womanliness. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z I speak of them all as children, for with all their womanliness and decision of manner, the sisters were in some respects quite as childlike as were little Hubert and Charlie. Frederica and her Guardians The Perils of Orphanhood 2011-12-05T03:00:50.157Z He found himself looking at her in her unfamiliar dress, surprised, as Bobby had been, by the womanliness he realised for the first time. Imprudence 2011-12-01T03:00:19.303Z Woman is at her best when the man in her is sheathed within her native womanliness. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z Misfortune and all the terrors of the Revolution only served to bring into more striking relief the vigor of a character already pronounced in its strength and womanliness. Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence 2011-11-11T03:00:25.690Z He could never cease to marvel that one of her education, position and tender womanliness should take such pains and have such pleasure in helping, entertaining and serving such as he. Steve P. Holcombe, the Converted Gambler His Life and Work 2011-11-01T02:00:21.043Z What other love-letters equal the intensity, the tenderness, the womanliness of these final appeals for the broken love? Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature 2011-10-29T02:00:13.050Z Miss McIntosh seems a woman of strong creative powers, with a delicacy of feeling and a fine touch of womanliness, united to a certain delicate perception of character. Authors and Writers Associated with Morristown With a Chapter on Historic Morristown 2011-10-25T02:00:25.713Z I had known the depths of her womanliness that other night; soon I was to learn the shallows of her femininity. The Debit Account 2011-09-21T02:00:33.753Z I hope he is prepared to match his ideal’s womanliness with a corresponding manliness. Coelebs The Love Story of a Bachelor 2011-08-31T02:01:28.960Z In Mrs. Wyndham the expressive mouth only added the final touch of womanliness to a beautiful face. A Life For a Love A Novel 2011-08-18T02:00:24.323Z Harriet Martineau did have this precious experience; and her womanliness of nature remained fresh and true and sweet to the end of her days because of it. Harriet Martineau 2011-08-05T02:00:51.493Z Now first I know what Dr. M�llner meant by true womanliness. Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z What about the quality of their manliness or womanliness? The Whole Armour of God 2011-07-12T02:00:30.060Z Though he did not approve of women in a lumber camp, Betty's quiet capacity, her gentle womanliness, with her great strength of character and keenness of perception underlying it, pleased him immensely. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z He says it would unsex me—that he so admires my thorough womanliness! Jessamine A Novel 2011-06-15T02:00:24.413Z The fair womanliness which loves the beloved more ardently and intimately when it has for the first time gone over his homestead, the scenes of his childhood, his dwelling-places, unconsciously filled her strong heart. Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) 2011-06-14T02:00:26.670Z This womanliness your father took from me,--you, his child, have restored it to me. Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z What is it that belongs to a woman of a right, inalienably, as to a man probity, or a high-minded sense of honour—is it for women, womanliness and the secret rectitude of self-respect? Old Kensington 2011-05-29T02:00:09.797Z The house admired the daintiness, the womanliness, and the suggestion of the thorough-bred in this young girl. Famous Prima Donnas 2011-05-26T02:00:18.267Z Now, the luxuriant womanliness, the growth of which he marked from day to day in her physique, had not kept pace with the chastened development of her inner nature. Jessamine A Novel 2011-06-15T02:00:24.413Z There must surely belong to the manliest woman more charming womanliness than we think, since such a one gains by female finery, by which the most effeminate man would only lose. Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) 2011-06-14T02:00:26.670Z Those who knew her intimately bear touching testimony to this quality of womanliness in the personal character of Madame de Stael. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Not fashionable gowns and dainty clothing; not beauty nor grace nor wealth so much as womanliness and unselfish thought for others. Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z Moreover, I know of no excellence, no weakness, shortcoming, virtue, womanliness, manliness, in a woman which does not tend rather to enkindle than to appease jealousy. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z Is there any interest of women to be compared in vital importance to themselves, with the conservation of true womanliness? Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 2011-05-07T02:00:26.100Z Her worldly wisdom and grown-up air of womanliness were quite as hard to understand as the extreme childishness in which she sometimes indulged. Amy in Acadia A Story for Girls 2011-04-29T02:00:08.307Z No doubt the artist came to realize more of the true womanliness of George Eliot’s character, for he certainly softened the expression of those determined-looking eyes. The Lure of the Camera 2011-04-27T02:00:25.413Z Let us not forget that in true womanliness is our strength, and that the end of our being is to comfort and bless and love—never to usurp. Courtship and Marriage And the Gentle Art of Home-Making 2011-04-27T02:00:20.023Z He wondered how, in this solitude and with no one to set her the example, she could have grown up into such charming womanliness. True and Other Stories 2011-04-26T02:00:27.117Z They did not succeed; but the more Mrs. Pankhurst's apologists glorified her, the more men were determined not to endorse a party that tempted women to abandon real womanliness for mock masculinity. Anti-Suffrage Essays 2011-03-28T02:00:24.710Z To be a kindergartner is the perfect development of womanliness—a working with God at the very fountain of artistic and intellectual power and moral character. Education in The Home, The Kindergarten, and The Primary School 2011-03-27T02:00:15.947Z One cannot help feeling that he is in the presence of a distinguished person—one who has justly earned a world-wide fame—and yet one in whom the attributes of true womanliness reign supreme. The Lure of the Camera 2011-04-27T02:00:25.413Z All her movements were simple and graceful and her whole appearance conveyed the impression of exquisite refinement and the loftiest womanliness. Our Own Set A Novel 2011-03-26T02:00:12.923Z Look, Fr�ulein Euphrasia appears as an angel of peace; true womanliness was even able to redeem a thinker like Faust. Withered Leaves. Vol. I. (of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:10.707Z He was genuinely shocked to find himself feeling the repulsion which her lack of womanliness forced upon him. Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century 2011-02-13T03:00:19.953Z Perhaps it is her beauty, perhaps her exquisite womanliness, combined with the dignity that sits so sweetly on her. Airy Fairy Lilian 2011-02-11T03:00:31.760Z She knew that her persuasive power over men lay in her womanliness, and that in this there was nothing compromising. Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z She hurried to get that in, astonished at her uncharacteristic womanliness. The Rustle of Silk 2011-01-27T03:00:44.390Z Books should be sought that will inculcate a noble manliness for young men and a noble womanliness for young women, and there are such books in numbers sufficient to fill the library shelves. Organizing and Building Up the Sunday School Modern Sunday School Manuals 2011-01-25T03:00:24.873Z He was rather fastidious, however, having an artist's refined taste in the matter of beauty, and a manly man's love of the womanliness which shows itself in character, not clothes. Silver Pitchers: and Independence A Centennial Love Story 2011-01-13T03:01:02.190Z And she was his faithful wife for many years, occupying always, because of her inherent dignity and real womanliness, a position high in the estimation both of the white and the red men. Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences 2011-01-05T03:00:58.503Z No longer does he listen to her counsels, and although she has not lost any of her charm or her womanliness, her spell over him has gone for ever. Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z “Let me see,” she said, with an uncharacteristic touch of womanliness that must have been brought out by the flaming feminism of Lola. The Rustle of Silk 2011-01-27T03:00:44.390Z Look at them sitting there, and believe if you can that the one who's pouring out tea couldn't, for sheer womanliness, eat the other alive! The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z The campaign of the Socialist party is a clean campaign; it is essentially educational; an appeal to intelligence, to manliness, to womanliness, and to all things of good report. Labor and Freedom Her innate womanliness was ever uppermost, never approaching prudery, but marking unmistakably her speech, gestures and manners. The Man from Jericho Her womanliness is her charm and her success. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 This white womanliness with her indescribable charm of lavender-like holiness, her aroma of clean, methodical lives, is, it would seem after all, a purely Teutonic invention. The Wonderful Visit Moreover, the modern view of woman as the complement of man, as possessing those special virtues of womanliness, which a man lacks, is quite alien to Plato. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy It was her very womanliness that soon set me wondering who she could have been, and what had led her to shut herself away from the world. Her Royal Highness Woman Man, in his turn, will be a beneficiary of this new womanliness as he has been the ready victim of the old-womanishness. The Women of Tomorrow I never shall forget the cheery joyousness of that little family scene at your fireside, the winning modesty and womanliness of your lost Rachel, and the serenity and peace that lay about your household. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 We must face the fact that country girls need a more wholesome recreational life than most villages afford, and higher ideals of true womanliness than they often gain at home or church or school. The Challenge of the Country A Study of Country Life Opportunity He could sense her nearness, sense her womanliness. The Lost Warship Mrs. Grahame, opening it, found an exquisite little copy of the Nuremburg Madonna, the sweetest and tenderest figure of motherhood and gracious womanliness. Hildegarde's Harvest What especially charms us is that they unite with the strength and self-abnegation of the ancient Spartan matron a sweetness, a tenderness, a womanliness, which we have not been accustomed to attribute to Spartan women. Greek Women She was surrounded by an atmosphere of womanliness as delicate as an electric field, which warned off and repelled any disturbing element. The Vision of Elijah Berl She had lived too long in an atmosphere of artificiality not to have lost much of the fine American womanliness that was her birthright. The Bartlett Mystery In the little she said there displayed themselves a delicate womanliness, a clear head, and a kindly disposition. The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. Susan might have answered, "So am I," but, with a touch of returning womanliness, she hid her own suffering that she might minister to the need of the man who thus confessed his weakness. For John's Sake and Other Stories. To him it had appeared chiefly as an increased womanliness, a gentle softness of speech and mannerism very charming and attractive. A Monk of Cruta She was not cruel, had not lost an iota of her womanliness. Trusia A Princess of Krovitch Lady Barker looks at things, of course, with a woman's eye, and this womanliness is one of the charms of her books. Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century The steady flow of the twentieth-century progress has not swept away woman’s influence, nor has it crushed out her womanliness. Threads of Grey and Gold What was called "womanliness" in the forties displeased him; but he liked women to be feminine, and knew that distinguished women have ever been distinguished as women. Pot-Boilers From this relation he retained a touch of womanliness in his character, even after he had left home to enter the regiment: a shrinking from everything coarse, a reserve before all that was unlovely. Jena or Sedan? But he wasn't fierce, his voice was a tenor of agreeable timbre, and he was gentle, even to womanliness. Ivory Apes and Peacocks Mrs. Blapton gave all the assistance true womanliness could offer and, in fact, she boxed the ears of one of his assailants very soundly. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman All that is womanly is thereby rubbed off from woman, her womanliness is trodden under foot, the same as, conversely, all manly attributes are stripped from the men in hundreds of other occupations. Woman under socialism But that the girls of to-day are any the less womanly, in all that is sweet and essential in womanliness, than any generation of their ancestors, I for one do not believe. The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations Here she encountered a face and form which were truly all womanly, if by womanliness is meant abject submission and self-effacement. A Manifest Destiny But a man does not love a woman the less for being feminine, and when she thwarts him by a womanliness she delights him excruciatingly. The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards Her walk was queenly, her look full of sweet womanliness. Mabel's Mistake Pearse, too, even in his intoxication of senses, saw and warmed to this evidence of real womanliness in one he had small cause to think anything other than a bewilderingly alluring fury. The Pirate Woman True womanliness must grow and not diminish, in its larger and freer exercise. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V My friends, what is man's idea of womanliness? The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV I have known many beautiful women, women splendid as animals are splendid, but never before one whose intense womanliness made me forget that she was beautiful. A Breath of Prairie and other stories For surely, with such a face, she must have, with all her recklessness, some womanliness, some tenderness of feeling in her. The Wild Geese She loved him for his extraordinary callow youth—which had carried the chaste chivalry of sixteen to the age of twice sixteen; she loved his little occasional tender gleams of womanliness.… The Education of Eric Lane But to express the graces and endowments of a woman, it is her womanliness that is emphasized. Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society I knew I was doing an unwomanly thing, and in order to preserve what little womanliness I might have left, when I got up to read it I whispered the whole essay. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV In the most inconsistent, the most cynical, or the shallowest of her women, there is a latent tenderness, a soft womanliness, which conquers dislike. Australian Writers To me golden hair and blue eyes suggest gentleness and womanliness.... The Limit Pure good nature and innate womanliness were teaching Mattie something better than tact. Not Like Other Girls It would prove the possession of more qualities of womanliness than merely to win his passionate love. What a Young Woman Ought to Know We want to be women, womanly women, stamping the womanliness of our nature upon the country, even as the men have stamped the manliness of their nature upon it. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV And crowning it all was a sweet grace and womanliness which was good to see. The Love Story of Abner Stone He was proud of her, too, of her fearlessness, her 198 tact, her womanliness, and, above all, her air of breeding. The Scarlet Feather This was the kind of thing that happened to ladies in the days when true womanliness consisted in knowing nothing accurately, and always taking advice. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius And I felt in every nerve, that they were suffering from fear lest I should fail to vindicate the womanliness of our joint venture. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Her career, while different from that of most women, was characterized throughout by entire and consistent womanliness. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV She wished dire, frightful calamities upon him, and then, swiftly reacting, her sympathetical womanliness forced the dark passions back, and she threw herself on the bed, sobbing, murmuring: “Forgive me!” 'Firebrand' Trevison She made a picture of sweet, strong, steady womanliness, although she did not know it. Ladies-In-Waiting But through the sweetness of her nature which spoke in voice and expression, through her loveliness and her womanliness, there shone a light from within. The Pools of Silence All Miss Clairville's latent womanliness sprang to the surface as she jumped off the bed and enfolded her friend in a warm embrace. Ringfield A Novel The same prophecies of ruin to womanliness were made against her education on general subjects that are now made against her participation in politics. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV How that speech sends a throb to one's heart—the defiance of it, the subtlety of it, and yet the intense womanliness of it! Terribly Intimate Portraits Thus tenacious were the women in coming to this raw country to preserve their womanliness. A Virginia Scout He was very much interested in her transition from the seriousness of "The Shadow" into the wholesome humor and womanliness of "Our Mrs. McChesney," a part he had planned for her before his final departure. Charles Frohman: Manager and Man It had added to the natural frankness of her modest, unsophisticated nature a staunchness of character, a womanliness, and a nobility of soul that gave her the admiration and respect of all true hearts. The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras They think we might not be what they admire so much; they think we should be lacking in womanliness of character. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV It is this sweet and all-pervading womanliness of Miss Terry’s which fascinates the onlooker. The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly There is no conflict between capable thorough work and womanliness. The Canadian Girl at Work A Book of Vocational Guidance It was a dramatization of the roguish humor and exquisite womanliness that are her peculiar gifts. Charles Frohman: Manager and Man There was nothing bold about her look, but an engaging womanliness, which would have appealed to any decent man, even while it stirred his pulse. Hidden Gold It does not impair their womanliness or make them less satisfactory as wives and mothers. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV We would not notice their homely clothes, coarse hands and simple, unscholarly language, for their real manliness and womanliness would win our esteem and love. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 “I hope you are not deeply agitated over the eradication of womanliness,” Madeline remonstrated. Jewel Weed It touched the chords of all her gentle womanliness and gave the character, so far as the American stage was concerned, a new tradition of youthful charm. Charles Frohman: Manager and Man It takes the light of intellect, the splendor of sweet womanliness, the glory of kindness, unselfishness and goodness to complete a perfect picture of "the woman beautiful." The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture She smiled up at him—a smile so brave in its pathos, so winning in its true womanliness, that Father Honoré felt the tears bite his eyeballs. Flamsted quarries The crowding lilies, as the paso came nearer, were only white, waxen candles after all, but in their light the image of the Virgin gained a womanliness and beauty extraordinary. The Car of Destiny She was such a child as she stood there, yet with something in her, too, of womanliness. Mistress Anne True womanliness is regarded in our country as the saintliness of love. Creative Unity She had the decency not to sit as judge herself; but, in outrage of all womanliness, she sat herself in the court, near the Prince’s seat. The Well in the Desert An Old Legend of the House of Arundel But, with an intensity proportioned to her open-minded recognition of the first material differences, her innate womanliness and pride refused to acknowledge any abyss as to their respective personalities. Flamsted quarries Truly, if this be the result of the vindication of their rights, even the most devoted believer in Rousseau must admit that women thereby will gain, and not lose, in true womanliness. Mary Wollstonecraft If we may venture to summarize the defects of ancient philosophy in two words—it lacked womanliness and it lacked knowledge. The Chief End of Man She has been aroused to remember that womanliness is not chiefly decorative. Creative Unity Almost as perfect in her way is the enchanting Miss Howe—an incarnation of womanliness and wit and fun, after Lovelace the most brilliant of Richardson’s p. 221creations. Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation And whether the overexertion be of the body or of the intelligence, it tends to destroy true womanliness. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield No one can read the life of Mary Wollstonecraft without loving her, or follow her first bitter struggles without feeling honor, nay reverence, for her true womanliness which bore her bravely through them. Mary Wollstonecraft The letters that were shown to me made it still less possible for me to believe in the womanliness of the writer. My Reminiscences The quick restless manner in which she had indulged at times since she came to Farnwood seemed melting into a becoming womanliness, Altogether, Christal was improved. Olive A Novel She was looking into his face as she spoke, and there was an earnestness in the depths of her violet eyes, a sweet womanliness, that he had never seen before. The Second Chance This girl had not the beauty he had demanded as his prerogative in woman, but she had individuality, brains, and all womanliness. The Californians It was Iris as Anstice knew—and loved—her best: youth personified, yet with a womanliness, a gracious femininity, which seemed to promise a more than commonly attractive maturity. Afterwards She was all simple charm, yet also of pulsing womanliness, the healthy product of a country life, a fair survival of many ordeals. The Black Colonel She was a sad spectacle, more than half drunk, with every trace of tenderness and womanliness stamped out of her features. My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life The loving dominion of the mother in the family circle has always seemed to the Germanic races to be the realization of the ideal of womanliness. Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day He would be running from the evidences of a moneyless, self-abnegating youth, from the plain surfaces of efficiency and womanliness, not hedged about and enfolded, but pushed to the extremity of its use. The Lovely Lady In Iris' voice was a womanliness which showed his story had reached the depths of her being. Afterwards The vase of flowers there in the window, the neat-swept hearth, the cheerful fire, and that indefinable something which gives a touch of womanliness to a room. The Black Wolf's Breed A Story of France in the Old World and the New, happening in the Reign of Louis XIV I would make the influence of an occupation on woman's health—considering first and as most important her primary biological function as a potential mother—the test of its womanliness. Women's Wild Oats Essays on the Re-fixing of Moral Standards With regard to Raphael's face, the amount of womanliness in it is a striking characteristic. The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art Certainly she is looking her very, very best; and in her manner with him there is a gentleness and womanliness only just developed. Set in Silver Can anything be more fatal to our ideals of true womanliness, Dr. Biddle asks, than a suffragette who throws stones? The Patient Observer And His Friends No later than the next morning he began to talk to her of Flossie—her beauty, her charm, her sympathetic nature, her womanliness, and her intelligence. Happy Pollyooly The Rich Little Poor Girl Her moral womanliness consists in modesty and self-denial, the preponderance of disinterestedness over egotism. The Friendships of Women It should never tend to pamper weakness, to encourage dependence, to make people timid, to debilitate manliness and womanliness, to make parasites of those who turn to us with their burdens and needs. Making the Most of Life Mrs. Duncan, plump, motherly, lovable in the mature womanliness of forty, greeted him cordially. The Cow Puncher While the book pictures the rude times of war, the charm of womanliness is emphasized throughout. A Mother's List of Books for Children I made her life a burden to her when I was young; and consequently, with true womanliness, she has always entertained the strongest affection for me. Happy Pollyooly The Rich Little Poor Girl Men have coveted a monopoly of executive power, and held up passive obedience as the fittest type of womanliness. The Friendships of Women Her mood veered, and she whirled impulsively toward him, all womanliness and contrition. The Henchman As her character was a model of womanliness, it is natural to believe her face correspondingly beautiful. Correggio A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures And A Portrait Of The Painter With Introduction And Interpretation Better to be thus rudely dissevered, perhaps, than to waste her womanliness, puny and pale from its vague bald nourishment, on a fraud and a farce. Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes Jo could have picked up this frail, silk-garbed creature and thrown her overhead; yet in pure womanliness and tenderness Lucy was not her equal. The She Boss A Western Story The physical womanliness of woman essentially consists in wifehood and maternity. The Friendships of Women Abbie was stouter now than when she had come as a bride to Zenas Henry's white cottage, but there was a serenity in her mien that softened her expression into charming womanliness. Flood Tide In her own gentle womanliness she found something she recognised but could not account for; was it possible that she had some strength of character, after all? The White Sister There are hordes of others pursuing the humbler walks of life eager to acquire by education a higher ideal of manliness and womanliness, and to learn the ways of advanced civilization and approved citizenship. Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro She had about her that charm of manner which can only be described as winsome womanliness. Prudence of the Parsonage The other sex appeared to have thrown all discretion and womanliness to the winds. Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben By a gentle reserve the girl kept him at his distance, and although there was only Jezebel to see, he did not transgress the bounds Delight's sweet womanliness reared between them. Flood Tide He paused, tempted to pass one arm about the girl as his sister had done; but the womanliness of her forbade. From the Valley of the Missing But the jewels her husband prized most in her wuz the calm light of patience, and love, and womanliness that shone on her face. Samantha at the World's Fair But Miss Carew moved forward, and flung her arms round Molly with a gesture of simple but complete womanliness. Great Possessions Here was an air almost of frank boyishness, a smile of pleasant friendliness, with just enough of flushing cheek to show womanliness and warm blood. Contrary Mary Mr. Rollo, too!—who had praised her 'womanliness'—But with that the womanish element prevailed, and there came a quiver of lip, and for an instant her hands were folded across her eyes. Wych Hazel Whose domestic record is more lovely in its pure womanliness than Hannah More's, or Miss Mitford's, or Mrs. Browning's? who wears deathless laurels more modestly than Rosa Bonheur? Infelice It was a triumph far exceeding the noisy outburst that greeted the Mexican—a moral victory over unrestrained lawlessness won simply by true womanliness, unaided and alone. Beth Norvell A Romance of the West She has lost her modesty through disuse; I'm losing my womanliness and power of sympathy for the same reason. The Parts Men Play Twelve months had done a great deal for Gladys, and there was nothing of the child left, though the new womanliness was a most gracious and lovely thing. The Guinea Stamp A Tale of Modern Glasgow Of course Lodge's heroine does lack the exquisite charm of saucy playfulness coupled with gentle womanliness that makes Shakespeare's Rosalind perhaps the most popular heroine of English comedy. Rosalynde or, Euphues' Golden Legacy This new womanliness which he had found so irresistible was alight once more in her face. A Lost Leader He was very proud of his pretty niece, and discerning enough to realize there was a broad strata of womanliness somewhere in Elizabeth's undemonstrative character. Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad She was a woman of thirty-three or thirty-four years, still young, and possessed of a womanliness that softened her whole appearance with a tranquil restfulness. The Parts Men Play The cold brow, the fervent mouth, the fearless eyes, the lines with which Time had chastened into womanliness her girlish figure—these had become the expression of an invincible regret. The Voice of the People Then she spoke with the clear courage of her new-found womanliness. The Clarion Lowest of the low, filthy, diseased probably, her face as though the womanliness had been stamped from her by a brutal heel of iron, she yet was a woman. The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel Her womanliness and spirit appealed strongly to him. Bought and Paid For From the Play of George Broadhurst She had, however, copied the masterpiece without investing herself with its soul: her face was vague and characterless, her whole personality void of that eloquent womanliness which had so wrought upon me. