Use "girlish" in a sentence

1. They spoke with the voices of women of purpose, and even the girlish banter which sprinkled their conversations was gilded with the genuineness of heartfelt joy, lacking the trivial frivolity so mechanically tittered by other young women tiresomely and without depth

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2. His focus was so fully on those luscious, girlish

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3. This made her smile and give out a laugh that nearly became a girlish giggle; it was so endearing to him, something he hadn't heard for such a long while

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4. ” She giggled, the sort of girlish outburst he’d have never expected from her; and for a

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5. Oh, the Hero, riding toward us, if not to save us, still, to thrill our girlish heart with his presence

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6. He could ask no woman to fill Cecilia's place in his home unless he could offer her at least some of the affection and homage he had given to his girlish bride

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7. He broke into girlish giggles that made both Angie and Manda laugh

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8. girlish crushes on other aspects of life were well out of the way she

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9. Homecoming queen, cheerleader—Rachel’s popularity had been assured while Nick’s natural charm had set girlish hearts aflutter up and down the locker-lined halls

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10. ” a girlish psionic voice stated

11. Can either of you reach your girlish hands down there?”

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12. The fighters who heard that started laughing, some mocking Torvald with girlish voices

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13. ‘My name is Athene,’ she replied in a girlish voice worthy of a six-year-old

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14. her are not girlish fantasies; they are the core of the feminine heart and

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15. Persecutors lack compassion, so their victims, if they hope to survive, must immediately decide on the best defence—words, actions, or both—and then let loose! It doesn’t matter whether they win or not as long as the retaliation is coolly deliberate; not a girlish hysterical outburst! Salvaged pride will prevent psychological damage, and victimisation will probably cease

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16. Natala jerked it forth and struck blindly and with all her girlish power

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17. Men tried to sneak a peek at her as they walked by, but with her girlish charms and immature mind, Sarah didn’t even notice

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18. He heard a girlish giggle from the back of the hut

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19. With a girlish giggle, she romped into the meadow to see who was waiting for her there

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20. Matilda gave him a huge girlish grin

21. She went to give him a huge girlish hug too, but much to his relief seemed to think better of it, patting his head instead, though even that hurt a bit

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22. I wrote recently about how "motivated" I was on my quest to regain my girlish figure

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23. ” Fleet of girlish foot we ran like the wind to the knot garden and strolled through the flowered areas on the main path under the fat yellow sun

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24. Nurse whisked the hair from her shoulder and turned to face Greg with a wide, toothless, girlish grin

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25. Stephanie put a hand to her mouth to stifle an outburst of laughter, though a girlish snicker did manage to escape

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26. He couldn’t help notice that Christina had assumed the same girlish grin

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27. Those long, slender, girlish legs were deceiving in the strength and flexibility they possessed

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28. Theresa looked at Tom in a kind of small- girlish and at the same time provocative way

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29. Tracey leaned back on the sofa feeling very coy and girlish

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30. She was no more the slim, girlish mien of old but a sturdy young woman nearing thirty whose face had lost its delicacy and some but not all of its beauty

31. Her girlish face was luminous and beautiful

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32. She'd used a code; a crude, school girlish thing, but it might have been as cryptic as The Times crossword for all the success they'd had with it

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33. As if on cue I heard the front door open and my mom's girlish laugh echo off the walls

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34. still, my girlish heart, she laughed to herself and slowly, but slowly, she drifted off into a warm, satisfied, sleep

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35. “Are you flirting with me Mister Hutchinson?” she said, in a girlish tone

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36. A very few moments after that, a young woman, with a slight girlish form, a sweet spare face in which there was no vestige of colour, and large widely opened patient eyes, rose from the seat where he had observed her sitting, and came to speak to him

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37. She colored angrily, but took no other notice of that girlish sarcasm, and answered with unexpected amiability

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38. She had her doubts about it from the beginning, for her lively fancy and girlish romance felt as ill at ease in the new style as she would have done masquerading in the stiff and cumbrous costume of the last century

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39. Remembering the painted boots, she surveyed her white satin slippers with girlish satisfaction, and chassed down the room, admiring her aristocratic feet all by herself

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40. She walked up and down the long saloon while waiting for Laurie, and once arranged herself under the chandelier, which had a good effect upon her hair, then she thought better of it, and went away to the other end of the room, as if ashamed of the girlish desire to have the first view a propitious one

41. In girlish hopes and fears and shames,

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42. There was something childish about his nose, something almost girlish about his dark blue eyes

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43. Catherine and he were constant companions still at his seasons of respite and labour; but he had ceased to express his fondness for her in words, and recoiled with angry suspicion from her girlish caresses, as if conscious there could be no gratification in lavishing such marks of affection on him

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44. She certainly seemed in no laughing predicament; her hair streamed on her shoulders, dripping with snow and water; she was dressed in the girlish dress she commonly wore, befitting her age more than her position: a low frock with short sleeves, and nothing on either head or neck

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45. And being really fully as much inclined to laugh as scold---for I esteemed it all girlish vanity---I at length relented in a measure, and asked:

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46. There were running footsteps above her head and a peal of girlish laughter

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47. She entered the apartment, and seeing near her stepmother the stranger of whom she had already heard so much, saluted him without any girlish awkwardness, or even lowering her eyes, and with an elegance that redoubled the count's attention

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48. time of her first girlish beauty, a strange, friendly pity for her entered his soul

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49. And just now at Edy's words as a telltale flush, delicate as the faintest rosebloom, crept into her cheeks she looked so lovely in her sweet girlish shyness that of a surety God's fair land of Ireland did not hold her equal

