That is one of the few ladylike accomplishments I have been able to master; and even that is open to objection as being too masculine.
I suppose if I were ladylike and proper, I should protest that I like you immensely; that there is no one in the world, my mother excepted, whom I like better.
In all of these positions, Clotelle sustained herself in a most ladylike manner.
Vulgar curiosity is always in search of its victims, and Jennings' boast that he had such a ladylike and beautiful woman in his possession brought numbers to the prison who begged of the jailer the privilege of seeing the slave-trader's prize.
Mrs. Mount was intent upon the right moment to run the gauntlet for the tickets; and had it been otherwise, would have seen nothing remarkable in her charge being accosted by a nice-looking ladylike girl.
I think it is more ladylike to act uprightly,' said Gillian.
She does justice to her classical extraction, and is modest and ladylike besides.
She is ladylikeand very beautiful--" "Come, Fanny!
I know that you can like no one that is not ladylike and good.
She is also being asked to be very lily-handed and ladylike and dainty about it all.
No Anglo-Saxon (thank God) is too ladylike not to have a bit of the warrior woman left in her blood.
Hardly a ladylike admission,' replied the Fräulein, who felt that with Lady Mary her chief duty was to reprove.
And I am glad we seemed ladylike and I hope you'll do us the justice to say we have got back to our ma's--or the equivalent.
She was ladylike in tone and manner, showing evidence of gentle teaching and association.
We've thought of her as just a sweet and gentle ladylike person, when all the while she's been a heroine.
It was not often that her manner forsook its ladylike suavity.
A dark, haughty, ladylike girl, clad in rustling black silk, stood up and faced the door as they entered.
She's as pretty a young lady, and as ladylike a one as I ever seed.
And then she was dressed so bewitchingly--not in gaudy contrasts, or in the extreme of the mode, but so neatly and in such a ladylike manner that she must have attracted even wiser heads than his.
She looked very refined and ladylike as she stood there in the shaded dining-room, clad in a light morning dress.
Her ladylike manner evidently impressed the lady to whom she applied.
Now, wouldn't it be more ladylike for you to try to put me at my ease?
He was glad she had had the ladylike tact not to look at him during the episode; he wouldn't have liked any human being to see the look he knew his face was wearing.
Where would he find a more ladylike person--or where one who was at the same time so attractive?
That's a very ladylike performance for two men to be engaged in," said he.
She waits very patient and ladylike until about eleven o'clock in the morning, and if I ain't made good by then, she just pulls up her leg hobble by the roots and drops in on me to find out what's the meaning of the delay.
She was as composed, as dignified, as essentially ladylike as Clyde herself.
For such abandoned miscreants hangin' is too domladylike a punishment.
She calls them principles--but Aunt Mitty says, and I suppose she's right, that it would have been more ladyliketo have borne her wrongs in silence instead of shrieking them aloud.
She was not less than ladylike in self-possession, but Mr. Wyvern's towering sableness clearly awed her a little.
Tolerable taste and handiness with her needle had always kept Alice rather more ladylike in appearance than the girls of her class are wont to be, but such comparative distinction no longer sufficed.
It was not that Mrs. Burns was tired or sad, but in that part of the East from which she had come, all the better people spoke in weary voices of ladylike weakness.
Sophy is a quiet, modest, ladylike girl, and I am greatly interested in her.
It's the ladylike appearance and talk more than anything else.
There'll be a club-room, like at headquarters, and we shall want some one ladylike to sit there and answer questions.
The fifteen pounds had been accepted in an honourable and ladylike manner by the elder sister--but without any overpowering expression of gratitude.
Dolores thought her own dignified manner had kept off a kiss, not knowing that Miss Hacket was far too ladylike to be over-familiar, and that there was no need to put on such a forbidding look.
At first I was extremely pleased with her ladylike air, and it was a satisfaction, on coming to follow her lines, to see how good they were and how far they could lead the pencil.
She lent herself especially to positions in which the face was somewhat averted or blurred, she abounded in ladylike back views and profils perdus.
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