womanliness

Example Sentences

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Womanliness is not primness, let me be understood.

From Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out by Ryder, Annie H

I think Womanliness means only motherhood; All love begins and ends there,—roams enough, But, having run the circle, rests at home.

From Robert Browning by Dowden, Edward

Given Beauty for our standard and first goal, Goodness, Mercy, Courage, Manliness, and Womanliness, and good looks, would surely follow, and the Creator might be trusted for the rest.

From From Edinburgh to India & Burmah by Burn Murdoch, W. G. (William Gordon)

The simple fact is that Womanliness is the supreme attraction, in however fair or however frail a personality it is embodied.

From Hints for Lovers by Haultain, T. Arnold (Theodore Arnold)

"I think," says the heroine of the Inn Album, "Womanliness means only motherhood; All love begins and ends there,—roams enough, But, having run the circle, rests at home."

From Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher by Jones, Henry, Sir