Hence, a mannish woman; a bold, turbulent woman; a termagant; a vixen.
Perhaps a mannish woman, with a shrill voice and a waspish tongue, is as bad, but she can't be worse.
There are many disagreeable things to be met with in life, but none that is much harder upon the nerves than a mannish woman.
But yet it was a figure Most like to mannish creature.
Mævia, a name put for any impudent ormannish woman.
Of every exercise the mannish crew Fulfils the parts, and oft excels us too; Prepared not only in feigned fights to engage, But rout the gladiators on the stage.
She pitied from the bottom of her heart this motherless girl who had come to her, in spite of her courage and almost mannish independence, for that sympathy and advice which, at certain moments, the strongest woman cannot do without.
Her hardihood, her mannish self-reliance, were but outer coverings, the result of the surroundings of her daily life.
A woman impudent andmannish grown Is not more loath'd than an effeminate man In time of action.
Wearing mannish clothes and doing mannish labor will never give women the same outlook upon life that men have.
I suppose it was the working of some obscure mannish vanity--of what in a woman would have defined itself as coyness and coquetry.
She was a bride then, and her husband, her brother Paul, and Theodore Vellan were bound in a league of ardent young-mannish friendship, a friendship that dated from the time when they had been undergraduates together at Oxford.
While speaking Altieri had dragged him through the crowd towards Christina, who was standing up, evidently waiting for them, and looking particularly mannish in her three-cornered hat and short skirt.
There was no mistaking the daughter of Gustavus Adolphus, with her square face and red cheeks, her disagreeable eyes and her black wig, her short green skirt and her mannish bearing.
She would seek out short-haired mannishwomen with theories and oodles of unpublished short stories, and feed them well, opening her house for their drawing-room talks.
But so ought Robin," threw in the Starling in her brusque, young mannish way.
She realized it because he stood up and squared his shoulders in an odd young-mannish way.
But even more interesting than Mr. Mildmay Vernon and his mannish selfishness was Catherine, the universal subject on which they could fraternise even with Mildmay Vernon himself.
That placid, yielding way of hers, that habit of mind which he had regarded in his mannish fashion as being altogether gelatinous and invertebrate--how ill he had construed it all.
He strode in looking as mannish and as townlike as he could, and seated himself in one of the boxes alone.
But she might get curious on other grounds, on grounds where destiny and suchlike mannish appendages did not hold up a finger at her.
The times--in his mannish view--were too great for lovers.
If the excessively womanly woman is affected in her sickly sweetness, the mannish woman is affected in her breadth and roughness.
The other girls were wont to wear severely tailored shirts, mannish ties, stocks, flat-heeled shoes, rough tweed skirts.
This deference at first embarrassed, then amused, then finally pleased him with an acute, mannish pleasure.
He felt a species of guilt in the accusation of his roommate and a sudden longing to be back among mannish pursuits.
The girl was standing by the glass case, dusting a Limoges platter with a feather brush, her mannish coat and short skirt covered with dust.
Then there swept by a jaunty dog cart, driven by a mannish figure radiantly robed in white.
Monsieur Paul was showing, with all the absorption of the artist, his latest Jumièges carvings to the taller, more awkward of the gentlemen, to the one driven in by the mannish beauty.
Instead of which you wear mannish clothes, do your hair in a Bath-bun, and permit men the privilege of equality.
If you wear mannish clothes and a Bath-bun, it is because they become you extraordinarily well and because they form a disguise more complete and mystifying than anything else you could assume.
Women," she cried, "will you give way to mannish fears?
So my wife bought a mannish hat for eighteen dollars.
Mannish women and womanish men are alike incapable of experiencing and inspiring the love-passion, which charms and transfigures life for true man and true woman.
Women, as result of like abnormal undevelopment, or after operative removal of reproductive organs (propter quos est mulier) become mannish of type.
Admirably manly or womanly, they bear but little likeness to the hereditarily-defective or to the artificially-manufactured species--mannish women and womanish men.
While mannish women, whose physiology has deteriorated to the katabolic, disruptive and forceful, male mode, possess frequently the hungry appetites of men; not only for food but for drink.
Mannish sex-characteristics in women are as abnormal and as unnatural, and arise from a similar cause as do male antlers in female deer.
So that the more mannish the Feminists become in mode and aim, the more womanish become the Effeminates.