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. Juliet possessed to a degree that pervasive womanliness which vanquishes mankind. The Voice of the People So only that she preserved her womanliness, she, too, wanted to count, to help on, to have her place in the world's progress. A Man's Woman But it was her face that attracted one, a pale sad face that was stamped on every feature with the impress of a determined will and of an intense womanliness. The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel I could not tell, but from that night I noticed a regular change in Jill: she became less girlish and fanciful, a new sort of womanliness developed itself, her high spirits were tempered with softness. Uncle Max For a moment there was some doubt what view the crowd might take of this, but her beauty, her fearlessness, and, above all, the awe inspired by her womanliness, prevailed. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. "I'm afraid my womanliness is only skin deep," he returned, "but I wouldn't give one honest man for all the women since Eve." The Voice of the People To be kind, to be gentle, to be womanly was her second nature, and kindness, gentleness, and womanliness were qualities that her profession only intensified and deepened. A Man's Woman Even now he hardly understood that her glorious womanliness appealed to all that was highest in him, that in her presence he desired to be a Man and so seemed to himself weak and wicked. The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel And then he did not exactly like the looks of the thing, either; he feared that his wife was growing successful as a business person at the risk of losing her womanliness. Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches As a result, the annoyance which, when Edith was a child, she had felt at her childishness, began to harden into irritation at her womanliness. The Vehement Flame "Russ!" she faltered, and there was womanliness and regret trembling with the fear in her voice. The Rustlers of Pecos County Ah, but she had amazing beauty, and a something that seemed of the very essence of deep-souled womanliness! Judith of the Plains Above all things there was a naturalness about her, an absence of artificiality, the emanation of a strong and vigorous womanliness. The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel Not for any particular or exactly named trait are these women praised, but rather for that general, indescribable quality of womanliness—that quality which men have ever praised and ever will praise. Woman's Life in Colonial Days The color was bright in her cheeks, and her half-forgotten girlishness came back in the place of the gravity and dignity that had brought of late a sedate young womanliness to her manner. A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches To some, such a revelation of grace and womanliness in this hoyden, the gentle swelling of lankness to beauty, of lowliness to shy self-poise, was a sudden joy, to others a mere blindness. The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel No other women on earth could have emerged from the hell of force and temptation which once engulfed and still surrounds black women in America with half the modesty and womanliness that they retain. Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil Half unconsciously he had been wishing to see his mother—perhaps not even to speak, but just to see her placid face in its kind womanliness. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl Much has been written of the shrewdness, carefulness, industry, as well as general womanliness of Abigail Adams. Woman's Life in Colonial Days Evidently she was a free-born soul, unhampered by the social weaknesses of a large city, and illumined by the spiritual grace of native womanliness. Unleavened Bread The great womanliness of her, the ability to suffer in silence, and the dignity of such a silence touched him strangely. Katrine There is a portion of womanliness always hidden from him. Hints for Lovers The life of this real Greek heroine should be studied by those who are investigating the question of wherein womanliness consists. Reviews Mrs. Adams was still another example of that rare womanliness which could combine with practical domestic ability a taste for high intellectual pursuits. Woman's Life in Colonial Days But surely the essentials of 'manliness' and 'womanliness' belong to man and woman alike—the externals are purely artistic considerations, and subject to the vagaries of fashion. Prose Fancies (Second Series) Field-work, as an occupation, may not be consistent with the finest feminine culture or the most complete womanliness; but it in no way conflicts with virtue, self-respect, and social development. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 By doing this, no woman loses her womanliness, goodness or social position, and to these influences the vote is but another influence. Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans" All we can say in modification of this is, that there is, after all, a foundation for the rather vague item of "manliness" and "womanliness" in these schoolgirl lists of duties. Women and the Alphabet A Series of Essays They could be valiant without losing refinement; they could bid defiance to the enemy and yet retain all womanliness. Woman's Life in Colonial Days From these misconceptions of manliness and womanliness, these superstitions of sex, many curious confusions have come about. Prose Fancies (Second Series) The girl's bright intelligence and fine womanliness, the old gentleman's kindly and practical ways, have made my visits to them ever so pleasant, and those journeys to the barrens and the river have been delightful. Sweetapple Cove Elizabeth Barrett contrived to assert, what still needs but then urgently needed assertion, the fact that womanliness, whether in life or poetry, was a positive thing, and not the negative of manliness. Robert Browning The little cares rasp and fret and sting the manliness and the womanliness and the godlikeness out of us. The Threshold Grace But she seemed to embody all the womanliness that had been lacking in his life. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873 Similarly, fashions in manliness or womanliness have nothing to do with real manliness or womanliness. Prose Fancies (Second Series) Field was so constituted that, without this saving grace of womanliness, the presentation of Camille, with all its hectic surroundings, would have repelled him. Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 1 Her womanliness flowed in and she took them off, begrudgingly eager to please and a little excited that someone should take an interest— even a critical interest— in the mundane aspects of her life. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America By her acquiescences, her skill, her warmth, her adaptability, her intense womanliness, she had created between them a bond stronger than anything that could keep them apart. The Pretty Lady Anthony Dexter looked long at the perfect features, the warm, sweet, tempting mouth, the great, trusting eyes, and the brown hair that waved so softly back from her face; the all-pervading and abiding womanliness. A Spinner in the Sun You are not asked for the realities of manliness or womanliness, but for the shadows, the arbitrary externalities, the fashions of which change from generation to generation. Prose Fancies (Second Series) He liked Cicely, and he was surprised at the sudden womanliness that had come into her manner. Phebe, Her Profession A Sequel to Teddy: Her Book There is a sweet, sedate, and almost solemn womanliness about her, which even overawes Mrs. Stanley, conscious of aunthood and strongmindedness, and insisting upon it that her niece is "a mere child." Overland There was more ideality than passionate womanliness in her interpretations. The Story of My Life Recollections and Reflections There, as in the dance halls, the "White Slaver" plies his trade, and the destroyer of womanliness lays his nets. What eight million women want The womanliness of your soul, aside from minor peculiarities, consists in its regarding life and love as the same thing. