| 单词 | babyish |
| 例句 | He’d removed his helmet, revealing a babyish face that didn’t go with his military haircut or his big burly frame. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z There were girls with squeaky voices or soft altos, plump girls and thin ones, babyish girls who wore heart lockets and girls who were old before their time and worked as secretaries in insurance firms. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I tried to picture myself in a missionary role, gathering the little children unto me, as it was embarrassing to be playing this babyish game with children waist-high to me. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d already taken down my map of Middle-earth and hidden away my globe and anything else Hugo might think babyish, so I just stayed sitting on my windowsill. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z It was a passable likeness, and the artist perceived one not very obvious aspect of the sitter’s countenance—its mischief, an amused, babyish malice that suggested some unkind cupid aiming envenomed arrows. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z But I didn’t, because that would be babyish. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I admit: I made my voice sound a little babyish. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z I know that sounds kind of babyish of me, but I wasn’t feeling very brave right then. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z He must say nothing about his mother, for fear Adam would think him babyish. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z When I was only four years old, Still babyish and unsteady, I tried to play with common folk— They hated me already. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z ‘Just because you can't think of anything for yourself,' he said in a babyish voice. ‘You've got to do the things I do.' I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z “So, don’t you think this is babyish to still do?” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z “Is this a good costume? Or will it make me look babyish?” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I hope she’s a little bit shy and likes to draw and read, and I hope she doesn’t think it’s babyish to send Morse code messages. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Big Ma must have prayed harder to find wool pleated skirts, because among all those mod new jumpers and skirts, she managed to find a rack of babyish pleated skirts. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Maddie stood close by, not close enough to touch, not anything so babyish. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Matt couldn’t help crying, even though he knew it was a babyish thing to do. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Even his face seemed less rounded and babyish, his cheekbones more noticeable than his dimples. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z I should probably hate it because it’s a babyish nickname, but I hope he calls me cupcake even when I’m really old, like thirty. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z A lot of them are too babyish, but toward the end of the book there are some harder ones that are quite pretty. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z I know it was a little babyish of me to still need them to do that, but that’s just how it was with us. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z It wouldn’t be some generic babyish birthday celebration, with cupcakes for the whole class, like you did in elementary school. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z "Kate, do you have a few –" "Not now, not now!" she snaps, in her strangely babyish voice. Glastonbury 2010: Meet the celebrities 2010-06-28T07:00:00Z Harry's dad is always busy working, and his mum is a bit annoying, always calling him babyish names. Harry Hammer: Shark Star by Davy Ocean – review 2013-06-30T14:00:00Z His daunting size — “You’re like a Sasquatch,” someone in the movie says — contrasts with soft, babyish features and a wounded, wide-eyed manner. Movie Review: ?Jeff, Who Lives at Home,? a Duplass Brothers Comedy 2012-03-15T22:12:53Z I try to find something individual and likable in everyone's handwriting, but this is a bit sad and even a little babyish. Beyoncé, Obama, Lady Gaga – what does their handwriting say about them? 2012-10-14T16:59:02Z They took up residence at the Vendome Hotel, where the bilingual girls chatted in “babyish Japanese.” Joan Fontaine: The Oscar-Winning Star and Her Notorious Sister Act 2013-12-25T18:53:48Z That is evidently far too babyish and needs to be sexed up, or rather teen-abstinenced up. Snow White and the Huntsman – review 2012-05-31T21:00:01Z Having that awkward, babyish word dragging on you every day of your life, from childhood into maturity, well, maybe it’s no wonder I prefer hot chocolate to whisky and substitute Harry Potter audiobooks for therapy. The ‘perfect body’ is a lie. I believed it for a long time and let it shrink my life 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z Think about it: the quick, babyish, despairing impatience. The Pyro-American in Me 2016-07-03T04:00:00Z I thought the book was good but the storyline was a bit babyish for me. Iggy and Me and the New Baby by Jenny Valentine - review 2012-10-10T08:00:00Z But unlike Lear she is a mother; Colin, though often rough and gross, is in Nick Holder’s wonderful portrayal surprisingly babyish and dainty underneath. Review: Holding Hands With the Homeless, in ‘Love’ 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Ellie is supposed to be 14 but in both performance and writing she behaves like a much younger child, more immature, flippant and babyish than most 11-year-olds. What our reverence for Pedro Pascal's daddy era says about us 2023-02-10T05:00:00Z The swimmers, aged 18 to 24, look very young but their concentration and focus make the rest of us look babyish. Film critic Peter Bradshaw reviews the GB Olympics synchronised swimming team 2012-07-15T18:05:38Z Depending on the song, it can sound babyish and demanding, or it can sound grand and imperial. Idina Menzel at Radio City Music Hall 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z In many of the most popular clips, these whippersnappers engage in adultlike conversations, amusingly given their babyish voices. Kids Make the Darndest Viral Videos 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z Johnson said the characters he described were “a bit more babyish, more simplified” than the ones that turned up in the finished book. 'Watership Down' Author Richard Adams Dies at Age 96 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z In Season 40 Sesame Workshop made a conscious effort to lure back older preschoolers who had deemed the show too babyish. ‘Sesame Street’ Adds ‘Elmo the Musical’ 2012-09-13T13:55:48Z It’s great for “when you’re in that no man’s land, between being a kid and a teenager” and “still want to embrace your childhood but not look too babyish at the same time,” she says. From preschoolers to college-bound teens: Back-to-school must-haves for kids of all ages 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z Mr. Wainwright’s singing has a persistent babyish whine reminiscent of the great country star George Jones. Review: Loudon Wainwright III Offers Tart Folk-Song Sentiments at Appel Room 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z One moment, this gangly adolescent is perching babyishly on the edge of the sink, her bare feet and knees drawn up under her; the next, she’s brandishing a kitchen knife to make herself look powerful. Review | ‘Member of the Wedding’ is Southern Gothic looking for flavor 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z But he scaled back public commitments following a 2006 stroke that left him feeling, as he described it in a 2009 interview, feeling "babyish." Irish poet Nobel winner Seamus Heaney dies at 74 2013-08-30T12:31:11Z But he scaled back public commitments following a 2006 stroke that left him feeling, as he described it in a 2009 interview, feeling “babyish.” Irish Poet and Nobel Winner Seamus Heaney Dies at 74 2013-08-30T15:07:16Z Sugar is especially fascinating because she’s hypersexualized and babyish, knowing and innocent, and her innocence is also sincere and a deception. We Still Like It Hot 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z "Buy me a gun," Amir replies haltingly, his words jarring with his babyish voice. Yemen: The children of a forgotten war 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z “Our first song, because we were so touched by all of that music, came out in babyish, broken English.” The French-born twins who make up Ibeyi find their rhythm in English 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z She would later recall that Johnny was quote “babyishly plump and round like a child’s drawing of the man on the moon.” Lost Women of Science Podcast, Season 2: Episode One - The Grasshopper 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z She remembered the babyish Braille storybooks her teachers found for her. Perspective | He was her eyesight. She was his everything. 