This remark did not surprise me as it would have a few weeks before, for I had come to learn that Gwen was liable at any time to suddenly evince a very unfeminine depth of observation and firmness of philosophical grasp.
Narrow indeed is the boundary which divides unfeminine flippancy from the graceful nonsense which good authority and our own feelings pronounce to be "exquisite.
I was able to kill the unfeminine one scientifically without emotion or regret.
And how unfeminine were it in her to raise her gentle voice amid the storm of debate, or to rush into the heat and strife of partizan politics!
And a more unfeminine spirit than it discovered, I have never known in one of her sex.
Her sketches after nature are admirable; but her observations and inferences are coloured by her peculiar and rather unfeminine habits of thinking.
It was impossible to help laughing at the funny conflict between Laurie's chivalrous reluctance to speak ill of womankind, and his very natural dislike of the unfeminine folly of which fashionable society showed him many samples.
They don't wear stays, and they do wear trousers; so she will be unfeminine enough, even for you.
Marjory Falconer was by no means so rude and unfeminine as she gave herself credit for being, and had bitter compunctions of outraged delicacy sometimes, after those masculine speeches, which revenged her womanhood completely.
You may be thankful it was my indecorous, unfeminine self, and not any of the proprieties.
Her conduct was never stained by unfeminine cruelty.
But it was unfriendly, nayunfeminine in her to say so when she must have known how much I was giving up.
She was tall, but not so tall as to be unfeminine in her height.
Yet, when pressed, the Easy Chair's interlocutor admitted that there was nothing more essentially unfeminine in the practice of medicine by a woman than in the recitation of Shakespeare for the entertainment of a miscellaneous crowd.
It was, she considered, a disgusting andunfeminine practice.
Away, away with this unfeminine acceptance of the worst.
You must admit," Aunt Paget went on, "there's something unfeminine about sculpture.
It was not thought unfeminine to speak good Latin, write correct Greek, or translate from Hebrew.
Take care, it is very unfeminine and disagreeable to be devoid of nonsense.
And you are above wanting to silence them by palaver about unfeminine publicity?
The craze for excitement and for unfeminine publicity of life has possessed her, to the temporary exclusion of many of the sweeter and more modest qualities which were once distinctively her own.
But if they want to try their hand at the better paid work of the liberal professions--oh, very unfeminine indeed!
It used to be thought unfeminine for women to be students and to aspire to the arts--that bring fame and fortune.
But nobody has ever said it was unfeminine for women to do the heavy drudgery that's badly paid.
Shall a woman be flayed alive because it is unfeminine in her to fight for her own skin?
She was in truth sick at heart of violence and rough living and unfeminine words.
Will it be thought unfeminine or obtrusive, if I add yet a few words?
Yet such is the reflected glory she derives from the Sydneys and the Raleighs, the Walsinghams and Cecils, the Shakspeares and Spensers of her time, that we can scarce look beyond it, to stigmatise the hard unfeminine egotism of her character.
When she was dressed a man's linen waistcoat with a black silk watch-fob hanging from the pocket added further to the unfeminine tout ensemble.
