She looked upon talking politics as a masculine diversion, which consisted in bandying violent assertions about Mr. Gladstone.
By this arrangement Mr. Hayes was able to rule his womankind, and to deny the superiority of his masculine acquaintances.
Strolling on under the trees they met three masculine figures, laughing and talking loudly.
You might go to hell and see," Beverley suggested, and they both laughed in sheer masculine contempt of a predicament too grave for anything but grim mirth.
Beverley soon mastered Alice's tricks and showed her that, after all, masculine muscle is not to be discounted at its own game by even the most wonderful womanly strength and suppleness.
Such a confession carries with it into an honest masculine heart a sense of contending responsibilities.
Her masculine features repelled me every time I lifted my eyes towards her face to listen to what she said to me.
There is no air of literary effort, no tincture of antiquated style, in these masculine utterances.
Bartholomews, are among the most nauseous products of a masculine nature blessed with robust health.
I was digging in my trunks in search of my frock-coat, the only masculine attire in Persia that is considered decent, and without which no respectable man likes to be seen.
Ample trousers, the usual long shirt and Afghan boots (which are not unlike European military boots), made up the attire of the masculine members of the community.
Lynn hesitated; she had a truly masculine aversion to tears, an aversion which had cost her many a domestic battle.
Her uncle made little objection; he cherished the common masculine delusion that women who live at home have nothing to do with their time and he thought it rather a good idea that some of this time should be occupied.
Let us admit that it has been the result of a bad masculine influence upon women, that it has been supreme because men have become philistine; but the fact remains that it has been bad.
There were female patrons of art at the Renaissance, but they were exceptions subject to the prevailing masculine taste.
Elizabeth turned, and for an instant the motherhood deep in her softened the masculine lines of her face.
Over groped in the depths of his masculine understanding.
Oh,” he said, with an awkward attempt at masculine indifference, although his eyes were blazing.
Her voice, in spite of its little Western accent, was soft and rich and lingered in his ear long after she had fallen into a silence which presented a contemptuous front to such masculine artfulness as he possessed.
Altogether apart, however, from this religious influence, civilization tends to be opposed to the growth of hair on the masculine face and especially to the beard.
In the constitution of our ideals of masculine and feminine beauty it was inevitable that the sexual characters should from a very early period in the history of man form an important element.
Under the influence of art there is a tendency for the sexual organs to be diminished in size, and in no civilized country has the artist ever chosen to give an erect organ to his representations of ideal masculine beauty.
Remy de Gourmont proceeds, however, to point out that man has his revenge after a woman has become pregnant, and that, moreover, the proportions of the masculine body are more beautiful than those of the feminine body.
On the other hand, it is said that the use of tobacco deadens the sensitiveness of the masculine nose.
It always must and always will be a failure," he says, "when a woman attempts to form a just conception of masculine character, and to put her conception into language.
The first thing that struck him was the extreme youth of the whole set, and more especially of the masculine portion of it.
There is nothingmasculine about it, says he; its charms are all feminine.
No Eastern man could be made to believe that the influence of the masculine intellect is not absolutely essential for the well-being of the female; and so it undoubtedly will be in the East as long as woman is uneducated.
As the head is masculine in type, and not that of maiden fair, this theory will scarcely meet the case.
England, of late, has been rich to excess in fine thinkers, in the departments of creative and combining thought; but there is a sad dearth of masculine thinkers in any analytic path.
That little figure with the masculineboots showed itself but by fits and flashes.
Were they, indeed, other children, or were they not the same that jostled her when she picked her way through this very slush in her clumsy masculine boots?
Mabel could no longer withhold her indignation at the obtuseness of the masculine intellect.
As the only masculine point of view available, she appealed to Mannie wistfully.
Darwin has also demonstrated that female animals often revert to the masculine type, while the reverse seldom happens.
All masculine thought and expression up to the present time has been in the language of sex, and not in the language of race; and so it has come about that the music of humanity has been set in one key and played on one chord.
He has so far read all of those words in the masculine gender only.
Abstract justice is an attribute of the masculine mind.
Such a combination of masculine intellectualism and feminine charm has been known in women of all centuries.
She was a woman bordering on the forties, with a face of masculine vigor, redeemed and effeminized, by splendid hazel eyes, the kindliest imaginable.
Men are so foolish," observed the girl, knitting her brows in sad contemplation ofmasculine idiocy.
Her quiet, black gown with its crepe trimmings, gave, even to my masculine eye an effect of correct and fashionable, yet quiet and unostentatious mourning garb.
Mr. Monroe, looking with a masculine helplessness at the gilt bauble.
When I was very young, I assumed this masculine costume for reasons which it would be tedious and useless to tell you.
In order to acquire masculine manners perfectly and to divert myself a little, I could think of nothing better than to pay court to my friend's sister.
Dolly always accepted Dave's masculine airisomeness with meek equanimity, but invariably took no notice of it.