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z Certainly, the growing clamor for more vaccine mandates — which the majority of Americans support — shows that most of the rest of us are fed up with their babyish antics. Biden asks Americans to act like grown-ups — but Republicans are too addicted to being brats 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z He is short and skinny, with a face that would seem babyish but for his thin mustache and beard, which are still a work in progress. Who’s Making All Those Scam Calls? 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z While the rookie started out raw, babyish and cosseted, he has progressed by “light-years,” as interim coach Bill Callahan put it — thanks to an exquisite teaching job by the thankless Callahan and his staff. Perspective | Dwayne Haskins is a favorite of Daniel Snyder, and we’ve seen where that can lead 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z It’s babyish, it’s distasteful and it’s basically a disgusting mess. Brownfinger May pulls off ‘le backwards’ in Brussels and heads for Pizza Hut stardom | Marina Hyde 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z From his babyish face, he cracked bemused smiles from time to time. Two-way player Shohei Ohtani is a one-of-a-kind draw at spring training 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z In some lights his face looks babyish; in others, as though it has been chiselled out of Mount Rushmore. Aaron Judge catches fans’ hearts in an MLB season for the ages | Matthew Engel 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z So what should the world do with a babyish bully in the sandbox, who wants everything for himself and won’t be reasoned with? How to respond to Trump's America | Joseph Stiglitz 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z She snapped back that he was “arrogant”, babyish and craven to big finance. French election: Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron trade insults in TV debate 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z Ms. Johnson said the characters he described were “a bit more babyish, more simplified” than the ones that turned up in the finished book. ‘Watership Down’ Author Richard Adams Dies at 96 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z Her father, she tells us, is easy to write about; he was vivid, domineering, scornful, and babyishly quick to anger. Helen Garner’s Savage Self-Scrutiny 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z She was wearing a very babyish dress and a bow in her hair. The Photo That Made Me: Mary Ellen Mark 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z Correction: I was a tad alarmed by the babyish, high pitched “Hi!,” that goes along with the game’s intro. Kirby and the Rainbow Curse reviewed: A game that makes you feel like a life-saving artist 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z "If you come and bring your kids to the show, and it feels babyish, you won't be interested in coming back," she said. Executive profile: Empire of clowns, ice and dirt 2013-08-12T05:00:00Z They have a babyish desire to have their tummies tickled. Viewpoint: Stop coddling dumb undecided voters 2012-10-01T23:19:34Z Mr. Hutton covered the babyish face with kisses. Mortal Coils 2012-04-06T02:00:30.740Z In a burst of babyish fury, he—the ruler of France and the arbiter of Europe's fate—crawled so low as to seek revenge on a harmless woman. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z I wish I could speak quite right, Bess says it's so babyish.' Nurse Heatherdale's Story 2012-03-06T03:00:21.190Z “Then it isn’t so—so babyish after all,” said Chet, and that gave him a grain of comfort. First at the North Pole Two Boys in the Arctic Circle 2012-02-27T03:00:16.033Z I found her a changed woman—a new woman, indeed, in whom I only now and then caught a glimpse of her old indolent, babyish and foolish self. Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 12, March 22, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside 2012-02-24T03:00:26.570Z The Wall Street Farmer recovered at once from his fit of babyish emotion, and motioned his dog to go on to the next post. Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z At last just as she had found a new trick which amused the babyish side of her brain greatly, came a remark which thoroughly caught her attention. The Man with the Pan Pipes and other Stories 2012-02-06T03:00:12.143Z It was harder to believe she was grown up when she began to talk, for her voice was that of a child, a high shrill treble, with a babyish lisp, losing itself in giggles. Our House And London out of Our Windows 2012-02-03T03:00:24.190Z Her manner was even more babyish than her appearance. The Girl Scouts at Rocky Ledge Nora's Real Vacation 2012-01-20T03:00:14.427Z When I begin to put it into words, it sounds a babyish reason; but that jackanapes, Layton, has been playing an idiotic practical joke upon me, and I—was fool enough to mind it. Christina 2012-01-16T03:00:06.507Z He was once more his calmly dignified self, though not a little ashamed of his babyish pranks, and mildly wondering how he had come to behave so. Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z The Medusa-head again, an incarnation of implacable malignity; no wonder that Fielding Thaneford's big, babyish cheeks were beaded with sweat and that his breath came and went in short gasps. In Jeopardy 2012-01-04T03:00:35.013Z We had got accustomed to the old high bicycle, and the 'Safety' looked ridiculous and babyish by comparison. Leaves in the Wind 2011-10-28T02:00:25.937Z Willa complained that she was tired of using “babyish” soaps and instead wanted soap made for girls her age. DealBook: P.&G. Settles Trademark Dispute With Start-Up Skin Care Company 2011-10-15T00:39:15Z It is eight years since he joined the battery—a woolly-coated babyish remount straight from an Irish dealer's yard. Servants of the Guns 2011-10-06T02:00:39.987Z The girl complained that she didn’t like “babyish” soaps anymore. DealBook: A Start-Up Takes On Procter & Gamble Over a Name 2011-09-29T01:34:18Z He was a big man with a plump babyish face and a constant, faint smile that gave him the look of a mischievous, overweight child. Magazine Preview: The Surreal Ruins of Qaddafi?s Never-Never Land 2011-09-22T00:01:40Z She was still pretty, but she was losing her complexion, and the peevish lines I had noticed the night before showed more deeply round her babyish mouth. The Claw 2011-08-31T02:01:30.563Z He was a very little boy, Carnota, and his peculiar uncertainty of movement made him still more babyish. