When thou hast heard his name upon The bugles of the cherubim, Begin thou softly to unzone Thy girlish bosom unto him, And softly to undo the snood That is the sign of maidenhood.
To her, that earnest voice was sweet, And, though her love had no confessor, Her girlish heart lay at the feet Of that particular professor.
He means that he still thinks me engaged to him," said Enid, the color hot in her girlish cheeks.
It was not the sentimental, girlish adoration that she had turned upon her first fancy, the Honourable Jim.
What's attached to the charmin' girlish voice that's delighting my ears?
They were all more or less pretty, these girlish faces.
Did it really spring from his limited observation of the feminine heart and of girlish ways, or from a deliberate artistic purpose to account adequately for Ferdinand's jealousy?
The records do not credit her with exceptional beauty, but she was sufficiently good-looking and her demuregirlish innocence appeared to Schiller very lovable.
She had found the world deranged from every girlish ideal.
The Grey One had been badly hurt in that sadly sensitive period which follows the putting away of girlish things--when womanhood is new and wonderful.
Bedient heard a girlish voice out of the precious and perilous South.
But he escaped a great danger in failing to secure her as his wife, for Rikke Holst, when she had lost her girlish freshness, would probably have had little character and no culture to fall back upon.
Yes, I knew that gate, and the girlish figure leaning over it.
I asked more gently, as I gazed down at the fragile and girlish body huddled together in the chair.
Yet, knowing what I did, itsgirlish weariness took on a pathos indescribably poignant.
The face is the purest expression ofgirlish loveliness possible to art.
And the saucy antiphon of girlishvoices responds,-- "A man may be bearded and gray, But a woman can fool him still!
From the hour of her first girlish vows that love had possessed her heart and mind, had been growing day by day in depth and power.
Never wasgirlish indiscretion atoned by so terrible an expiation as that living death of thirty desolate years.
Irene is to my mind the very incarnation of girlish loveliness.
This gives a new aspect to her, while the girlish impression still remains, and is strangely combined with the sense that this frolicsome maiden has the material for the sober bearing of a wife.
The countess was a beautiful and accomplished woman of the world, with a real heart left in her still, but not quite the sort of tender, shrinking, girlish heart that Harry wanted.
We can enjoy first love but once in a lifetime; let us enjoy it now while we can, and not fling away the chance prematurely by mere childish haste and girlish precipitancy.
Rousing up suddenly, imagine my surprise to see sitting, chin on knees, about a yard away, a slender girlish figure, infinitely out of place in that world of rough barbarians.
Beautiful eyes were they when, in all their girlish fearlessness and innocence, they first beamed upon our old friends of the --th in the days of exile in Arizona.
She has lost none of the girlish delicacy of expression which was so marked a characteristic of her youthful beauty a year before, still she has rounded somewhat, and both mentally and physically has developed.
Juana peered over and then drew back, a fierce triumph on her girlish face; for she had seen that there were two enemies the less.
A shudder ran through the girlish frame at the sound of that word, more hateful and terrible to the party of freedom than any other which could be spoken.
Some one had looked up, and had seen the two girlish figures clinging together.
Her mother's joking reference about her girlish resolution not to marry a soldier often recurred to him.
The daughter had what he defined vaguely as girlish piquancy.
Carry walked across the room with a gentle dignity, which yet was very unlike the shy brightness of her old girlish aspect, and held out to him a thin hand.
Her girlish freshness was gone, her animation subdued, the intellectual eagerness quenched in her eyes.
He was very much in love with her, and Katharine’s girlish instinct was right, for he had come with the determined purpose of asking her to be his wife.
With a movement that was almost girlishhe dropped upon one elbow, and raising her diaphanous hand in his, tapped his own pale cheek with it.
That sort of school-girlish friendship doesn’t amount to anything when you begin to grow up.
Her last action had brought her into abrupt contact with a girlish figure, whose countenance she might have recognized had not the dusk so deepened.
She placed both elbows on the rough balustrade of the bridge, leaned her fair girlish chin against both hands, and stared straight before her across the bleak heath.
I hardly knew whether she would refuse it, or burst out crying--in girlish fashion.
Her girlish ladyship at last got tired of silks and ribbons, and stood with me at the shop-door, amusing herself with commenting on the passers-by.
Bright, even with the prettiest girlish blush, when John came up to his wife and admired her--as indeed was not surprising.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "girlish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
