She is seized with periodical Fits about the Time of the Subscriptions to a new Opera, and is drowned in Tears after having seen any Woman there in finer Cloaths than herself: These are Arts of Perswasion purely Feminine, and which a tender Heart cannot resist.

Stroking his beard thoughtfully, therefore, he seated himself upon a convenient wooden chest, while Blossy slipped her old love-letter in and out of the envelop, with that essentially feminine manner of weighing and considering.

"Benevolence is a trait peculiarly feminine.

She is the Madonna type and seems to possess all the attributes of gentleness, modesty, and meekness, and angelic sweetness that are supposed to characterize the distinctively feminine woman.

The atmosphere appeared to him intensely feminine and yet strange.

In women, there is a degree of masculinity, as the adrenal in women makes for masculinity, neutralising more or less the specifically feminine influences of the internal secretions of the ovary.

The Comtesse d'Agoult was eminently feminine.

It was a singularly feminine gesture to which he resorted.

At others, it is distinctly feminine in its hairlessness, and the delicate texture of the skin, as well as in the clean-cut patterning of the features.

She hated her spare black frock, and for the second time in her life desired expensive clothes markedly feminine.

I think it was merely feminine.

We men do not expect to find in an enthusiastic, tender, and what may be called exquisitely feminine woman the quality of clear and guiding discrimination between the policy of the leader and the principles of the cause which he undertakes to lead.

"Our little republic," says one of its inmates towards the end of the book, "is firmly feminine and hasn't done much falling in love."

Mrs. Browning had nearly as much culture, was as thoughtful as she, but more genuinely feminine at the heart-core.

Some of the trees are commandingly masculine; others, though as immense, graciously feminine.

The letters on the latter's bit of pasteboard were in a feminine handprobably his mother's.

And the one thing that had robbed us of that right was my lack of courage, caused partly by my feminine mentality (do we not realize sometimes how ignobly feminine we are?), and partly by the painful spectacle of Mary's grief....

She was incontestably feminine.

Quite as unconscious of her condition as of her unconventionality in smoking, she discoursed with these diverted men, her transparent frock revealing the full beauties of her neck and bust, her handsome arms well displayedfrankly and insistently feminine, yet possessing herself without hesitation of what may be termed the masculine attitude toward life.

What she failed to realise was that, if I ventured alone into the midst of so intimately feminine a world as Bibby and Renns' for the purpose of matching stuff called Pink Georgette, I should become practically incapable of doing anything at all.

She mocked, with a ludicrously feminine croak, the hoarse voice of a crow sailing over them.

She drives, she skates, she swims, she rows, she sails, has a thorough knowledge of business, and is up in stocks, is femininely masculine and masculinely feminine, scorns novels, and can order a dinner, is a churchwoman, and dresses always in the latest style.

Fear for his sake stimulated her; but above and beyond this, indeed, there was a mighty feminine curiosity.

There were bookshelves of workmanship patently feminine in their facile decoration and structural instability, and on them an array of glittering poets, Shelley, Rossetti, Keats, Browning, and odd volumes of Ruskin, South Place Sermons, Socialistic publications in torn paper covers, and above, science text-books and note-books in an oppressive abundance.

The Eve of the Temptation has even something of positively feminine charm.