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z She was 103 twenty-seven, tall like her brother, and with a fair, babyish face like his. The Wayfarers 2011-08-28T02:00:32.867Z The wide babyish eyes registered a flash of gratification. Marjorie Dean College Junior 2011-08-27T02:00:22.827Z Worship—true worship of the heart—does not imply a sickly sentimentality, as some young men believe; to go to church is not "babyish," nor to stay away from it "smart." Successward A Young Man's Book for Young Men 2011-08-15T02:00:27.860Z Her influence among the half dozen freshmen at the Hall with whom she consorted was great enough to incite them to mischief against tall, babyish Gussie. Marjorie Dean, College Senior 2011-08-01T02:00:12.720Z It is not babyish, like Jacqueline’s; there are no dimples, but—” Then the grotesqueness of it all would strike her, and even make her laugh. Throckmorton 2011-07-25T02:00:15.900Z Surely there is nothing in all the world so babyish as the general idea of the Christian heaven. The Hearts of Men 2011-07-19T02:00:20.477Z A wolfish light flashed into the wide, babyish blue eyes. Marjorie Dean College Junior 2011-08-27T02:00:22.827Z Smilingly Olwen took aim with one blackberry after another, missing twice to each one that she dropped into the mouth not so far from her knee; a babyish game enough! The Disturbing Charm 2011-06-17T02:00:21.077Z She asked a thousand questions about our mother and little Samuel, and about the babyish sayings and doings of my little sisters and myself. In Both Worlds 2011-06-08T02:00:17.360Z He had gone to sleep directly, but Judith held him close; he was so little, so babyish, yet so soft and warm and clinging. Throckmorton 2011-07-25T02:00:15.900Z It is babyish in me to cry, but I couldn’t help it. Marjorie Dean High School Senior 2011-06-06T02:00:09.407Z It was very babyish and vulgar, but Robert looked so solemn that she could not resist the impulse. Old Kensington 2011-05-29T02:00:09.797Z "Yes, and I asked if Dicky was too little to belong to the Boys' Club and Dorothy said that he wasn't if he wasn't babyish." Ethel Morton at Chautauqua 2011-05-04T02:00:16.097Z It was Peggy's way when she grew low-spirited to speak more babyishly than usual; at such times it was too much trouble to think about being a big girl. Little Miss Peggy Only a Nursery Story 2011-05-03T02:00:18.093Z The child had always been headstrong and self-willed from the cradle; her nurses could not cope with her babyish tempers; her governesses dreaded her domineering ways. Petticoat Rule 2011-04-18T02:00:14.507Z Then, too, these same babyish girls were vastly important pupils of Sanford High. Marjorie Dean High School Senior 2011-06-06T02:00:09.407Z "I'm gittin' to be a fool, a babyish fool," he said, presently. The Hills of Refuge A Novel 2011-04-09T02:00:10.530Z She, who, aware of Helen's babyish and blithering Innocence, did a lot of mischief in her time. Punch,or The London Charivari, Volume 105, July 22nd, 1893 2011-04-02T02:00:12.230Z There was a moment of impressive silence while the "lady" held before her eyes in her babyish fingers the single card, and gazed petrified on the Medusa-like visage of the Old Maid. The Storm Centre 2011-03-01T03:00:39.427Z For those lips are almost babyish in their curves, the lips of a man who would drink the cold pure water of life in preference to its coloured vintages, the lips of an idealist. A Woman's Experience in the Great War 2011-02-26T03:00:48.257Z But for my babyish ways and utter hopelessness, I feel positive Sir Guy would have beaten me long ago. Airy Fairy Lilian 2011-02-11T03:00:31.760Z She was pretty, even in this dim light it was easy to see how pretty, with a round babyish face and crisp fair hair. Vestigia Vol. II. 2011-02-04T03:00:22.950Z There was something peculiar and remarkable in the traits of her round, brown face, with its thin, delicate nose, its round, almost babyish cheeks, and its clear, dark eyes. The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 2011-01-31T03:00:16.193Z It is impossible to make her understand that such babyish ways are highly unsuitable in a young lady of her age. No Surrender 2011-01-29T03:00:22.467Z Betsy was still clinging to her, her babyish hands shaking the slender shoulders under the green satin jacket, when Gus bounded upon the platform and took the almost hysterical child into his arms. Girl Alone 2011-01-27T03:00:36.117Z How innocent it looks, and babyish, in its green leaves! Airy Fairy Lilian 2011-02-11T03:00:31.760Z "Indeed, Hugo, I must beg you to dispense with the babyish 'Lieschen' in addressing a young lady of twenty-one," his wife said, sharply. Quicksands 2011-01-15T03:00:33.213Z We are programmed to respond to these babyish looks. Pandamania 2011-01-11T13:39:27Z "What, you don't believe me?" she asked, pouting her lips in a pretty, babyish fashion. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z “Pitty Sing” was indeed a pretty thing, a very doll of a woman, the flaxen hair on her small head marcelled meticulously, her little plump cheeks and pouting, babyish lips tinted with rouge. Girl Alone 2011-01-27T03:00:36.117Z And Klaasje had come and sat by Aunt Constance, almost creeping into her dress, with a very babyish picture-book in her hand. Dr. Adriaan 2010-12-29T03:00:33.467Z When the long corridor was reached, with babyish inconsequence, Caroline's small burden elected to go to his strong arms, and he carried her right into the nursery. Capricious Caroline On being reassured upon this, he would relax again, and, as likely as not, break into a babyish wail over his aches and pains. Into the Primitive But no, the girl looked so sweet and demure, such babyish smiles flickered and dimpled about the mouth—all scented of fresh youth like a June hayfield. The Firebrand Sally stooped and pressed her lips, through the fence opening, against the babyish mouth of little Eloise Durant, the newest and most forlorn orphan of them all. Girl Alone 2011-01-27T03:00:36.117Z "Oh yes, please do bring the Indian maiden with you," she remarked with an innocent, babyish expression that fooled her Aunt but not her visitors. The Ranch Girls at Rainbow Lodge The Ranch Girls Series Her gown is snow-white, with just a touch of black at the throat and wrists; a pretty frill of soft babyish lace caresses her throat. Faith and Unfaith At first," he said, "our bodies are so babyish that our souls do not find them an adequate medium of expression. Through the Postern Gate A Romance in Seven Days "Isn't it rather babyish of him not to want her to take one little month to rest in and see her own people?" Shadows of Flames A Novel There was a soft delicate turn of the chin, childish, almost babyish, which made the heart within him like water. The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion She wore a blue riding suit and a big Mexican hat like Jack's and her face looked very young and babyish under it. The Ranch Girls at Rainbow Lodge The Ranch Girls Series Well, she will certainly look younger; she has such a little, fresh, babyish rose-bud of a face. Faith and Unfaith Weariness and the shedding of many tears had left their mark on his round, babyish face, and the elder boys looked little more than half-awake themselves. The Youngest Girl in the School "It's babyish for a man to want his wife with him, is it?" Shadows of Flames A Novel It proved a comfortable support, and with a babyish yawn she promptly fell asleep again. The Sun Maid A Story of Fort Dearborn The two children are babyish in figure and expression and the little dog is more serious than is his wont upon these occasions. Artists Past and Present Random Studies The young, after leaving the nest in June, have a loud, babyish food-call, dee-dee-dee-dee, repeated time after time until their wants are satisfied. What Bird is That? A Pocket Museum of the Land Birds of the Eastern United States Arranged According to Season Sick at the stomach as was her visitor at the whole babyish performance, he so far controlled his qualms as to note down the words hereunder written. The Witches of New York He was more babyish than the others, more content to remain long my baby. An Isle in the Water Indistinctly, she heard the murmuring of the babyish voice at the threshold and occasionally caught some of the words it uttered. The Sun Maid A Story of Fort Dearborn Whereat the colt, eyes wide with terror, whirled to his mother, whimpering babyishly. Bred of the Desert A Horse and a Romance Again it would be, "You are very babyish, and lack self-control; there is no need of crying over such a small matter as a little blister on your finger." A Dear Little Girl The story about the burglary was simply babyish. The German Classics, v. 20 Masterpieces of German Literature His first letters from school were tear-stained and full of babyish thoughts and reminiscences. An Isle in the Water It was so queer to hear Maudie talking babyishly—she always did if she was at all ill. The Girls and I A Veracious History The tiny face burrowing under Glory’s chin was partially turned and the babyish hand pointed outward in a very imperative way. A Sunny Little Lass Anything like rudeness I am simply babyishly afraid of; and noises, and especially the sounds of certain voices, are the devil to me. