They were going to leave her alone at last--those children of hers; alone in the great house, the home she had loved; in the city of her girlhood and the beloved sanctuary of maternity.
The pendant to her pretty picture is the study of elderly girlhood by Octave Thanet, or that by Miss Alice Brown, the one with its ideality, and the other with its humor.
The pathos of "The Perfect Year" is as true as either in its truth to the girlhood which "never knew an earthly close," and yet had its fill of rapture.
Lucretia grew to girlhood with habits of economy, neatness, and helpfulness in the home.
The brown curls had become snowy white, and the bright eyes of girlhood had grown deeper and more earnest.
Thus her childhood passed, and so her girlhood opened.
Standing there in her spring-like dress beside the dead woman who had been her mother, Corinna felt intuitively that Patty had left her girlhood behind her.
A tide of long-forgotten girlhood welled up in her heart, and she laughed as she floated off on it past the astonished eyes of Miss Triscoe and Burnamy.
She had hitherto been a little disappointed of the open homage to American girlhood which her readings of international romance had taught her to expect in Europe, but now her patriotic vanity feasted full.
During the long winters of my girlhood wolves had frequently slunk around our log cabin, and at times in the lumber-camps we had even heard them prowling on the roofs.
She offered no tributes after our return to the house, but her protests ceased from that time, and we gave each other the love and understanding which had marked our girlhood days.
The music had carried her back to her girlhood and to the sentiment of sixteen.
Every woman in her girlhood should learn from her mother the mission and destinies of woman, as well as what is due to society, to their families, to themselves, and to God.
My mother was affectionate and indulgent; my sisters were harsh and tyrannical, and in very early girlhood taught me to hate them.
I had an unhappy girlhood in a discordant home; early cares and losses made me old in youth, and taught me to observe how others bore their burdens.
Sylvia sat sewing in the sunshine with an expression on her face half mirthful, half melancholy, as she looked backward to the girlhood just ended, and forward to the womanhood just beginning, for on that midsummer day, she was eighteen.
So, mothers, be advised in time, and let girlhood be the healthy, happy, sunny time that Nature intended it to be.
There is another danger connected with overdoing study in the time of girlhood that must not be overlooked.
There are long, monotonous days in girlhood when one ardently wishes for something to happen to make a change; but in middle age life is full of interests, and days seem far too short for all that we should like to pack into them.
Her girlhood had been a brief pause before she had entered her fore-ordained womanhood--a mere waiting for the inevitable.
The thinness of girlhoodhad given place to a slender womanhood, all grace and charm.
When you're well, dear, I'm going to try to give you some of the girlhood you've never had.
Her voice was softened, and, taking off her spectacles, she gazed far into space; seemingly to that distant girlhood when radiant youth lent to the grey old world some of its own immortal joy.
And in place of her white satin a simple Callot gown of sage-green cloth was fastened about her girlhood the last time.
It seemed to Forbes that this magic alone, which should turn old women back to girlhood for a time, could not be altogether accursed.
The two "roues" gave him, in fine satirical style, the history of Madame Felix de Vandenesse; they drove the scalpel of epigram and the sharp points of much good wit into that innocent girlhood and happy marriage.
This fact explains Schmucke and the girlhood of the two Maries.
In the depths of this solitude where their girlhood was spent, Angelique and Eugenie seldom saw their father, and when he did enter the grand apartment of his wife on the first floor, he brought with him a saddened face.
And it was neither girlhood nor womanhood which had spoken now: it was comradeship which is possible to girlhood and to womanhood through wifehood alone: she was taking their future for granted.
I should rather write to you how, my thoughts go back to the years of our girlhood together when we were so happy, Isabel, so happy, so happy!
After the restraints of childhood at home and in school, what a period of irrepressible joy and freedom comes to us in girlhood with the first taste of liberty.
My engagement was a season of doubt and conflict--doubt as to the wisdom of changing a girlhood of freedom and enjoyment for I knew not what, and conflict because the step I proposed was in opposition to the wishes of all my family.
My heart was wrung with her, the image of a little woman with no place, no heart to go to, all her dreams of girlhood turned to ghosts, fit only to run from.
Prophet or not, his smile at the door had left something volatile within her, something like girlhood in her heart.
Indeed, she must have been a pretty girl in her youth, and, old as she was, had some of the arts of girlhood in her yet.
Rob could not realize that this was Mrs. Rutherford, not Wythie Grey, helping her, and that her own days of girlhoodwere numbered.
If girlhood is not sufficiently attractive a girl may go into beauty training for maturity.
The two attractive periods in a woman's life are girlhood and maturity.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "girlhood" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
