100 examples of womanish in sentences

In the making of it, the hammer and nails were mine by right of sex, while she stitched in womanish fashion on the fabrics.

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He had a dull foreboding of the end of the night's battle: before he went to it, he clung with a womanish affection to anything belonging to his home, as this Gaunt did.

I love the men with women's faces, and the women, if possible, with still more womanish expressions.

As a matter of course every cow-man must know something of how to cook a meal and, also, naturally and as a matter of course, Old Heck and Skinny, without the slightest thought that it was "womanish" or beneath the "dignity" of men, peeled potatoes, fried meat, washed dishes or did whatever there was to do.

He came up the Knoll on his loping trot, never stopping until he was within five or six yards of the Captain, when he suddenly halted, folded his arms, and stood in a composed attitude, lest he should betray a womanish desire to tell his story.

'Old Marlborough,' wrote Horace Walpole in March, 1742 (Letters, i. 139), 'has at last published her Memoirs; they are digested by one Hooke, who wrote a Roman history; but from her materials, which are so womanish that I am sure the man might sooner have made a gown and petticoat with them.' See ante, i. 153 'Hooke,' says Dr. Warton (Essay on Pope, ii. 141), 'was a Mystic and a Quietist, and a warm disciple of Fénelon.

The strain had been so great, both during the discussion and the visit of the Lady Marina, that there was a willingness among the senators to unbend, to throw aside serious impressions and make light of all dread, as womanish and weak, accepting the Doge's words as leaders.

When the fatal day came, the anxiety of the lady's spirits occasioned such an effervescence of blood, as threw her into, so violent a fever, that her life was despaired of, till a letter came from Mr. Dryden, reproving her for her womanish credulity, and assuring her, that her child was well, which recovered her spirits, and in six weeks after she received an ecclaircissement-of the whole affair.

And how my weak, womanish heart thrilled with sympathy to his!

"I am very glad; for, to tell the truth, my love, I fear I should have little patience with womanish caprices.

Show such a weak, such a womanish spirit?

A] so womanish.

He had a well-cut nose, a good chin, and a mouth that meant strength of purpose, though some of his friends laughed at him for a "womanish" curve of the upper lip.

For Shelley's nature is utterly womanish.

Ease, music, money-making, the affairs of his harem and the bringing-up of his children, are his chief interests, and his plump pale face with long-lashed hazel eyes, his curling beard and fat womanish hands, recall the portly potentates of Hindu miniatures, dreaming among houris beside lotus-tanks.

In the great scene where Zara surprises Almeria in the cell of Osmyn, it was astonishing how the flaxen-haired representative of the Captive Queen managed to turn her fiery rain of curses into a little pattering shower of womanish reproaches.

Always, when a card was sent up, she would gather all her womanish "traps" together and go to Mrs. Kellerthis, too, in spite of his earnest invitation to her to remain.

Perhaps the godlike hero in his breast Disdain'd, or was ashamed to show, So weak, so womanish a woe, Which yet the brother and the friend

" He seems often to have warned ladies against this essentially womanish tendency to the sentimental.

It is to check such unseemly "new-womanish" tendencies in their squaws that the Californians resorted to the bugaboo performances already referred to.

A puny little man, with thin yellow hair, and womanish face: but not the less the hero of his men,they having found out, somehow, that muscle was not the solidest thing to travel on in war-times.

It was womanish in the man, when the life of great nations hung in doubt before them, to go back so constantly to little Floy sitting in the lap of her old black maumer.

The rebellion was put down, and put down, we may say, without any unnecessary tenderness, any womanish weakness for the rebels.

She had been womanish and timorous too long; this was the great crisis which would decide her future; she must be worthy of it and of him.

100 examples of  womanish  in sentences