38 examples of womanliness in sentences

It was a theatre where free farcical pieces were produced, and on its walls were posted huge portraits of its "star," a carroty wench with a long flat figure, destitute of all womanliness, and seemingly symbolical of perversity.

This womanliness in her never failed to delight him, for it showed she was still his wife, buried as it were in the carcase of a beast but with a woman's soul.

have you no touch of womanliness in you, no sense of shame" She swept him aside with a gesture, and advancing to Stafford, looked straight into his eyes.

That a woman could be clever as men are clever, and also be graceful, adorned, and tender with womanliness, he had not supposed.

Take care, then, of the little children: the men children, to make men of them; the women childrenoh, yes, even above allto make ready for future motheringto snatch from the evil that works over against pure womanliness.

Carlotta was prettier than ever with a new sweetness and womanliness which her love had wrought in her during the year.

At the sound of the closing door she had glanced up, and then, at the sight of the king, she sprang to her feet and ran towards him, her hands out, her blue eyes bedimmed with tears, her whole beautiful figure softening into womanliness and humility.

It seems to me, if there is any profession a woman could follow without losing her womanliness, it is that of doctor.

My latent womanliness arose and pointed this out so plainly that I seized my pen and wrote: DEAR HAROLD, I will not get a chance of speaking to you in the morning, so write.

To despise the petty arts of womanliness, to trust to the sanity of man.... "To awake like the foolish virgins," she said, "and find the hour of life is past!" Her face, her pose, softened into self-pity.

One of the images which, on these occasions, recurs oftenest to George Eliot's friends is that of the frail-looking woman who would sit with her chair drawn close to the fire, and whose winning womanliness of bearing and manners struck every one who had the privilege of an introduction to her.

" As has already been suggested, her womanliness is a more prominent characteristic of Mrs. Lewes's mind than its great intellectual power.

We recognize the second and more special quality of womanliness in the tone and point of view; they are novels written by a woman, an Englishwoman, a gentlewoman; no signature could disguise that fact; and because she has so faithfully (although unconsciously) kept to her own womanly point of view, her works are durable.

The very coloring and the arrangement of the hair were changed subtly to express, not the skill of high-priced beauty-doctors and of fashionable hair-dressers, but the instinctive care of womanliness.

In Graduation (CHATTO AND WINDUS) there is an essential femininity about Miss IRENE RUTHERFORD McLEOD'S style and general attitude that imposes limitations; it is a quality that shows itself not only in her plot, but in her characters, the three reputed males who figure therein being as fine examples of true womanliness as you need wish to meet.

She held fast to the German spirit through all the changes in her life, with the same determination which made it possible, in her strenuous labors, to retain her gentle womanliness.

The preaching of "religion," "womanliness," and the "holy fire of divine enjoyment" makes an unedifying mélange: "The holiest thing in any human being is his own mind, his own power, his own will;" "You do all according to your own mind, and refuse to be swayed by what is usual and proper."

The womanliness of your soul, aside from minor peculiarities, consists in its regarding life and love as the same thing.

She would not be the famous lecturer, the gifted writer, the leader of the Sanitary Commission in the West; a brilliant illustration of the work a woman may do in the world, and still retain the truest womanliness.

I hope you don't care much," all her pride and womanliness was roused and she answered promptly: "Of course, I don't care; do you think I would wish to marry Judge Markham if I were not all over that childish affair?

There, as in the dance halls, the "White Slaver" plies his trade, and the destroyer of womanliness lays his nets.

But if the petticoats were full of starch, the voice was full of pathosand the dignity, simplicity, and womanliness of Mrs. Charles Kean's Hermione could not have been marred by a far more grotesque costume.

There was more ideality than passionate womanliness in her interpretations.

There is a sweet, sedate, and almost solemn womanliness about her, which even overawes Mrs. Stanley, conscious of aunthood and strongmindedness, and insisting upon it that her niece is "a mere child."

With unaffected womanliness she rearranged her slightly disordered hair as he drew up beside her.

38 examples of  womanliness  in sentences