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes She held fast to the German spirit through all the changes in her life, with the same determination which made it possible, in her strenuous labors, to retain her gentle womanliness. Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. The very coloring and the arrangement of the hair were changed subtly to express, not the skill of high-priced beauty-doctors and of fashionable hair-dressers, but the instinctive care of womanliness. The Eyes of the World As has already been suggested, her womanliness is a more prominent characteristic of Mrs. Lewes's mind than its great intellectual power. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy To despise the petty arts of womanliness, to trust to the sanity of man…. Love and Mr. Lewisham My latent womanliness arose and pointed this out so plainly that I seized my pen and wrote: Dear Harold, I will not get a chance of speaking to you in the morning, so write. My Brilliant Career It seems to me, if there is any profession a woman could follow without losing her womanliness, it is that of doctor. The Second Generation The gracious womanliness of her struck Vera afresh with its charm. The Obstacle Race Carlotta was prettier than ever with a new sweetness and womanliness which her love had wrought in her during the year. Wild Wings A Romance of Youth It seemed to him rather that circumstances had compelled her, and that through all the suffering of her life she had retained the more beautiful qualities of her womanliness, for which he reverenced her. Within the Law They are items of pecuniary and cultural beauty which have come to do duty as elements of the ideal of womanliness. Theory of the Leisure Class Stern Moralist, being propelled down corridor: "Well, if the way to restore women to womanliness is to make them do drudgery which they can hire somebody else to do, why isn't——" His voice dies away. Stories from Everybody's Magazine She met his eyes with a shining tenderness in her own that gave her a womanliness which he had never seen in her before. The Obstacle Race Oh, Armand! will you ever know the terrible sacrifice of pride, of dignity, of womanliness a devoted sister is making for your sake? The Scarlet Pimpernel It was in her private audiences that this great woman's tact, womanliness, fascination and charm as a hostess appeared. Court Life in China It may broadly be set down that the womanliness of woman's apparel resolves itself, in point of substantial fact, into the more effective hindrance to useful exertion offered by the garments peculiar to women. Theory of the Leisure Class Grace was bound to smile; but that side of womanliness was one which her inexperience had no great zest in contemplating. The Woodlanders It seemed to him as if her sweet, clean purity and womanliness took a form of its own which his accustomed senses were too gross to perceive. Blix He loved her for her sweetness, for her womanliness, for her strength. Beyond the City But she had lost none of her womanliness; rather, the contrary. The Octopus : A story of California Its womanliness sat tragically on the figure of so stern a piece of virility. The Mayor of Casterbridge The anxiety and responsibility that she felt for his condition had bred in her a touch of womanliness and authority that was new. Freckles All her sweet, strong womanliness had been suddenly deepened and broadened. Blix At all events he determined to spare the possible wounding of outraged womanliness and to wait before putting any final stamp upon the nature of their relations. The Indian Lily and Other Stories Nowhere does the genuine unselfishness and sweet womanliness of the Queen show more than in her record of those days. Queen Victoria Story of Her Life and Reign, 1819-1901 She protected those cheeks forthwith, deeming spotlessness part of womanliness. The Mayor of Casterbridge If she did read them, she found only one perfect figure of womanliness in her husband's poems, and that figure herself. The Book of Delight and Other Papers She stands for the point in human development when womanliness asserts itself and begins to revolt and to throw off the yoke of sensualism and of tyranny. The Woman's Bible "And most truly love and reverence you for your womanliness." The Amateur Gentleman The charms were here, unquenched by this stare of daylight, but from them shone a lustre of womanliness wholly new. The Cavalier There is many a quaint bit of humor, many a strong, sound lesson in manliness and womanliness which must appeal to us in the telling. The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys This woman with the deep, kind eyes, the soft, calm voice, her cheeks glowing with healthful outdoor exercise, and her air of sweet womanliness. The Calling of Dan Matthews "I certainly was rather struck and surprised with her manner that day; its womanliness made me smile." Villette And failing that particular woman another can, in a certain degree, by her mere womanliness, stay the pressure of the want. With Edged Tools But if she never recalled that entirely, not the less were her love and tenderness—all womanliness—entire in her. The Portent & Other Stories You want my opinion about women's studying medicine; you personally have reason to think that the career of medicine is not incompatible with true womanliness, exquisite refinement, perfect grace and breeding. Geoffrey Strong With all her womanliness, there was, nevertheless, a certain firmness in the finely- moulded chin that gave evidence of a line of ancestry that had never been too deferential to those in authority. The Strong Arm No man can be your equal; you can not be his, without laying down the very jewels of the womanliness that men love. The Delicious Vice And this she did—not with conscious art but by that sure instinct of womanliness which teaches that a man won by other than indirect methods is not won at all. An Algonquin Maiden A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada Just a line in pencil, nothing; but perhaps there is a softness in the letters, a womanliness--I don't know. Look Back on Happiness But, Mrs. Smith, I—" "Woman's place has been the home since home was a cave, and it will be the home so long as women will remember that womanliness is their greatest asset. The Sturdy Oak A composite Novel of American Politics by fourteen American authors Indeed, its opposites--gush and a tendency to hysteria--are regarded, in many respectable quarters, as among the proper attributes of true womanliness; attributes to be artistically cultivated. Journalism for Women A Practical Guide Or, perhaps, the womanliness that had been called out to meet his passing weakness had set her on another plane. The Shadow of the East From this gracious figure was exhaled invisible radiations—the luxurious sense of refined womanliness. An Algonquin Maiden A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada The sad grace, the tender resignation, the poetic enthusiasm, the petulant caprice, the wilful, lovely womanliness of the