She looked charmingly childlike.

It is bestowed on little children, and on those whose natures, in spite of their years, are essentially childlike.

Indeed he has little to offer us that has not been common property of the Correspondents for long enough, and several of his descriptions (his picture of a glacier, for one), given with a rather irritatingly childlike air of new discovery, cannot escape the charge of commonplace.

In the stronger lighting of the Boulevard Haussmann her face seemed oddly childlike, oddly luminous with appeal.

She may help us," said the girl, in a voice that was plaintively childlike.

In 1830, led by his connection with Blackwood's Magazine, to which he was the chief contributor, De Quincey removed with his family to Edinburgh, where his erratic genius and his singularly childlike ways produced enough amusing anecdotes to fill a volume.

This aberration we can only explain on the ground that she was one of those naturesmature in some respects, but strangely childlike in otherswhom most of us love to stigmatize as unpractical, and who in fact never become quite accustomed to this world and its rules.

She turned slowly and went to him, her eyes childlike and frightened, her lips wide, her face pale.