inner woman
Example Sentences
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"Ma'áni-há," lit. her meanings, i.e. her inner woman opposed to the formal-seen by every one.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 04 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
There was something in the very sounds of such words which was appalling to the inner woman.
From Orley Farm by Anthony Trollope
The eyes, deep, dark, and mystical gave no clue to the inner woman; but the mouth, while it was tender in its curves, had a rigidity of purpose in its expression that fixed the attention.
From Joyce of the North Woods by Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa) Comstock
All that splendid faith, which is exactly to the inner woman what courage is to the physical woman, had slipped away from me.
From All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
At least such reticence to self is often sincerely and plausibly asserted by the very inner woman.
From The Seeker by Harry Leon Wilson