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) I think I was rather a babyish child for my age in some ways. The Boys and I These are not to be confused with the fat, pudgy babyish fingers of the Alimentive, for though the latter's fingers are smooth around, they do not present straight outlines at the sides. How to Analyze People on Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types Shame at her folly had put into her greenish eyes a pleading timidity which became a quivering, babyish tremble when it reached the lips. The Side Of The Angels A Novel It “looked so babyish,” the young ladies said, and was “out of the question now when the boy can write poetry.” Walter Pieterse A Story of Holland His Vada was with him again, hectoring, guiding him as was her wont, and, in his babyish way, he was satisfied. The Twins of Suffering Creek She could not bear it to be thought that she was babyish or "silly." The Adventures of Herr Baby "I'm frightfully disappointed," he said, taking off his eyeglasses to wipe them on his handkerchief and looking so babyishly ingenuous that Jeff broke into a laugh. The Prisoner He did not wish to be unduly troubled with requests for permission; he fancied it a babyish habit for a well-grown boy to fall into. Billy Topsail & Company A Story for Boys I am trying to get over my babyish way of talking, or at least of writing, and hope I may exceed. Harper's Young People, August 10, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Many times he could have flung aside his mask and given up, but the babyish laughter held him to an effort such as he had never before been called upon to make. The Twins of Suffering Creek Another mistake women make is to forget that lovely childish curves of early youth change with the advancing years and the babyish style of dressing, so becoming then, may be worn too long. Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society Do you know my first babyish name for father?' Lover or Friend The boys wear a long pinafore or overall of cheap black stuff, and even the biggest go about in short socks, showing their bare legs, which looks rather babyish to us. Round the Wonderful World The babyish innocence of Raymonde’s face at 106 that moment might have served an artist as a model for a child angel. The Madcap of the School I do not know why a velvet cap was despised, but it was; a cap with a tassel was babyish. A Boy's Town “Dear Hugh, I am so very tired, and you will not talk to me,” in a sad babyish voice. Wee Wifie He already nurses a hankering to be regarded as one of the grown-ups and imagines there’s something rather babyish in any undue show of feeling. The Prairie Child Then, again, his eyes were babyish blue and unseasoned; he was always looking into shop windows, getting accustomed to the sights. What's-His-Name Fauvette, whose babyish characteristics led her into many pitfalls, seemed suddenly to become the scapegoat of Mademoiselle’s freshly acquired vigilance. The Madcap of the School He had once caught Susie and Clara at it, and had laughed at them in no measured terms for indulging in such a babyish game. Not Like Other Girls Now he demanded, in that helpless, babyish, blind way of his, that she repudiate her love. Rose O'Paradise Her wide babyish smile, the more appealing because of her wet lashes, made a sudden impression upon Norma's heart. The Beloved Woman And yet this intonation and manner of speaking impressed Alyosha as almost incredibly incongruous with the childishly simple and happy expression of her face, the soft, babyish joy in her eyes. The Brothers Karamazov He grew less babyish—stronger both in mind and body. Little Folks (December 1884) A Magazine for the Young She is only seventeen—tall, slight, with a transparent skin, and something actually babyish about the eyes. Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange The half pout on Charlie's babyish mouth, born of Constance's dread edict, died suddenly. Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore The little matron was extremely attractive in her new dignities, and her babyish face looked more ridiculously youthful than ever as she talked of "my husband," "my little girl," "my house," and "my attorney." The Beloved Woman The pleasant little whistle would die upon his lips when he saw her sitting by the Mother's grave, plaiting grasses while the Sister sewed, or making clumsy babyish attempts at drawing on her little slate. The Dop Doctor He had, as had I, been utterly inefficient, helpless, babyish, and cowardly—yet the odds against us had seemed overwhelming. It, and Other Stories Whereupon little Duke—man of affairs, forager, financier—overcome at last with the fulness of the situation, made a really babyish square mouth, and threw himself sobbing upon his father's bosom. Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets and Other Tales The blue silk stockings and heelless, blue kid slippers emphasized the babyish effect of her costume, and Marjorie had hard work to keep back her tears. Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore "He's ever so much more babyish than me." Little Folks (July 1884) A Magazine for the Young One dimpled, rounded, bare arm lay upon the soft dappled fur, the babyish fingers curled one upon the other. The Dop Doctor You just know a girl like her would never fall off a horse, or run away from a gun, or—do anything babyish like that. Virginia of Elk Creek Valley I just remembered another one on the train that journey—the little variety actress who had her dresses made to look cute and babyish—the one with bleached hair, and they called her Goldie. That Girl Montana Her babyish face looked white and wan in the clear morning light. Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore When I returned him, duly bandaged, to his father's arms, the child bent forward and put out his lips for a kiss, saying good-night with babyish pronunciation. The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia He evidently enjoys a delicious childish emotion, almost a babyish emotion, in giving himself up into the hands of his Maker to be soothed and petted, healed and comforted. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations When he beheld her, he stopped abruptly, lost in admiration of the daintily clad young person whose Castle-cut locks had been lured to a coiffure from which little tendrils escaped in babyish rings. Penny of Top Hill Trail “O, of course you have; but of course, as you didn’t find her, you were not so babyish as to sit down and cry about it.” Up The Baltic Young America in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark Marjorie's whole little face at that moment had a curious careworn look, out of keeping with its round and somewhat babyish form. The Children of Wilton Chase She stopped crying—well, really, I think she had stopped already, for whatever her faults were she wasn't a babyish child—to look at it. Peterkin How they pounded and cried, those amusing, sophisticated, babyish Parisians! Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty They don’t look,” she explained, smiling, “exactly babyish.” The Indifference of Juliet "It seems almost babyish," Lloyd was saying to herself. The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation And Hoodie herself from the first, too, seemed to have a strange, babyish instinct that it was so. Hoodie I didn't quite like her asking that: it made me seem so babyish. Peterkin He is a great pet, of course, but not in a very babyish way—he seems too sensible for that; and he is very gentle and thoughtful, but not at all "soft" or cowardly. A Christmas Posy They had insisted upon being independent, and it would be babyish to fret about the consequences, when unpalatable. Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 1 That and her appealing big blue eyes, and almost babyish complexion, made her seem much younger than she was. The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation That was just it—Hoodie was so strange, so self-willed, and yet babyish, so heartless, and yet so impressionable. Hoodie I wish they didn't call him "little Peterkin," though,' he went on, 'it sounds so babyish.' Peterkin “Mam-ma!” said Patty, putting her finger in her mouth, and assuming a vacant, babyish stare. Patty's Success “Are you going?” and Patty put her fingertip in her mouth, and looked babyishly at him. Patty's Social Season Her light hair was almost as short as a boy’s and was boyish in appearance, save that it curled in an almost babyish fashion. The Girl Scouts in Beechwood Forest And through her babyish brain there ran misty, dreamy ideas of something she would do to make "them" all sorry—she would go away somewhere "far, far," and never come back again. Hoodie Her soft, rough hair was twisted into a curly knot upon her small head, her pretty, babyish face was at its best of bloom and expression—that absent, subdued look was becoming to her. That Lass O' Lowrie's 1877 It was an eye eloquent with gratitude and babyishly blue. The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel It is considered "babyish," however, to resort to this unless there is some very good reason. Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium This little speech, so babyish and "Patty-like," brought Squire Lyman to himself, and he hugged the silly creature as if she stood for the whole five children. Little Grandmother His face was becoming so ruddy and fatuous and babyish. The Job An American Novel The poem opens with some very babyish verses descriptive of an “old manor hall”:— “Its huge fantastic weather-vanes Look happy in the light; Its warm face through the foliage gleams, A comfortable sight.” Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 He felt quite angry with himself for his momentary panic; it was stupid and babyish. Queensland Cousins Two or three years later these games are apt to seem "babyish" to a child and to lose interest for him. Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium She was in the middle of some conventional sentence when she suddenly stopped short, and her voice trailed off in a babyish quiver. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908 Shirley, I'm afraid you thought I was pretty babyish—about giving up my profession. The House of Toys Her face was heart-shaped, narrowing from the wide, low brow to the small, rounded chin set below a round, babyish mouth of slight mobility but much innocent sweetness. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance He thought Bob would not have thought much of him for it; it was rather babyish. Queensland Cousins The agony in her hands had been so great that it had taken all her strength to bear it, and now it was going she felt weak and babyish. The Governess Silently they began to draw on their stockings and shoes, and though determined they wouldn't do anything so babyish as to cry, yet it was no easy matter to keep the tears back. Marjorie's Busy Days Her round face and form assumed airs of dignity, and she strove valiantly to put away all babyish weaknesses as things of the past. Our Frank and other stories And she pointed to a case of babyish ornaments, pin-cushions, and artificial flowers. Olive A Novel She was waving a twig of lavender, and little Martha was making grabs at it, and laughing her gurgling laugh of babyish glee. The Daughters of Danaus Little sister waves her fat, red arms in the air and shrieks in babyish delight. Jersey Street and Jersey Lane Urban and Suburban Sketches And yet the wine of romance kept her almost babyishly young. The Madigans You have not been babyish at all, but most brave and heroic.” Tom and Some Other Girls A Public School Story “I wish it wasn’t babyish to like toys,” she sighed. Betty Wales Senior Our female Education is too superficial, trifling, babyish. Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. Rosanna had never thought about it at all, but now it seemed a very babyish and helpless thing. The Girl Scouts at Home, or, Rosanna's Beautiful Day The whole machinery strikes us as simply babyish, unless we charitably assume374 the whole to be intentionally burlesque. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) They're getting rather too big for such babyish things as soldiers, Uncle! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 24, 1892 So that it isn't entirely babyish and foolish to howl and squirm about when you are hurt—though it is manly to keep both within reasonable limits. A Handbook of Health She was a soft, babyish creature, downy and clinging, soft-eyed and gentle, the beggar folk had received gifts at her hand, the dogs knew of her largesse. Here are Ladies This person, evidently the younger of the two, had a babyish face, big innocent blue eyes, and a profusion of fluffy yellow hair. The Statesmen Snowbound Yet, babyish as this mass of nursery tales may appear to us, it is curious that the theory which Walpole advocated has been exactly carried out. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) He was of an age when a babyish diminutive becomes a thorn unspeakable. The Henchman They were such babyish things and amounted to nothing, but they seemed important then. The Emigrant Trail An Italian proverb runs, “It is easy to scoff at a bull from a window,” and we indulge in not a little of such babyish effrontery from our safe place in the world. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View Hope clutched Faith's hand, and the complaining monkey gave a last babyish little cry, and snuggled down in the warmth of their nestling forms, his sorrows quickly forgotten in slumber. All Aboard A Story for Girls And Billy comforted me in his sweet, babyish fashion that I remembered he used when he was in kilts. At Home with the Jardines It would thus appear that the common charge brought against laughter, of being something babyish, or childish, or boyish—something properly appertaining to early life—is unfounded. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 438 Volume 17, New Series, May 22, 1852 For how is it possible to have trouvers and at the same time to call babyishly for your mother? A Melody in Silver She looked so babyishly young, and so furiously cross. Sunny Slopes Her fair hair clung about her face in damp babyish tendrils, and her face was flushed and dusty, but alight with friendly interest. Prudence of the Parsonage He was sleeping when I went in, and was muttering over a babyish prayer, which quite touched me. From the Valley of the Missing I often wonder who was the first to begin such a disgraceful custom, the most cruel, senseless, and babyish piece of folly: I mean what is called bird-nesting. Kindness to Animals Or, The Sin of Cruelty Exposed and Rebuked She was a slender little thing, and looked delicate in spite of a babyish roundness of face, which was due to bone-formation rather than flesh. The Shoulders of Atlas A Novel It was babyish love as yet, but there were dangerous possibilities which nobody foresaw, except Henry Stillman. By the Light of the Soul A Novel The children could not understand how a little girl could be grown-up and babyish at the same time. Maida's Little Shop Whether a child should say "father" and "mother," or use the more babyish form of "papa" and "mama" is a matter of parental choice, but the preference in some circles is for the former. Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada Tremulous smiles played about her soft, babyish mouth and a joyous excitement shone in her wide, blue eyes. The Black Pearl He is often clumsy and sometimes almost babyish. Andrew Marvell His hair had thinned, and receded from his temples, and the bold, almost babyish fulness of his temples was more evident. By the Light of the Soul A Novel Like most children who lead an abnormal, because a lonely, childhood, he was in some ways very mature, in other ways still very babyish. What Timmy Did The exact type he admired; not too intellectual-looking, just soft and round and babyish; there was one little curl on her snowy nuque that he longed to kiss there and then. The Man and the Moment Are they waltzes for children? and then the babyish names for them! Piano and Song How to Teach, How to Learn, and How to Form a Judgment of Musical Performances But I suppose a boy thinks he is called babyish, if the name is fastened on him. Holiday Stories for Young People A baby is dependent upon its parents; and babyish spirits, they say, never outgrow this sense of dependence, but transfer that on which they rely from the seen to the unseen. Some Christian Convictions A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking Mrs. Crofton had a small three-cornered face, a ridiculously little, babyish mouth, and a great deal of dark, curly hair which matched in a queer kind of way the color of her big, pathetic-looking eyes. What Timmy Did That is an excuse entirely too babyish for women to offer in this age of the world. Dickey Downy The Autobiography of a Bird He barked a warning, and the sharp signal went around from hillock to hillock; and in half a minute all the big, babyish eyes were fixed upon the approach of the skying marauder. Children of the Wild Her eyes were dark and bright, her babyish lips were full and scarlet, her nose was whimsically uptilted. The Palace of Darkened Windows Yet of course he praises my biology up to the skies—there I am wise—everywhere else I am a kind of weak, babyish idiot! Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 2 Quick was he to make the encounter accord with the child's happy view, even picking him up and forcing from himself the gaiety to rally him upon his babyish tenderness to rough play. The Seeker It might be babyish; but he hated telling: and it was a wee bit easier with his face hidden. Far to Seek A Romance of England and India Capable of a recital, inches of inside measure, all the western window wet and no smoke settling, all this and a hurricane, is a flight simple, it is not babyish, it is not surgical. Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein With Two Shorter Stories She looked at Arlee with eyes where her terror was visible, and all the lines of her pretty, common little face were changed and sharpened, and her babyish lips dragged down strangely at the corners. The Palace of Darkened Windows But the smile with which she put a greasy little hand into his extended hand was misty and babyish still. New Faces She had a charming, babyish little face, and was something of the baby still in the confiding and wistful way in which she leaned on others for support. The Palace Beautiful A Story for Girls It depends on whether the home Government and press give up their babyish "let's pretend" attitude and face the difficulties of the situation. With Rimington "There's God, ain't there?" she said, inquiringly, and getting no answer she flopped upon her knees, to say a babyish prayer that would sound comic to anybody except to Him to whom it was addressed. Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood "Well, it seems sort o' babyish not to smoke." Elsie's New Relations Elsie's beauty had not faded, she was still young and fair in appearance, with the same sweetly pure and innocent expression which old Mrs. Dinsmore had been wont to stigmatize as "that babyish look." Grandmother Elsie She will never praise anything I do unless it is so simple as to be almost babyish. The Palace Beautiful A Story for Girls The uplifted babyish face came back to him as he had first seen it under floating cherry-colored ribbons, and his anger of the last half-hour melted and vanished utterly away. The Wheel of Life Her pretty mouth was never strong, but when the corners drooped it was babyish. Septimus Then Prudy is a little babyish thing, and always was—making a fuss if I forget to call her Rosy Frances! Little Prudy's Sister Susy To stand on the words of the Regent—“every day”—would be a babyish quibble. John Knox and the Reformation Little babyish blue eyes they were with curly corners, a gay light in the sombre truculence of his face. The Divine Fire As he watched her she lifted her head with the babyish tilt he had first seen under cherry-coloured ribbons. The Wheel of Life She was shorter, slimmer, paler than her sister: of a certain babyish prettiness. Septimus "Oh, I was trying to think of something much more—more, well, not so babyish; more like what Kitty said than what you and Dan said." Kitty Trenire Her little hands were fondly clasped about the girl's neck; she looked down into her face with babyish adoration while Eileen, the elder child, gazed upward with a more serious devotion. Charles Rex She was a live thing, defiantly and gaily conscious of every absurdity with which she indulged the babyish tastes of one more public. Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory He knew he was the cause of the disaster that had overtaken the patrol, but he had the mistaken idea that it would seem babyish and weak to jump in and show contrition. Don Strong, Patrol Leader He is himself, however, delicate, overgrown, with a narrow chest, a small head, and babyish features, while mentally he is backward, with very defective memory and scant powers of assimilation. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women Look here, fellows," he said, "we don't want to have to yell for the janitor with those sophs there; that's too babyish. Behind the line A story of college life and football Her eyes were clear, grey, and open, almost babyish in their rounded innocence. Waysiders She was utterly disconsolate, and I could only keep on stroking the child's head as I used to, when she came to seek consolation for babyish sorrows. Sweetapple Cove The worst of being so babyish is—one does have to tell such a lot of taradiddles! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 4, 1891 They call him, therefore, "a most babyish writer, an owl." Ten Reasons Proposed to His Adversaries for Disputation in the Name of the Faith and Presented to the Illustrious Members of Our Universities When he was a mere child of eighty, his babyish attempts to understand the Voice were more dangerous than the wrath of Cain. Back to Methuselah Mabel did not need him—she was only babyish and spleeny—and so she told the physician, who, however, did not agree with her. 'Lena Rivers "Our fault, if I can gather it rightly from what I've been reading, is that we Americans are inclined to be too babyish." The High School Boys' Training Hike "Wait until I've had a week of good eating and sound sleeping, and then see if you can find anything babyish about me," snapped the prisoner. The High School Boys in Summer Camp Sick people are selfish, peevish, whimsical, and babyish. Analyzing Character The women love tears; and even the men are not averse from this very natural expression of feeling, which our Anglo-Saxon schooling has condemned as babyish. Kimono It was not, assuredly, for such babyish solemnities that our imaginary prophet was stoned in the morning of the world. The Defendant With such babyish words she talked the frowns off my face, or, when they would not go fast enough, hastened them by reaching up and smoothing them away with her finger. Red Axe His big, old, gnarled hands shook as they rested on the sill, his underlip trembled and drooped like a child's, babyish tears gathered in his eyes. North, South and over the Sea Surgeon and nurses scoffed at his moans, and thought it babyish, for a muscular man over six feet to show so many signs of pain. Half a Century She was, as usual, dressed in black, and beautiful to look on; but her round babyish face was pale and pinched, and there were black lines beneath her eyes. Colonel Quaritch, V.C. A Tale of Country Life Gathering enterprise from impunity, he began babyish hydraulic engineering. The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth And what if the little dumpling Elsa, with her red cheeks and her babyish eyes, did run in and out. Red Axe He declares that what you are about is mad and babyish. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti I saw a little girl, oh, a fair little creature, with fluffy, golden hair shading her babyish face, who was on her knees beside a white and gilded berth. Lord Dolphin With his vivid imagination he handles it with the lightest manner in the world, he adds, he expands, he takes away in the most sincere fashion, looking at you all the while with babyish innocence. Library Work with Children It was then that a soft babyish voice reached his ear. Baby Mine The author does not wish to say it is babyish to cry. The Wouldbegoods Yet I found it impossible to be angry with them for long, they were so babyishly innocent. Mr. Standfast And it would be just as much fun, even if it was so babyish, to have tea by herself and pretend that she was entertaining clever men. Main Street Of course, the great part of the more stolid reproaches directed against the Omarite morality are as false and babyish as such reproaches usually are. Heretics Bruno, the big actor, was so babyish that it was easy to send him off in brute sulks, banging the door. The Wisdom of Father Brown When nature has already so handicapped the African in the race for knowledge, the cry of the boasted Anglo-Saxon for still further odds seems babyish. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue She stood an instant longer, then bending, ran her hand caressingly down a rosy bare leg, while she kissed the babyish red mouth. A Girl of the Limberlost Oh, heavenly woman, who stood beside the tray, who fed her and warmed her while she was yet weak and babyish from sleep! The Happy Foreigner The flushed babyish face under the fashionable hat looked at him askance. Delia Blanchflower The final and original white horse, the white horse of the White Horse Vale, has that big, babyish quality that truly belongs to our remotest ancestors. Alarms and Discursions Whatever may happen The Elder must come To accounts with the Barin, And how can I answer His babyish questions? Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia? "If you meant 'babyish,' or 'childish,' she, or her friends might demur; but, if you use the term 'love of children,' what better name for a fairy queen?" Welsh Fairy Tales "Surely there is nothing in all the world so babyish." Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene A pitiful smile flitted across Isy's face, and with it returned the almost babyish look that used to form part of her charm. Salted with Fire George Talboys turned at the sound of the babyish voice, and looked long and earnestly at the boy. Lady Audley's Secret "I don't want to be babyish, Father," said Midget, suddenly feeling ashamed of herself. Marjorie's New Friend She had a babyish manner across the footlights, and she was thought to be a blonde, for she was wearing a yellow wig over her own short black hair that season. Tales from Bohemia "A charming woman," said I. Lackaday smiled in his sad babyish way. The Mountebank They were simple words, childish words, almost babyish, but full of tenderness and love. The Christian A Story But she used to hear him go by on the stairs with the children: and she would stand in hiding behind her door to listen to their babyish prattle, which so moved her heart. Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House "You're not babyish, dear; it's right and womanly to feel grief at losing Gladys; but since it has to be, I want you to conquer that grief, and not let it conquer you." Marjorie's New Friend Yet things quite as preposterous as this are said and written under the influence of that great spectacle of babyish helplessness, the economic theory of history. Tremendous Trifles Sybil was a curious girl, fair, with a fat babyish face, and a vast idea of her own importance. Monitress Merle Ojen is young and nervous; his little, round, girlish face is pale and void of expression; he squints as if he were near-sighted, although his eyes are good, and his voice is soft and babyish. Shallow Soil This state of things is childish—simply childish; or perhaps I ought to say babyish. Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War It will only come as the result of a universal feeling that war is the most babyish and laughably idiotic thing that this poor world has evolved. If I May They made him look more babyish; but I believe Cicely kept 'em so to make him look young, she felt so dubersome about his future. Sweet Cicely — or Josiah Allen as a Politician She wore the most babyish dress made in empire, and it was evident she knew something about making up for good effect on the stage. The Motor Girls on Cedar Lake Or the Hermit of Fern Island He was so tickled by her babyish remorse that he made her say it again. We Can't Have Everything In the chill of the night the little cub had snuggled up close between the warmth of Thor's huge forearms, and still lay there, whimpering in his babyish way as he dreamed. The Grizzly King The Child is the soul of babyish content, equally amused with its thumb and the homage it is receiving. A Wanderer in Florence Adj. infantine†, infantile; puerile; boyish, girlish, childish, babyish, kittenish; baby; newborn, unfledged, new-fledged, callow. in the cradle, in swaddling clothes, in long clothes, in arms, in leading strings; at the breast; in one's teens. Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases A babyish voice babbled merrily, but the sounds were all "goos" and "ahs" without any resemblance to words. Aunt Jane's Nieces in Society A young man would think that so babyish. Peter's Mother In the face of that, speculations upon a comet or gaseous emanations hitting the planet, or the sun growing cold, become babyish fancies. The Glands Regulating Personality The babyish cry and its effect upon Gray Wolf taught Kazan his first lesson in fatherhood. Kazan All this looks babyish in the writing, but there was a method in this self-examination. Salute to Adventurers Grandma Padgett now saw that the cart was standing level and open, and within it there appeared a nest of brown curls and one slim, babyish hand. Old Caravan Days She looked so young and babyish and helpless that Nyoda made up her mind on the spot that she was not the kind of girl who could be left on her own resources. The Camp Fire Girls Go Motoring Or, Along the Road That Leads the Way It was very babyish and undignified; but, after all, no assumption of womanliness would have helped me so much. Esther : a book for girls He did not fondle them, as Gray Wolf did, but the touch of them, and their babyish whimperings, filled him with a kind of pleasure that he had never experienced before. Kazan How was I, with my babyish woodcraft, to contend for a moment against an Indian who was as subtle and velvet-footed as a wild beast? Salute to Adventurers As she was two or three years younger than I, I had at first taken but little notice of her—probably I thought her too babyish. The Story of a Child How any girl of eighteen could be so babyish and helpless as she was was a revelation to them. The Camp Fire Girls Go Motoring Or, Along the Road That Leads the Way The blackness of their setting of up-curled lashes made them look babyishly wide. The Head of the House of Coombe The scent was followed by a whimpering, babyish chatter. Kazan "You cry quite too easily; it is entirely too babyish for a girl of your age; you must quit it." Elsie Dinsmore "We must try not to be babyish about it." Half a Dozen Girls This species of silence has almost without exception its origin in that babyish vanity which is always gratified by exciting attention, without ever perceiving that it provokes contempt. Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 1 Never have I known anything so ludicrous as the contrast between my stupendous number tens and the dainty pumps that seemed almost babyish beside them. A Fool and His Money A porcupine entered the opening and proceeded to advance in its foolish fashion, still chattering in that babyish way that has made its life inviolable at the hands of man. Kazan "Well, if you get that far, will you come with me to the Riviera, or to Florence, or Sicily—or Cairo?" the other asked, adjusting her gold-brown wig with her babyish hands. The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Complete "Well, if you get that far, will you come with me to the Riviera, or to Florence, or Sicily—or Cairo?" the other asked, adjusting her gold- brown wig with her babyish hands. The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Volume 2 The only attempt to improve our minds at this period came, oddly enough, from my masterful brother who despised our babyish intellects—especially mine. Far Away and Long Ago Meffia, a month older than herself and looking six years younger, was a small, awkward, ungainly girl, with pale blue eyes, pale yellow hair and babyish pink complexion. The Unwilling Vestal Babes, you know, have not only babyish stomachs, but also babyish tricks, and must be dealt withal as babes; their childish talk and frompered carriages must be borne withal. