23 examples of woman-child in sentences

R I. KELLER 1910 TO HELEN CONTENTS CHAPTER I. THE BIRTH OF A WOMAN-CHILD II.

CHAPTER I THE BIRTH OF A WOMAN-CHILD "Whose cradle's that?"

when the longed-for soul entered the world it was housed in a woman-child's body, and straightway the joy was changed into mourning.

" "Ah! my beloved woman-child, I know Your many-sided nature far too well To judge you or condemn you by one act, Born of a frenzied moment of despair; When the true Gwendolaine has time to think, Naught I could urge would keep her, though she came.

But oh! the woman-child she bare Was now the demon's prey.

But he had seen times of plenty, too, when the meat spoiled on their hands, and the dogs were fat and worthless with overeatingtimes when they let the game go unkilled, and the women were fertile, and the lodges were cluttered with sprawling men-children and women-children.

Yes, the first point I wish to make is that a woman-child, once baptised Margaret, is thereby insured of a suitable name.

A woman-child is an odd thing.

She was the same frank, affectionate, merry, puzzling woman-child that she had been at first; yet as he saw more and more how much she knew of books which he did not know, of people, and of affairs of which he had never heardhow fluently, graciously, and even wisely she could talk, he felt himself cut off from her.

THE COMING OF THE WOMAN-CHILD XXV.

When he had picketed his horse he went in and had her brought to him,a fresh little flower-like woman-child, with hair and eyes that told of her mother, with reminders of her mother's ways as she stood before him, a waiting poise of the head, a lift of the chin.

He picked up the now sputtering candle, set in its hole bored in a block of wood, and held it up for a last look at the little woman-child.

The Coming of the Woman-Child The next day he sent across the settlement for the child, waiting for her with mixed emotions,a trembling merge of love and fear, with something, indeed, of awe for this woman-child of her mother, who had come to him so deviously and with a secret significance so mighty of portent to his own soul.

The Coming of the Woman-Child The next day he sent across the settlement for the child, waiting for her with mixed emotions,a trembling merge of love and fear, with something, indeed, of awe for this woman-child of her mother, who had come to him so deviously and with a secret significance so mighty of portent to his own soul.

He was glad, moreover, to know that she made an admirable mother to the little woman-child.

But I can remember nothing about it, except that there was a sister who neglected her little brothers, and hence defeated the first object of existence in a woman-child.

There were born every day, she reflected, such hosts of women-children, who were not princesses, and therefore compelled to marry detestable kings.

In the Thirty-First Chapter of Numbers, in speaking of the spoils taken from the Midianites, the live stock is thus summarized: "Five thousand sheep, threescore and twelve thousand beeves, threescore and one thousand asses, and thirty-two thousand women and women-children," which Moses said the warriors might keep for themselves.

Sita's devotion is a household word to many a woman-child of India.

I bent over him and lifted his head, while the sweet woman-child knelt and covered his face with kisses, calling in a voice like that of a tiny girl speaking to her doll, "Bob, my Bob, wake up, wake up; your Beulah wants you."

All agreed that the woman-child wife would never grow older unless through some mental eruption beyond human power to produce.

Under the very nose of the doctor's great horse stood a little woman-child, staring straight up at the huge red head above her.

Even that she bore her father had not ripened into the grand love of the woman-child.

23 examples of  woman-child  in sentences