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    womanly


    1. They prided themselves on the professions they pursued without regret, nor with any feelings of personal sacrifice or loss of womanly opportunity


    2. Savannah had always looked young for her age, but now she looked exotic and womanly


    3. The queen was delighted that Helez was to be her personal chambermaid and they chatted about everything of womanly interest


    4. She should learn the womanly arts instead of verse


    5. Her long, raven black hair, piercing blue eyes, bronze skin and those womanly curves were enough to make any man’s mouth go as dry as desert sand


    6. She was sure her information was correct as she had visited Aramell herself and offered her womanly services to a soldier or two


    7. young friend here, whom I happen to know is a womanly young girl, and


    8. The man-faced moon has cast its womanly length along iceberg-littered seas in obedience to my kitchen calendar an exact number of times


    9. Flushed from a recent dance, her womanly breast heaved with laughter as an elegant young male said something, let go of her hand, and disappeared back into the milling bodies


    10. Her womanly bosom heaved and sank, drawing in great gobs of fresh, cool air

    11. She’d learned few womanly skills, but all too well remembered the many lonely night-vigils of her life before, when the beauty of the heavens had beckoned


    12. She was certainly not in the least like Cecilia, who had always been his ideal of womanly beauty


    13. But she knew now that she could give to John Meredith a love richer and more womanly


    14. He continued fishing for a year or so and got a neighbor to teach her all the womanly skills


    15. * Look at your womanly physique in the mirror and stick out your gut so that you can complain and whine even more about how you're getting fat


    16. Others bite and chew whatever womanly body parts they are able to mouth


    17. give a boost to your womanly charms, Hypnotherapy can help


    18. Testosterone is responsible for developing muscles while estrogen is responsible for the womanly curves


    19. Deep down she felt a tug on her womanly instinct regarding the bewildered Indian


    20. husband’s office, paper in hand, to give a little womanly advice that the Mayor, if he valued his peace of mind, should strongly consider

    21. had pointed out that, given the choice between her womanly tactics and a


    22. “Ah, the smell of fresh, womanly youth


    23. As the Fiat stopped at the wicket-gate, propelled more by womanly instinct than any welcoming intent, Lalitha stepped out from the main one


    24. The affection Roopa felt for Saroja catered to her innate sense of womanly want


    25. Slowly but steadily, we had struck a beautiful relationship, and, so to say, she took charge of my life; by the time I returned from work, she used to wash and press my clothes besides setting my bed right; how her brothers used to protest in jest that she washed my undergarments even as she refused to touch theirs; well she was wont to aver that I was her very special one, and once, when I was down with typhoid, my benevolent cousin came to take me along with her, but as my caretaker would have none of that, I had no heart to go against her wish; oh, how she rolled the roles of a mother, sister and wife into that womanly care! But later, when I decided to leave the place in search of better pastures, how upset she was; she seemed as if she were bereaved but she was reconciled to the dictates of fate as she put it


    26. And what does veiling women in Islam mean? Won’t it reveal the lack of male appreciation of womanly emotions? Oh, how the veil and all that goes with it stunt female sexuality! The embarrassment of Muhammad in desiring Zaynab, wife of his adopted son Zayd, could have caused him to stress upon veil for the female as a barrier against male frailty


    27. He stared at the statue of the Adversary, her beautiful womanly form draped in cloth as a set of feathered wings rose up behind her


    28. in this short three days, a kind of womanly softness that was in her heart changed the way Ye Manqing regarded her attitude to life


    29. seventy-two-but was not one of them willing to share the time with a close womanly friend or


    30. beginning to widen and round out a womanly figure

    31. At fifteen I lost a great deal of weight and developed womanly curves


    32. She was the brightest adornment and finish to a man's house, he said to himself, independently busy with her baby and her housekeeping, not worrying him, not having to be thought about in his laboratory when he wished to work, absorbed in womanly interests, cheerful, affectionate, careful of her child


    33. “Because I am a gentle woman? Because you believe I should keep my concerns to home and hearth? But who is to say that the word of God isn’t a womanly concern?”


    34. I did not believe Rhonwen had the womanly power to keep him stiff and laid for hours every night, night after night


    35. The yellow and green floral sundress she was wearing brought up her beauty even more noticeably and her face had such a youthful yet womanly appeal to it


    36. It was a passionate, loving, thankful, womanly action, but the hand made no response--dropped cold and heavy, and took to its knitting again


    37. Or with your mother and sisters? or in womanly housework? or the


    38. Meg, my dear, I value the womanly skill which keeps home happy more than white hands or fashionable accomplishments


    39. She had never read Sartor Resartus, but she had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners


    40. As she was a womanly little woman, the maternal instinct was very strong, and she was entirely absorbed in her children, to the utter exclusion of everything and everybody else

    41. So held, John had waited with a womanly patience till the little hand relaxed its hold, and while waiting had fallen asleep, more tired by that tussle with his son than with his whole day's work


    42. Amy tried to please, and succeeded, for she was grateful for the many pleasures he gave her, and repaid him with the little services to which womanly women know how to lend an indescribable charm


    43. Everything about her mutely suggested love and sorrow, the blotted letters in her lap, the black ribbon that tied up her hair, the womanly pain and patience in her face, even the little ebony cross at her throat seemed pathetic to Laurie, for he had given it to her, and she wore it as her only ornament


    44. For Amy's face was full of the soft brightness which betokens a peaceful heart, her voice had a new tenderness in it, and the cool, prim carriage was changed to a gentle dignity, both womanly and winning


    45. Then the tale of love might begin again in poetry or prose, two in one, united in the pursuit of knowledge, or the service of God and man; and feelings of love might still be the incentive to great thoughts and heroic deeds as in the days of Dante or Petrarch; and many types of manly and womanly beauty might appear among us, rising above the ordinary level of humanity, and many lives which were like poems (Laws), be not only written, but lived by us


    46. But she was so much changed, was so much more beautiful, so much more womanly, in all things winning admiration, had made such wonderful advance, that I seemed to have made none


    47. But, Pip—my dear!" There was an earnest womanly compassion for me in her new affection


    48. She would care for him with creature comforts too for Gerty was womanly wise and knew that a mere man liked that feeling of hominess


    49. She was a womanly woman not like other flighty girls unfeminine he had known, those cyclists showing off what they hadn't got and she just yearned to know all, to forgive all if she could make him fall in love with her, make him forget the memory of the past


    50. It grieved him plaguily, he said, to see the nuptial couch defrauded of its dearest pledges: and to reflect upon so many agreeable females with rich jointures, a prey to the vilest bonzes, who hide their flambeau under a bushel in an uncongenial cloister or lose their womanly bloom in the embraces of some unaccountable muskin when they might multiply the inlets of happiness, sacrificing the inestimable jewel of their sex when a hundred pretty fellows were at hand to caress, this, he assured them, made his heart weep































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    Synonyms for "womanly"

    feminine womanly ladylike womanlike unmanly

    "womanly" definitions

    befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature woman