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 Good Josephine becomes attached to the shy, sweet little wanderer, who forgets, day by day, in the new life of Cinderella, her babyish glimpses of any other land. The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance They were wholly babyish documents, about the donkey, the nurse, the toys, and games of the small boy's daily life. Many Kingdoms They attacked the poor child on the score of his manly aspirations, telling him it was babyish to tell mamma and sisters everything, a practice fit for girls, not for boys or men. The Young Step-Mother His babyish woes had been comforted by servants. Youth Challenges Spoons, you know, are to feed us with weak and thin food, even with that which best suiteth with weak stomachs, or with a babyish temper. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 I must have been very babyish, the other day; I don't think I could feel like that again. The Guest of Quesnay “I can understand, and I don’t think ’t was babyish,” said Janice, her heart wrung with sympathy for him. Janice Meredith We're made of better stuff, you and I, than to cry at such babyish bumps. Mary Louise It was very babyish and foolish, but it is to be questioned whether she could have contrived a more telling situation had she studied it for a month. At Last I don't greatly care for that blonde, babyish style of loveliness—I prefer Agnes Campion. Kilmeny of the Orchard She had delicate aquiline features and a small, babyish red mouth. Further Chronicles of Avonlea She wore no jewelry, and the simple attire was very becoming to the soft, babyish curves of her neck and dimpled arms. Patty's Butterfly Days They have beautiful large black eyes, and usually a luxuriant head of hair; but their faces arc, on the whole, babyish and expressionless. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 From San Francisco to Teheran Her face looked more babyish and innocent than ever as it smiled to its own fair image in the glass. A Sweet Girl Graduate Presently, on the first call, an enchanting little girl In a shabby smock had come in, a little girl all dimples, demureness, and untouched babyish beauty. Sisters She pouted, she dimpled, she dispensed babyish slaps, she lapsed into rather poorly imitated baby talk. The Heart of Rachael "From papa," said Patty, putting the tip of her finger in her mouth, and speaking babyishly. Patty's Butterfly Days Here was an almost babyish face; what did that innocent-looking twelve-year-old think of life, now that she had thrown her own away? The Story of Julia Page It was a babyish cry, a cry for his mother, for home, for warmth, for something soft and protecting to nestle up to. Baree, Son of Kazan The soft curve of her chin, the babyish shortness of her upper lip, and the crimson sweetness of the little earnest mouth had never seemed more lovely than they were to-day. Sisters Jeanette was boyish and brisk, a splendid sportswoman, and Phyllis, at twenty-six, was still babyish and appealing, tiny in build, and full of feminine charms. The Heart of Rachael Your uncle, with his babyish cunning that everybody sees through, has given me the only proof I wanted. Love Me Little, Love Me Long She gave herself a sober yet approving glance in the mirror; the corners of her firm yet babyish mouth twitched with pleasure. The Story of Julia Page A babyish face with puffy eyelids, and cheek-bones as lurid as if lozenge-shaped bits of crimson paper had been stuck on, comes out of the ground, opens one eye, then the other. Under Fire: the story of a squad He was no longer gay; there was rather a strained look about his beautiful babyish eyes. Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby He was but eleven months and nine days old and, though still a tiny toddler, was just beginning to lisp his first babyish words. Ulysses He remembered how disappointment and restless ambition had blotted out her fresh, babyish beauty; how thin and sharp her voice had grown as the months went on. The Rich Mrs. Burgoyne Julia had somehow lost her babyish beauty now; she was thin and lanky, four teeth were missing, and even her glorious mop of hair seemed what her mother called "slinky." The Story of Julia Page She spoke her r's like w's, lisping with a slightly babyish pronunciation which was at once affected and true to her character. Women in Love For in truth, every man, even the oldest of us, is like a little child, so brief and babyish are the years of our life in comparison of eternity. Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2 And what is a coarse fact in the case of Faulconbridge becomes a motive of pathetic appeal in the wan and babyish Arthur. Appreciations, with an Essay on Style I come to Schwarz, last fall," she said shaking back her hair, and making effective use of her babyish mouth; "and he thinks no end of me. Maurice Guest Her eyes were quick, and yet soft and babyish—petted eyes. The Titan Jimmy held on to the hand in a way that in the daylight of life he would have been the first to call babyish. The Enchanted Castle This Hannah was a young woman with a pretty and rather babyish face, diversified by a thick biceps muscle in her arm that a blacksmith need not have blushed for. Hard Cash She was smiling now and showing her babyish teeth. Pointed Roofs Pilgrimage, Volume 1 Why then draw back from this interesting lobbyist with such babyish repulsion? Democracy, an American novel "I don't, I never cry, no matter how I'm hurt; it's babyish," said Nan, loftily. Little Men But after his eighth birthday that had been done away with, Miss Braithwaite considering it babyish. Long Live the King! Oh, don't waste your pity, mamma; those great babyish tears were a happy thought of mine. Hard Cash She looked just as usual, pudgy and babyish and surprised and half resentful... it was her eyebrows. Pointed Roofs Pilgrimage, Volume 1 He had no false shame or babyish timidity. For Greater Things; the story of Saint Stanislaus Kostka He had a babyish yearning to bury his face in his dead friend's fur, and cry. His Dog In babyish rage at the dog's placid presence in his path, he drew back one ungainly foot and kicked the astonished collie in the ribs. Further Adventures of Lad For the first time the girl lost her high fortitude, and a babyish quiver shook her lips. The Deliverance; a romance of the Virginia tobacco fields It stretched out its little arms to come to her, with that pretty, babyish gesture which I suppose no woman can resist. John Halifax, Gentleman Many evolutionists much wiser had "figured out" things even more babyish. A Miscellany of Men Oh, don't cry!" we tell them, "that is babyish. Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow His face, because of its full, clear, big, inscrutable eyes, had an expression which was almost babyish. The Financier, a novel But at the moment his pink and babyish face wore an expression of complete misery. The Red Cross Girl However, the trousers were foolish, being knickerbockers, and accompanied by low socks, which revealed pretty, dimpled, babyish legs. The Copy-Cat and Other Stories A thread-paper of a girl like that, who has no manner, no talk, no intelligence; who has nothing to recommend her but an awkward, babyish prettiness! After Dark And she went on storming at Prissy, who began to cry, and looked so weak and babyish that I was frightened she would betray the whole thing. Chronicles of Avonlea You all saw nothing in that masterpiece but the blunder of a young man fresh from college, a babyish fiasco. The Magic Skin I shall send you my surgeon to examine your wounds, and see whether the thumps you make such a babyish outcry about really were as violent and overpowering as you represent. Captain Fracasse His face was babyish in slumber, despite his wrinkles and the red spectacle-dents on the slopes of his nose. Babbitt It would be contemptible if it weren’t so—what shall I call it?—babyish. The Arrow of Gold A Story Between Two Notes It seems so babyish for me to be going to night school. Martin Eden |
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