[303] [A very unusual phrase, which seems to be used here in the sense of masculine passions or properties.]

The word is frequently used to signify masculine.

But this particular duty is one requiring qualities which are more essentially feminine than masculine.

A frivolous slave of dress and ornament can no more belong to the circle of which I now speak, than can a pushing, masculine woman to the sphere which she occasionally usurps.

She was too impetuous, impulsive, and masculine for him.

Every page is masculine in power, every sentence is condensed thought, every line burns with passion; yet every sentiment betrays the woman, seeking to reveal her own boundless capacities of admiration and friendship, to be appreciated, to be loved with that fervor and disinterestedness which she was prepared to lavish on the object of her adoration.

Masculine in the force and vigor of her understanding, she was feminine in all her instincts,proper, amiable, and gentle; a woman whom everybody loved and everybody respected, even to kings and queens.

She recognizes the eternal distinction between the sphere of a man and the sphere of a woman, without admitting any inferiority of woman to man, except in physical strength and a sort of masculine power of generalization and grasp.

True, she accepted the penalty without complaint, and labored to the end of her days, with masculine strength, to enforce a life of duty and self-renunciation on her readers,to live at least for the good of humanity.

She liked him all the better for that frank outburst of manlike ill-temper which, after all said and done, was only a very flattering form of masculine jealousy.

Behold, two Masculines espous'd each other, Wit and the World were born without a Mother.

Early indeed did Caesar's trials commence; and it is probable, that, had not the death of his father, by throwing him prematurely upon his own resources, prematurely developed the masculine features of his character, forcing him whilst yet a boy under the discipline of civil conflict and the yoke of practical life, even his energies might have been insufficient to sustain them.

The fair sex raises its voice against tobacco and other masculine sedatives, but clings pertinaciously to this delusion.

What would be showing a sweet, delightful, and fully masculine weakness CHANTECLER

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.

"Pardon me," she interrupted him, her masculine little chin high in the air, "but I wish you wouldn't call me that.

His prose style was charmingclear, masculine, and to the point.

Mary had not forgotten that unlucky story about the fox-hunt, and ever since Hammond's return she had been as it were on her best behaviour, refraining from her races with the terriers, and holding herself aloof from Maulevrier's masculine pursuits.

It is a shock to my nerves every time I receive a letter in Mary's masculine hand, instead of in your lovely Italian penmanship.

And while masculine youth strove and wrestled for places in the race, aunts and sisters and cousins were pressing into the same arena, doing their best to crowd out the uncles and the brothers and the nephews.

Not of the Popish sort, abject and effeminate, but of the true, human, evangelic sort, masculine and grandlike the figures in Raffaelle's Cartoons compared with those of Fra Bartolomeo.

Without possessing any of that practical, masculine knowledge of women, which Taquisara so roughly expressed, Gianluca had a keen and sure understanding of the feminine mind.

By the addition of ess, ix, or ine, or the changing of masculines to feminines so terminating: as, heir, heiress; prophet, prophetess; abbot, abbess; governor, governess; testator, testatrix; hero, heroine. II.

how popular that will be with poor masculines!

"Dazzling, by God!" whispered some of the masculines that stood apart, and there were others that spoke not a word, but stood spell-bound at her majestic mien.