lovely queen, are made tragically real by her representation. Literary and Social Essays All the womanliness in her,—however little it may be appreciated now-a-days,—which is after all nothing but a memory of the great mother, the force of nature which is woman's endowment, was roused. Married At present she is engaged in war work, where her high faith, serene womanliness, and overflowing humour ought to make her, in the finest sense of the word, efficient. The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century She had been grim and complaining in former meetings with this interesting young man; she had frightened him away, apparently; perhaps she could win him back by womanliness and good humour. King Coal : a Novel The true environment of woman is womanliness; not to fit her nature to the utmost that womanliness can mean to the world, is to fail of womanly attainment. Woman and the Republic — a Survey of the Woman-Suffrage Movement in the United States and a Discussion of the Claims and Arguments of Its Foremost Advocates Ten years ago it would have been as difficult for women of our day to understand adequately the womanliness of the Pilgrim matrons and girls. The Women Who Came in the Mayflower And then they talk about modesty and womanliness and retiring! Modern Broods So thinking, he unfastened the cloak of the woman whose beauty and sweet womanliness, had made him captive. A Heart-Song of To-day She laid her hand on the silver handle of the door—then she paused—looked back, all the womanliness, all the passion of her life stirred to its depths. A Terrible Secret I learned to comprehend the value of womanliness to the world by the estimate that those noble educators put upon it. Woman and the Republic — a Survey of the Woman-Suffrage Movement in the United States and a Discussion of the Claims and Arguments of Its Foremost Advocates That, to my mind, was a picture of true "womanliness." Lawn Tennis for Ladies That a woman could be clever as men are clever, and also be graceful, adorned, and tender with womanliness, he had not supposed. Saxe Holm's Stories "You are a clever actress, Miss Vernon," said Bertram; "but I am inclined to think there is a latent depth of character, a womanliness in you that our gay butterflies of fashion lack." A Heart-Song of To-day This womanliness in her never failed to delight him, for it showed she was still his wife, buried as it were in the carcase of a beast but with a woman's soul. Lady into Fox Mrs. Willard's high ideal of womanliness is beginning to be set forth by the electric light of modern thought. Woman and the Republic — a Survey of the Woman-Suffrage Movement in the United States and a Discussion of the Claims and Arguments of Its Foremost Advocates As to the second objection, the injury to the womanliness of woman, the answer depends on what is meant by the essential feature of "womanliness." Lawn Tennis for Ladies This record has been enthusiastically dwelt upon for its thorough womanliness; and so it is truly womanly, royally womanly. Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 1 It was very babyish and undignified; but, after all, no assumption of womanliness would have helped me so much. Esther : a book for girls Perhaps she feared that her cherished womanliness would be endangered by too close an attention to accuracy and style. Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century To "preserve womanliness" was a task they felt they must fulfil, or the women for whose good they labored would one day call them to account. Woman and the Republic — a Survey of the Woman-Suffrage Movement in the United States and a Discussion of the Claims and Arguments of Its Foremost Advocates Any thing that takes away from modesty, refinement, gentleness, takes away from womanliness. Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out It is impossible to read such portions of her letters as have been published without being struck by their wise womanliness and gentle motherliness. Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 1 There is much in her face of pure womanliness and simple goodness; yet it is by no means wanting in animated intelligence. Queen Victoria, her girlhood and womanhood Chief among her ambitions at this time was that of being 'every inch a woman,' and she was a firm believer in the fashionable theory that true womanliness was incompatible with learning. Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century The mystery of this world's evil is sadly exemplified in her defective character, from which sweet, true womanliness was left out. A Day of Fate This characteristic of womanliness is not that weak, unsubstantial quality which we sometimes associate with effeminacy. Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out Queen Adelaide's goodness and kindness, her unselfish, unassuming womanliness and devout resignation to sorrow and suffering, did more than gain and keep the heart of her bluff, eccentric sailor-prince. Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 1 When Patty Reed reached Woodworth's and had been provided with suitable food, an incident occurred which fully illustrates the tenderness and womanliness of her nature. History of the Donner Party, a Tragedy of the Sierra You see, there was such high degree of womanliness in her, and such tenderness, and what love! Stories by Foreign Authors: Russian Because I thought I might perhaps have the courage and the womanliness to give it back to you. What Every Woman Knows As I said at first, girls, girlishness, while inferior to womanliness, is no hindrance to it. Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out But of course Lorraine was a woman of the world, with a larger mixture of the other kind of womanliness, perhaps, than was usual, and he in his perspicacity had deftly appealed to both. Winding Paths Natalie had ripened wonderfully since her marriage, and added to her rich dark beauty there was now an elusive sweetness, a warmth and womanliness which had been lacking before. The Iron Trail Nevertheless she was much appreciated owing to her charming appearance as well as to her pure and dignified womanliness, and I remember many tokens of esteem which she received in those days. My Life — Volume 1 At his look and touch her throat swelled, her bosom heaved, and the silken lids fluttered until she seemed choked by a very flood of sweet womanliness. The Spoilers There is a value to be placed on the very trappings of girlhood which do not in the least interfere with womanliness. Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out Her daily sojourn in the City, among the bread-winners, had made her large-hearted and generously tolerant, without hurting in any degree her own innate womanliness and charm. Winding Paths Is it at the Ibsen club that you see all this manliness and womanliness? The Philanderer She was laughing and crying now with little, quick gasps, in a sheer hysteria which no doubt would have given her sister entire satisfaction as a manifesto of her normal womanliness. The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors Herminia lifted her eyes to his with just a tinge of lofty scorn, tempered only by the womanliness of those melting lashes. The Woman Who Did Of this we are sure,—that no beauty, no intelligence, can compare with womanliness; and that no girl, weak and wicked as she may be, is utterly lost to a return to womanliness. Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out Boyish and offhand to a certain extent, the solid foundation of womanliness in her nature was never far below the surface. Mates at Billabong She had grown fuller of late—quite fat, said Richard, when he wished to tease her: a luxuriant young womanliness lay over and about her. Australia Felix I have seen Eleanor Faversham, and she has released me from my engagement with such grace, dignity, and sweet womanliness that I wonder how I could have railed at her thousand virtues. Simon the Jester She was pale and thin, but the sweet warm womanliness of her, if possible, lovelier. The Reign of Law; a tale of the Kentucky hemp fields Now I think the quality which so attracts is womanliness, the most desirable of all the gifts a girl is permitted to cultivate. Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out After a moment, however, he muttered a reproach against his own darkness of spirit and his lack of faith in her womanliness, and opened the envelope. The Judgment House It was, moreover, the single one of the arts, in which this staunch advocate of womanliness granted her sex a share. Maurice Guest Her noble forehead was shown, and her face, a model of intelligence, womanliness, and serene dignity. A Woman-Hater "It shows how a woman likes to be depended on," said Gabriella, with her deep womanliness. The Reign of Law; a tale of the Kentucky hemp fields The womanliness in both would not amount to so much as is in one bright gleam from the eye of an Evangeline. Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out He himself had experienced the intense attraction of her womanliness,—all the more overpowering when it was realised, because it did not appear upon the surface. The Rosary Mercifully he seemed to have held in remembrance all these years not so much her youthful bloom as her general qualities of mind and heart: her cheeriness, her spirit, her unflagging zeal, her bright womanliness. Homespun Tales He was really enjoying the girl's rebellion and growing womanliness. Main-Travelled Roads She did her duty, young though she was, with a surprising, old-fashioned womanliness that won many a smile of approval from her father, and caused David's eyes to open with astonishment. Bob, Son of Battle We cannot tell so much what womanliness is in girls as what it does. Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out Daisy was as sunshiny and charming as ever, with all sorts of womanlinesses budding in her, for she was like her gentle mother, and delighted in domestic things. Little Men A sudden impulse of sheer womanliness caused a tear to fall on his hand. The Patrician But hers was the Diana type of womanliness. The Snare Whimsically, if you please, it suggested both womanliness and will. Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan Exact attention to points of etiquette, gracefulness, accomplishments, proper subservience to the will of others, do not of themselves make womanliness; many more than these characteristics, and greater, are needful. Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out She is a Raby too, only softened down by her sweet womanliness. Put Yourself in His Place Nor, though the attributes of the lion were there, was there wanting the certain softness, the hint of womanliness, which bespoke the emotional nature. The Son of the Wolf There were times when she regretfully suspected in Sylvia a lack of proper womanliness, a taint almost of masculinity. The Snare For though the women were naturally not aged, and some had not yet lost all comeliness of feature, this womanliness made the thing the more appealing. Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan Surely, politeness is a real property of womanliness. Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out What do I care about dignity, and womanliness, and right, and all the rest of the canting words! Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green Well, that showed that she was a woman, at any rate, and he loved her all the better for her womanliness. Phyllis of Philistia Romance, provided my readers fully comprehended what I would here imply by the word—"romance" and "womanliness" seem to me convertible terms: and, after all, what man truly loves in woman, is simply her womanhood. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 Here in her quivering throat was the weakness of her, the evidence of her sex, the womanliness that belied the mountaineer stride and the grasp of strong brown hands on a rifle. To the Last Man Oh, how, girls, shall we get this womanliness into our characters, or, rather, how shall we make it shine out of them? Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out Then also, how did I know that Juliana’s merry childishness would not ripen into sweet, cheerful womanliness? Novel Notes Mercifully he seemed to have held in remembrance all these years not so much her youthful bloom as her general qualities of mind and heart: her cheeriness, her spirit, her unflagging zeal, her bright womanliness. The Old Peabody Pew However it came about, there was Mercy out on a series of morning calls with a woman twice her age, but a woman whose many years had taught her neither womanliness nor wisdom. Bunyan Characters (2nd Series) It seemed as though she had lost nearly everything in life, but she had not yet lost her womanliness and her pride. The White Moll I would not imply that womanliness does not exist in those women whom superior talents have raised above the average man. Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out "I know—I know," she conceded, the tender womanliness of her sighing over the need. Cow-Country Emphasis was not her habit; it only needed that she should put off her ordinary reserve, utter quietly the emotional thought which so seldom might declare itself, and her tones had an exquisite womanliness. New Grub Street Spare to false womanliness her delicacy, Or bid true manliness give ear, we crave: In our defence thus chained are we. Poems — Volume 2 As I have said, it was the woman of her, her sheer womanliness, that betrayed Miriam and me in the end. The Jacket (Star-Rover) But with all these resemblances of manliness to womanliness, there is a difference which all may recognize if they will. Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out We are told that true manliness and true womanliness are one and the same. Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out This reverence for woman is the first and truest step towards womanliness. Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out We know that encouragement, not intimacy, the gentle rebuke of a bow or a greeting, are more helpful to arouse the sparks of womanliness than the cold stare or averted head. Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out As you shall see, it was her womanliness that betrayed her and me in they end. The Jacket (Star-Rover) But girlishness, construed to mean just a love of dress and finery, does not make womanliness. Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out Here, again, I want to emphasize the fact that womanliness does not require a girl to abandon merriment, vigorous exercise of the body, or brain, or heart, freedom in sports, and "a jolly good time." Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out What can there be more beautiful than womanliness! Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out Perhaps you think that refinement and good education produce greater womanliness than ignorance and low surroundings. Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out She had brain, she had wit, and, above all, she had womanliness. The Jacket (Star-Rover) The marvel of her womanliness was even more striking than the power of her oratory. Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out |
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