Her vanity and affectation, her womanly fickleness and caprice, all had their part in the diplomatic comedies she played with the successive candidates for her hand.
Of womanly reserve or self-restraint she knew nothing.
No womanly sympathy bound her even to those who stood closest to her life.
But, as if by a strange irony, it was to this very lack of womanly sympathy that she owed some of the grandest features of her character.
Something of womanly caution and timidity perhaps backed the passionless indifference with which she set aside the larger schemes of ambition which were ever opening before her eyes.
No comfort that wealth could purchase, no contrivance that womanly ingenuity, set to work bywomanly compassion, could devise, was wanting to his sick room.
There was nothing attractive, nor womanly in this sharply-cut countenance, and her whole appearance coincided with it.
Now, dearest Lucy, why must you pay the awful penance of immediately waltzing with John, against whom your womanly instinct rebels?
Then, too, she was a consummate actress, and a being gifted with the womanly genius for charming, and therein lies sympathy.
It was part of her immense power over him, and indeed, it was no thing of the senses, but rather her womanly genius, her innate knowledge of loving.
She caused every town and village of Wirtemberg to send their chief men accompanied by their wives (the Landhofmeisterin knew the power of womanly gossip in a country, or indeed in any community) to witness the sham holocaust.
But Lillian appeared to be the thoughtful one now and with an air of dignity, very pretty and becoming, thanked her young squire in a stately manner and swept into the house, looking tall and womanly in her flowing skirts.
And Lady Trevlyn regarded him with a gleam of womanly curiosity in her melancholy eyes.
It was a simple, honest, womanly answer that she was beginning to write, when a knock interrupted her, and Clarissa came in.
She took it in her hand, examined it, handed it back to him with a smile, a very sweet and womanly smile, with just the suspicion of mist veiling her eyes.
There it is the sudden antithesis from her gentle womanly inquiry about her brothers to the sad reality she knows nothing, that strikes the magical blow, and makes the grand manner.
But though endued with beauty and youth and every womanly attribute, yet it so happened that no king asked for her hand.
Thence entering the mother's womb in the womanly season, it developeth into the embryo and next into visible life like the fruit from the flower.
I do not intend to make one effort to lessen your ugliness by womanly art; I must seek to win its pardon from the world by noble deeds and a well-spent life.
I have, bought my imperial destiny with the priceless gem of womanly innocence!
I have withdrawn the womanly veil that concealed my heart's cherished secret, and you have not renounced your unmanly suit.
It is that womanly heart which, throbbing with an anguish that no words can paint, has vanquished my head; and loud above all thoughts of my duty as an empress is the wail of my sorrow as a widow!
Not only maternal love, but womanly sympathy pleaded for her unhappy child.
Thou alone knowest how fearful to my heart is this sacrifice of womanly pride; but thou willest my humiliation, and I submit!
Never will I accept, much less seek an alliance with this cruel woman; whose throne is blood-stained and whose heart is dead to every sentiment of womanly virtue and honor!
My heart struggles against such a course, but my head approves it, and I dare not listen to my womanly scruples, for I am a sovereign.
And has your majesty then forgotten that the queen is not permitted to be waited upon by any but womanly hands?
They promised to love her; and it is but natural and womanly that they should shun the party which upholds the profligate woman who rules the King of France!
We place womanlyvirtue on a pedestal and worship it while tacitly encouraging men to destroy it.
The health of American wives, their muliebrity or womanly power, is sapped in various ways.
In many climes he had looked upon women of all shades and ages, but never upon a more clearcut, handsome face, nor a more erect, supple, and womanly figure.
It is womanly enough to starve, but unwomanly to use the brains which God has given them.
Clara was tall and thin and supple, with a graceful, womanly figure.
Yesterday she would have told him all frankly and fully; but for her yesterday was a lifetime away--a lifetime in which she had come into her heritage of womanlydignity and reserve.
When a man has had a mother like mine his standard of womanly sweetness is apt to be pitched pretty high.
They had mostly the outline of childish or womanly or manly beauty, without very distinct individuality.
I told you that I was perfectly sure, beforehand, we should find some pleasing girlish or womanly shape to fill the blank at our table and match the dark-haired youth at the upper corner.
If she sees the moon grow dim, she will let the supreme happiness of her life slip for want of womanly tact.
For a young woman to buy one, she will be faithful to her lover, and win esteem by her frank, womanly ways.
For a young woman to dream of bathing in a basin, foretells her womanly graces will win her real friendships and elevations.
There was almost womanly tenderness in these loving attentions.
Oswald also noticed, as the doctor was raising the eyelids of his patient, that his hands were of almost womanly delicacy and beauty of form.
You, with your womanly tact, will perhaps be able to gain her confidence and find out what should be done.
But that mostwomanly of women did not at all share Kilgariff’s interpretation either of his own duty or of Evelyn’s sentiment toward him.
It would be a direct affront to her womanly and maidenly pride, which she would promptly, and bitterly, and quite properly, resent.
From her mother, Anna had learned all her womanly duties.
Madame Witte moved quickly forward to follow the bent of her womanly curiosity and see who desired admittance at this unusual hour.
It came and went, and at such moments she saw the traces of it in the tightening of his lips, and longed with womanly intuition to alleviate it.
It was almost a womanly instinct, far too delicate for such a hardy nature, and dependent perhaps upon that sudden opening of his sympathies which resulted from meeting Maria Consuelo.
Sometimes I think that I'm not womanly enough--that there's too much of the man in my disposition, and that the two parts of me are always going to struggle and clash.
She seemed to be more eloquent, with the sheer eloquence of womanly emotion.
Or are you glad of the old womanly excuse for passing by the outside things, and will you now settle down to be as fine a mother as you were a chemist?
From a very early age I have felt that I was not born to the commonwomanly lot.
Accordingly, I did not look on any of the persons, brought into relation with me, with common womanly eyes.