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50. It was there she kept her girlish treasure trove, the tortoiseshell combs, her child of Mary badge, the whiterose scent, the eyebrowleine, her alabaster pouncetbox and the ribbons to change when her things came home from the wash and there were some beautiful thoughts written in it in violet ink that she bought in Hely's of Dame Street for she felt that she too could write poetry if she could only express herself like that poem that appealed to her so deeply that she had copied out of the newspaper she found one evening round the potherbs

51. A lad of four or five in linseywoolsey (blossomtime but there will be cheer in the kindly hearth when ere long the bowls are gathered and hutched) is standing on the urn secured by that circle of girlish fond hands

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52. (From a corner the morning hours run out, goldhaired, slimsandalled, in girlish blue, waspwaisted, with innocent hands

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53. Her eyes, however, betrayed that perfect confidence which contradicted the girlish simplicity of this modest attire

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54. generous, with pale girlish nipples, and she had a luxuriant bush of fair pubic hair

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55. Annet still retained her girlish figure, although she was now twenty-eight, and had had a child

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56. He looked at her heavy breasts and round hips, and wished for the slender limbs and girlish skin of Tilly

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57. I was scarce twelve years old, before that part which she wanted so much to keep out of harm's way, made me feel its impatience to be taken notice of, and come into play; already had it put forth the signs of forwardness in the sprout of a soft down over it, which had often fluttered, and I might also say, grown under my constant touch and visitation, so pleased was I with what I took to be a kind of title to womanhood, that state I pined to be entered of, for the pleasures I conceived were annexed to it; and now the growing importance of that part to me, and the new sensations in it, demolished at once all my girlish play-things and amusements

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58. I sat on my lopsided porch and gazed with girlish happiness at my yard dotted with resilient dandelions

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59. And, in truth, she was no longer girlish

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60. Giselle, by her fair but warm beauty, by the surface placidity of her nature holding a promise of submissiveness, by the charm of her girlish mysteriousness, excited his passion and allayed his fears as to the future

61. This new trait of girlish coquettishness made an unpleasant impression on Dolly

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62. The tranquillity of that girlish figure exasperated the feeling of perpetual struggle and strife he carried in his breast

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63. When they came back to him, he studiously drove them away, regarding them as shameful and girlish, below the dignity of a boy and a schoolboy

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64. That familiar gesture brought back into her soul a whole series of girlish and childish memories, and suddenly the darkness that had covered everything for her was torn apart, and life rose up before her for an instant with all its bright past joys

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65. She clapped her hands together with girlish enthusiasm

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66. Her voice was brisk and decisive and she made up her mind instantly and with no girlish shillyshallying

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67. Everyone knew now that, oddly enough, became her better than the determined girlish sweetness of her that Stuart Tarleton would have married her had he not been killed at Gettysburg, and

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68. It is a mere girlish outbreak which, I am sure, will not be permanent

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69. " Mary spoke from a girlish impulse which got the better of her judgment

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70. Casaubon, might have remained longer unfelt by Dorothea if she had been encouraged to pour forth her girlish and womanly feeling—if he would have held her hands between his and listened with the delight of tenderness and understanding to all the little histories which made up her experience, and would have given her the same sort of intimacy in return, so that the past life of each could be included in their mutual knowledge and affection—or if she could have fed her affection with those childlike caresses which are the bent of every sweet woman, who has begun by showering kisses on the hard pate of her bald doll, creating a happy soul within that woodenness from the wealth of her own love

71. There is often something maternal even in a girlish love, and Mary's hard experience had wrought her nature to an impressibility very different from that hard slight thing which we call girlishness

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72. Lyle ate fries for a while, squeezing packets of ketchup on the side of the plate, then salting and peppering the ketchup, then dipping each fry individually and placing it in his mouth with girlish care

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73. I opened it up, and read the rounded girlish writing:

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74. The moony, girlish state her notes had left me in, it sickened me

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75. Eugenie had seen in the furtive glance that she cast about the young man's room—that girlish glance which sees all in the twinkling of an eye—the pretty trifles of his dressingcase, his scissors, his razors embossed with gold

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76. She said this in such a sweet, girlish voice that I burst out laughing

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77. Her girlish voice was like a frigid wind blowing through my hair

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78. She evidently considered it proper to show an interest in the general conversation by smiling, but in spite of herself her eyes under their thick long lashes watched her cousin who was going to join the army, with such passionate girlish adoration that her smile could not for a single instant impose upon anyone, and it was clear that the kitten had settled down only to spring up with more energy and again play with her cousin as soon as they too could, like Natasha and Boris, escape from the drawing room

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79. He heard merry girlish cries behind some trees on the right and saw group of girls running to cross the path of his caleche

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80. ‘Just once more,’ said a girlish voice above him which Prince Andrew recognized at once

81. Besides, she had lost all the old interests of her carefree girlish life that had been so full of hope

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82. Catherine and he were constant companions still at his seasons of respite from labour; but he had ceased to express his fondness for her in words, and recoiled with angry suspicion from her girlish caresses, as if conscious there could be no gratification in lavishing such marks of affection on him

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83. She certainly seemed in no laughing predicament: her hair streamed on her shoulders, dripping with snow and water; she was dressed in the girlish dress she commonly wore, befitting her age more than her position: a low frock with short sleeves, and nothing on either head or neck

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84. And being really fully as much inclined to laugh as scold—for I esteemed it all girlish vanity—I at length relented in a measure, and asked,—‘If I consent to burn them, will you promise faithfully neither to send nor receive a letter again, nor a book (for I perceive you have sent him books), nor locks of hair, nor rings, nor playthings?’

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85. Still, she received excellent notices, among them these words of praise by Alton Cook in the New York World-Telegram and Sun: “The girl has a refreshing exuberance, an abundance of girlish high spirits

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