A pathetic feminine quality was thereby imparted to moral feeling; we were to be good for pity's sake, for the sake of a great distant deliverance from profound sorrows.
Contrasted sentiments permeate an animal's dealings with his own sex and with the other; nouns and adjectives represent this contrast by taking on masculine and feminine forms.
His piety may have seemed to us nothing but a feminine sensibility, a faculty of shedding tears on slight provocation.
In all these matters men judge in a blind way, inspired by a feminine passion that has no mercy for anything that eludes the traditional household, not even for its members' souls.
Do you remember what they said about Miss Carew--that her play was so feminine she must have done it with crochet needles?
I was the recognized office authority on good form, Catholicism, and feminine psychology.
It was a moment for feminine tact, and I exercised it, though I was no longer in awe of Mr. Hurd.
Josephine Morgan came in with a soft little feminine rush.
He gloried in her plasticity; after all, was it not among the chief of feminine virtues?
It was only by resorting to some of those feminine tricks of persuasion which the suffragists assure us are quite immoral that she succeeded in carrying her point.
As he recalled her manner of cool distinction and her polished, impersonal phrases, another feminine figure dared to flit between him and this lady of manifold merit.
The assurance that they would be read by an adoring group of feminine relatives gave wing to an imagination that was not wont to soar.
From the time Percival had been able to cast a discriminating eye, his adoring family had presented the feminine flowers of the country-side for his inspection.
Christina's fascinations do not seem to have made much impression on Henry; indeed, his taste in feminine beauty cannot be commended.
As a matter of fact Anne was at least as good looking as Jane Seymour, and Henry's taste in the matter of feminine beauty was not of a very high order.
Jo, in a fever of feminine interest and curiosity, for she could not realize it a particle.
Jo valued goodness highly, but she also possessed a most feminine respect for intellect, and a little discovery which she made about the Professor added much to her regard for him.
Naturally men desire to protect, and this becomes part of their tenderness; they admire and love the beauty of women and are attracted by the essential (or supposed essential) feminine qualities.
Youth must have its fling" is a masculine privilege denied to feminine offenders.
A feminine supernumerary was secured from the woolshed camp.
However, as chiefly happens in those feminine temperaments where the reasoning powers are stronger than the emotional, she succeeded, and bestowed all her regained energy to the support and consolation of her sister-in-law.
All the same, while the preparations for tea were proceeding he took a careful and accurate survey of his younger feminine neighbour.
He was rapidly approaching that helpless stage when, in moods of grave or gay, a man sees only the absolute perfection of his exemplar of all feminine graces.
Masculine ghost lifted, and feminine ghost struggled and pinched in a manner unmistakably human.
By that time the Ursulines abounded everywhere, sisters devoted to education, feminine missionaries in a Protestant land, who courted and pleased the mothers, while they won over the little girls.
Such was the dreadful diadem of steel and flame which these feminine demons drove into his brow.
A true Jesuit, he made his way by two different methods, now by feminine intrigue, anon by his holy utterances.
If this was the general atmosphere of feminine education, it is not difficult to understand the ferocious contempt which was poured upon Mary Wollstonecraft, who suggested that women should even take part in affairs of State.
Anybody could have told them that it was only a phase of feminine panic in the face of the unknown, necessary as sneezing.
No feminine appeal would melt that heart of stone, but perhaps the magic name of man might fix her.
The air vibrated with high feminineshrieks of joy.
With true feminine delicacy, however, she locks the secret of her passion in her own breast, and by her coyness and reserve keeps her lover for a long period in the agonies of suspense.
They are full of tender grace of expression and feminine modesty; pervaded by the deep piety to which I have alluded as a family characteristic.
Quiet days, occupied in reaching, andfeminine occupations in the house, did not present much to write about; and Charlotte was naturally driven to criticise books.
A shrillfeminine scream brought both men to their feet.
Well, anyhow, you should have known," she concluded, with truly feminine inconsistency.
The dainty moccasins hung on the wall of his room and something obtrusively feminine in their presence was, in a way, disturbing, but not altogether unpleasant.
I am convinced," she said at last, "that in all this domestic artistry there is the touch of a feminine hand.
As one must adjust one's work to a feminine body, to a feminine brain, and to distinctly feminine social relations, so one must take into account as still more determinative a woman's spiritual characteristics.
For him the click and hum of the harem machinery stops, giving way to love and laughter, but there is always feminine relief when the master departs and the household hum goes on again.
There is stout enamel ware in the basket, too, whereas we always used to carry china, feminine and fragile.
To the amateur in feminine beauty, there are few spectacles more attractive than that of an attractive woman clothed in lingerie and a hat.
The demonism of him affected her less than a conception, feminine perhaps but erroneous, of her own selfishness.
Around him "types" were sitting in armchairs and on the sofa, listening affably; from the next room came feminine laughter and the sounds of evening tea.
It is, I suppose, a want of independence in the feminine character that makes most women follow some particular man.
I shall never forgive her," Mrs. Rooke retorted, with true feminine inconsequence.
Optima, Miselle, and Madame, applying themselves to eggs and toast with that calm confidence in a masculine decision so sustaining to the feminine nature.
The celebrated actresses whom he takes for his heroines sparkle with feminine liveliness of mind.
