22 examples of girlishness in sentences

No, I cannot trust my pen, nor would any such description do her justice; for her charm lay not in beauty only, but in a certain rare, sweet girlishness, which seemed to form a nimbus round her.

But also I felt curiously stricken by that swift withdrawal of her confidence, for Mrs. Caroline Lansdale had won me by her laugh and blush of ancient girlishness.

" A faint smile curved her lips and shone in her eyes, and Stafford was so fascinated by the sudden gleam of girlishness that he had to bend and pat Bess, who was planting dusty impression on his trousers in her frantic efforts to gain his attention.

He had kept his eyes on her slim bust and tight-girded waist that sprung suddenly neat and smooth out of the curving skirt-folds, and it had not occurred to him to exclaim even in his own heart: "With your girlishness and your ferocity, your intimidating seriousness and your delicious absurdity, I would give a week's wages just to take hold of you and shake you!"

And she felt acutely her slightness, her girlishness, and her need of his help.

In the agonizing silence she felt acutely her girlishness, her helplessness, her unreason, confronted by his strong and shrewd masculinity.

Despite her reason, she had a fear that numbers of people would perceive her to be newly affianced and remark upon the contrast between her girlishness and his maturity.

And she found that tears were running down her cheeks; and she felt all her girlishness and fragility.

The sight of her worn, saddened features sharpened Hilda's appreciation of her own girlishness and inexperience.

She had deserted, as she grew old, the novel for unfulfilled prophecy; and was a distinguished leader in a distinguished religious coterie: but she still prided herself upon having a green head upon grey shoulders; and not without reason; for underneath all the worldliness and intrigue, and petty affectation of girlishness, which she contrived to jumble in with her religiosity, beat a young and kindly heart.

She had never lost the girlishness of her figureor of her hands.

What he did not comprehend and could not represent was woman in her girlishness, her youthful joy, her physical attractiveness, her magic of seduction.

Her beauty alone, the purity of her eyes, the freshness of her lips, and the slender girlishness of her figure, might have made him say twenty, but with those things he had found the maturer poise of the woman.

He looked into her face, moved by the girlishness and appeal about the red, wistful mouth and the dark, brimming eyes.

All girlishness was gone out of her voice.

She was still to the outer eye the slight, brown Winona of twentyperky, birdlike, with the quick trimness of a winging swallow, a little sharper featured perhaps, but superior in acuteness of desire and persistence, and with some furtive, irresponsible girlishness lurking timorously back in her bright glance.

He would never read it now; or perhaps he should read it in memory of her, of her whom yesterday he parted with on the hills,her little puritan look, her external girlishness, her golden brown hair and the sudden laugh so characteristic of her....

She was never known to bring herself to pronounce "that woman's" name or to admit her girlishness.

Gentleness, modesty, domesticity, girlishness, coyness, kindness, patience, tenderness, benevolence, sympathy, self-sacrifice, demureness, emotionality, sensitiveness, are feminine qualities, some of which, it is true, we expect also in gentlemen; but their absence is not nearly so fatal to a man as it is to a woman.

Her apparently invincible girlishness of spirit had given way to a certain matronly seriousness.

A certain girlishness of height and outline may have been emphasized by her juxtaposition to Pickering’s heavy figure.

Something of youth, something of girlishness, yet dwelt within her and bounded to the surface in response to the wild excitement of the chase.

22 examples of  girlishness  in sentences