The bailiff's puffy face turned crimson and took a dejected, womanish expression.
He got up quickly on to his knees and, shrinking as though from the cold, nervously thrusting his hands into his sleeves, he muttered in a rapid womanish gabble: "Lord save us and have mercy upon us!
It was a welcome intrusion, this, on the sour trend of his thoughts, and he, who had shown mostwomanish among them, was now the leader of them all.
And it is to this opinion that we owe all those various and horrid kinds of lamentation, that neglect of our persons, that womanish tearing of our cheeks, that striking on our thighs, breasts, and heads.
To these may be added a kind of womanish superstition, in imagining that when they have been stricken by the afflictions sent by the gods, to acknowledge themselves afflicted and humbled by them is the readiest way of appeasing them.
You have given me a home, when it is no easy matter for such as I am to earn one, with my old-womanish ways and my old-fashioned knowledge.
It was scarcely judgment on my part--rather a womanish dread.
I should have wept enough and complained too much, in womanish fashion, doubtless; but I tell thee earl Thomond's daughter would not have grudged it.
The expression of those eyes was strangely out of keeping with his somewhat womanish figure, and gave it something far more serious than could be guessed at first sight.
I am not joking," Porfiry whispered, but this time there was not the look of old womanishgood nature and alarm in his face.
My heart was drawing back, drawing me back With weak and womanish scruples.
My heart was drawing back, drawing me back With womanish pulls of pity.
Year after year, until his mother died, he never failed in his kindness towards her, and the old dame was wont to express a kind of comic surprise at the womanish demeanour of her son.
The Englishmen who live in quiet places have not become cowardly, so far as is ascertained; nor are they liable to womanish panic.
In all such cases the pretended transformation of a man into a woman would be intelligible if we supposed that the womanish priest or king thought himself animated by a female spirit, whose sex, accordingly, he felt bound to imitate.
The intrepid Marshal Biron disgraced his exit by womanish tears and raging imbecility; the virtuous Erasmus, with miserable groans, was heard crying out, Domine!
As for the silly letter prefixed to the decree, the reformer wrote, it is a feeble production full of womanish fury: "He pretends to the sole possession of wisdom.
It would seem, however, that the most relentless enemy could scarcely have complained that any womanish indulgence had been shown to the persons singled out to expiate the crime of posting the placard against the mass.
Never had Aldous felt the clutch of hands like those of the womanish hands of Culver Rann.
His hands, as he made a gesture toward Quade, were of womanish whiteness.
So that the more mannish the Feminists become in mode and aim, the more womanish become the Effeminates.
Admirably manly or womanly, they bear but little likeness to the hereditarily-defective or to the artificially-manufactured species--mannish women and womanish men.
The other iswomanish and pretty; and for the most part frail.
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.
And in good faith, for aught that I can see, even that same womanish mind of hers is the greatest commodity that men reckon upon in offices of authority.
It was not womanish pity for the men who were taken off to work, but regret for the consequent disappearance of immemorial forms of tribal life.
A man may have several hundred of these ropes on his head all tied together behind, giving a somewhat womanish appearance.
After guarding marriage with this modesty and reserve, he was equally careful to banish empty and womanish jealousy.
Nor was he himself without some suspicion and fears; for he never before discovered anywomanish superstition in Calpurnia, whom he now saw in such great alarm.
Her stubborn old-womanish temper makes her ordinarily unjust to her best impulses and hypocritical about her worst ones.
The womanish face under the band of the skull-cap broke into a smile which was not altogether angelic.
Never had Nettie been so near breaking down, and falling into sudden womanish tears and despair.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "womanish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
