As has already been suggested, her womanliness is a more prominent characteristic of Mrs. Lewes's mind than its great intellectual power. From Wordnik.com. [George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy] Reference
Lorraine was a woman of the world, with a larger mixture of the other kind of womanliness, perhaps, than was usual, and he in his perspicacity had deftly appealed to both. From Wordnik.com. [Winding Paths] Reference
What can there be more beautiful than womanliness!. From Wordnik.com. [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference
Germanic races to be the realization of the ideal of womanliness. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference
There is no conflict between capable thorough work and womanliness. From Wordnik.com. [The Canadian Girl at Work A Book of Vocational Guidance] Reference
This reverence for woman is the first and truest step towards womanliness. From Wordnik.com. [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference
We are told that true manliness and true womanliness are one and the same. From Wordnik.com. [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference
But she seemed to embody all the womanliness that had been lacking in his life. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873] Reference
The marvel of her womanliness was even more striking than the power of her oratory. From Wordnik.com. [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference
Her mood veered, and she whirled impulsively toward him, all womanliness and contrition. From Wordnik.com. [The Henchman] Reference
Any thing that takes away from modesty, refinement, gentleness, takes away from womanliness. From Wordnik.com. [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference
In Iris 'voice was a womanliness which showed his story had reached the depths of her being. From Wordnik.com. [Afterwards] Reference
As I said at first, girls, girlishness, while inferior to womanliness, is no hindrance to it. From Wordnik.com. [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference
It is this sweet and all-pervading womanliness of Miss Terry's which fascinates the onlooker. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
But girlishness, construed to mean just a love of dress and finery, does not make womanliness. From Wordnik.com. [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference
While the book pictures the rude times of war, the charm of womanliness is emphasized throughout. From Wordnik.com. [A Mother's List of Books for Children] Reference
We are still working at trying to overcome the fear that power and womanliness are mutually exclusive. From Wordnik.com. [My Journey to the Top] Reference
The little cares rasp and fret and sting the manliness and the womanliness and the godlikeness out of us. From Wordnik.com. [The Threshold Grace] Reference
And whether the overexertion be of the body or of the intelligence, it tends to destroy true womanliness. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
Ah, but she had amazing beauty, and a something that seemed of the very essence of deep-souled womanliness!. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Plains] Reference
So thinking, he unfastened the cloak of the woman whose beauty and sweet womanliness, had made him captive. From Wordnik.com. [A Heart-Song of To-day] Reference
The womanliness in both would not amount to so much as is in one bright gleam from the eye of an Evangeline. From Wordnik.com. [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference
Or, perhaps, the womanliness that had been called out to meet his passing weakness had set her on another plane. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of the East] Reference
There is a value to be placed on the very trappings of girlhood which do not in the least interfere with womanliness. From Wordnik.com. [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference
Perhaps you think that refinement and good education produce greater womanliness than ignorance and low surroundings. From Wordnik.com. [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference
Nowhere does the genuine unselfishness and sweet womanliness of the Queen show more than in her record of those days. From Wordnik.com. [Queen Victoria Story of Her Life and Reign, 1819-1901] Reference
Oh, how, girls, shall we get this womanliness into our characters, or, rather, how shall we make it shine out of them?. From Wordnik.com. [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference
Perhaps she feared that her cherished womanliness would be endangered by too close an attention to accuracy and style. From Wordnik.com. [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
This characteristic of womanliness is not that weak, unsubstantial quality which we sometimes associate with effeminacy. From Wordnik.com. [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference
But with all these resemblances of manliness to womanliness, there is a difference which all may recognize if they will. From Wordnik.com. [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference
I would not imply that womanliness does not exist in those women whom superior talents have raised above the average man. From Wordnik.com. [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference
Frau Wittich as Penelope is the very incarnation of womanliness and queenliness, and no singer could be a truer and nobler. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
Now I think the quality which so attracts is womanliness, the most desirable of all the gifts a girl is permitted to cultivate. From Wordnik.com. [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference
Vienna; it shows a charming feminine face of oval contour, with regular lines, brown eyes, and an expression of gentle womanliness. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference
Above all things there was a naturalness about her, an absence of artificiality, the emanation of a strong and vigorous womanliness. From Wordnik.com. [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference
Beyond this lies the fact that womanliness is opposed to mannishness, and that unwomanliness grows faster than its virtuous opposite. From Wordnik.com. [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference
Lowest of the low, filthy, diseased probably, her face as though the womanliness had been stamped from her by a brutal heel of iron, she yet was a woman. From Wordnik.com. [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference
But it was her face that attracted one, a pale sad face that was stamped on every feature with the impress of a determined will and of an intense womanliness. From Wordnik.com. [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference
For a moment there was some doubt what view the crowd might take of this, but her beauty, her fearlessness, and, above all, the awe inspired by her womanliness, prevailed. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880.] Reference
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