All this looks babyish in the writing, but there was a method in this self-examination.
How was I, with my babyish woodcraft, to contend for a moment against an Indian who was as subtle and velvet-footed as a wild beast?
The soft curve of her chin, the babyish shortness of her upper lip, and the crimson sweetness of the little earnest mouth had never seemed more lovely than they were to-day.
Presently, on the first call, an enchanting little girl In a shabby smock had come in, a little girl all dimples, demureness, and untouched babyish beauty.
She pouted, she dimpled, she dispensed babyish slaps, she lapsed into rather poorly imitated baby talk.
It was a babyish cry, a cry for his mother, for home, for warmth, for something soft and protecting to nestle up to.
Then, as if defying the feathered monster to come back and fight to the end, he pointed his sharp little muzzle up to the stars and sent forth his first babyish wolf howl into the night.
He was once more his calmly dignified self, though not a little ashamed of his babyish pranks, and mildly wondering how he had come to behave so.
The Wall Street Farmer recovered at once from his fit of babyish emotion, and motioned his dog to go on to the next post.
Pitty Sing" was indeed a pretty thing, a very doll of a woman, the flaxen hair on her small head marcelled meticulously, her little plump cheeks and pouting, babyish lips tinted with rouge.
Betsy was still clinging to her, her babyish hands shaking the slender shoulders under the green satin jacket, when Gus bounded upon the platform and took the almost hysterical child into his arms.
Sally saw the tell-tale tremble of Eloise's babyish mouth, and her heart ached with desire to comfort the child.
Sally stooped and pressed her lips, through the fence opening, against the babyish mouth of little Eloise Durant, the newest and most forlorn orphan of them all.
For those lips are almost babyish in their curves, the lips of a man who would drink the cold pure water of life in preference to its coloured vintages, the lips of an idealist.
Bruno, the big actor, was so babyish that it was easy to send him off in brute sulks, banging the door.
The Child held on her arm, droops his head, heavy with sleep, upon her arm in a babyish and appealing attitude curiously opposed to the dignity of the Child in Mantegna's group which hangs on the opposite wall.
The two children are babyish in figure and expression and the little dog is more serious than is his wont upon these occasions.
Something rose up from his bony little chest, and grew in his throat, until it was a babyish snarl so low that no human ears could hear it.
Here Peter suddenly stopped, with his nose to the ground, and then his legs stiffened, and for the first time the girl heard the babyish growl in his throat.
Her gown is snow-white, with just a touch of black at the throat and wrists; a pretty frill of soft babyish lace caresses her throat.
Well, she will certainly look younger; she has such a little, fresh, babyish rose-bud of a face.
Don’t let me hear you make that babyish blunder again.
She was a pretty girl with curly light hair and wide open eyes of an innocent babyish blue.
He put out his small brown hand on which babyish dimples still lingered, and the old man grasped and shook it solemnly.
He stopped short and looked down into thebabyish blue eyes uplifted timidly to his.
How they pounded and cried, those amusing, sophisticated, babyish Parisians!
When he went to school he began to be afraid that people would think that babyish if they noticed it, and he used to leave them among the ice, though somehow they always did get left to the last.
They clung to each other, weeping, and he said things into her neck that were far more babyish than usual and yet fiercely manly, and they almost melted into each other in the hot flow of loving tears.
It is that meek, silvery gold color that usually has neither kink nor curl, but in her case it curled riotously, broke out at the nape of her neck in absurd babyish ringlets and at her temples.
But there was that about the still babyish lines of her mouth which showed me that she longed to be away by herself and have a good cry.
How any girl of eighteen could be so babyish and helpless as she was was a revelation to them.
She looked so young and babyish and helpless that Nyoda made up her mind on the spot that she was not the kind of girl who could be left on her own resources.
At first sight I confess that I was not favourably impressed--she is such a childish-looking little thing, with fluffy, babyish hair curling over her head.
When he was a mere child of eighty, his babyish attempts to understand the Voice were more dangerous than the wrath of Cain.
It would be painful to me to go back from that rhythm to your babyish gambols: in fact I could not do it if I tried.
The scent was followed by a whimpering, babyish chatter.
The babyish cry and its effect upon Gray Wolf taught Kazan his first lesson in fatherhood.
A porcupine entered the opening and proceeded to advance in its foolish fashion, still chattering in that babyish way that has made its life inviolable at the hands of man.
He did not fondle them, as Gray Wolf did, but the touch of them, and their babyish whimperings, filled him with a kind of pleasure that he had never experienced before.
His big, old, gnarled hands shook as they rested on the sill, his underlip trembled and drooped like a child's, babyish tears gathered in his eyes.
After talking of its 'bright coronet,' the ditty is wound up with this piece of babyish absurdity.
And what if the little dumpling Elsa, with her red cheeks and her babyish eyes, did run in and out.
With such babyish words she talked the frowns off my face, or, when they would not go fast enough, hastened them by reaching up and smoothing them away with her finger.
Oh yes, please do bring the Indian maiden with you," she remarked with an innocent, babyish expression that fooled her Aunt but not her visitors.
She wore a blue riding suit and a big Mexican hat like Jack's and her face looked very young and babyish under it.
