The golden hair, smoothly braided under her white matronly cap, was as free from grey as even our Agnes', who was flitting in and out of the winter sunshine, busy with household work in the next room.
By this time Sally had developed such a degree of matronly solicitude, that she was absolutely intrusted at times with the care of the other children.
Mrs. Thornburgh moved on, her matronly face aglow with interest.
It was too old for her both in fashion and material, but it gave her a gentle, almost matronly dignity, which became her.
She had far rather have placed her daughter immediately under some kind matronly lady in a private household; but she knew that her good friend was always eager to promise to the utmost of her possible power.
Philip saw it all; her bonny careless looks, her pretty matronly form, her evident ease of mind and prosperous outward circumstances.
Sylvia, holding out her arms to the child, who ran into them, and began patting her mother's cheeks, and pulling at the soft brown curls tucked away beneath the matronly cap.
Trix is all right in the matronly charge of Mrs. Featherbrain, and engaged ten deep to the baronet.
Years, at any rate, will irresistibly remove this peculiar charm, and gradually replace it by the graces of the matronly character.
The door was open, and the bell brought a sweet, matronlywoman to receive them.
There is something coming in the last part about her having had a dead child, which makes it yet more desirable than the existing text does that she should have that little matronly sign about her.
The design was altered in accordance with the spirit of the criticism, and we find Minerva, instead of a plump and matronly personage, the very opposite in the matter of physique.
Mrs. Wayne paused with a bridal air of important matronly responsibility.
Men are so helpless, Mother," said Amy, with a matronly air, which delighted her husband.
I wonder if you will ever grow up, Laurie," said Meg in a matronly tone.
Certainly not," she replied, standing inmatronly dignity.
She arose, advanced to the witness-stand, received the oath, and took her chair with a matronly dignity and kindly grace that aroused the sympathy and admiration of all who saw her.
She had grown stout and matronly since the days when she had advised her sister to "marry any decently rich man who would be good to her," and her views had ripened.
In this quadrille were the matronlybeauties Lady Canning, Lady Jocelyn, and Lady Waldegrave.
But he continued forward, seeming not to miss his mother, until there suddenly loomed up beside him a very fat and very matronly appearing horse.
In the stall next the last stood a brown saddle-horse, and in the last stall the matronly horse he had followed out from town.
How he missed them--even the Mexican hostler and the brown saddler and the old matronly horse--his mother by adoption!
Lord stood in need of matronly counsel, of strict chaperonage; she would have deemed it an impertinence to allow herself the most innocent remark implying such a supposition.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "matronly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: female; feminine; girlish; kittenish; ladylike; maidenly; matronly; petticoat; womanish; womanly
