inner woman

Example Sentences

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It puzzled me then, but I know now, that there was undoubtedly some sudden soul shock, some prophetic apprehension, which my inner woman trembled before, and which my physical woman could only interpret by tears.

From All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

Yet it was the revealing of the inner woman, rather than the withering of the exterior, which betrayed her years. 

From An Ambitious Man by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

There was something in the very sounds of such words which was appalling to the inner woman.

From Orley Farm by Trollope, Anthony

Also she wished time to dress herself carefully and solitude to get the inner woman under control.

From A Singer from the Sea by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

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 Comstock, Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa)