Example Sentences

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Then the antique mystery lurking in her face went out of it, and she became fin de siècle and romantic, and young ladyish, and uninteresting to Ludlow.

From The Coast of Bohemia by Howells, William Dean

She was too proud—I grant you that; but she wasn't stuck up nor young ladyish; she was simple and frank and kind about it.

From A London Life and Other Tales by James, Henry

Bernice's frocks were almost young ladyish, but those were not copied.

From Two Little Women on a Holiday by Wells, Carolyn

Do you think it was a ladyish, afternoon call, another-cup-of-tea-please apparition that visits your Professor Cranks and that journalist chap you are always talking about?

From Tales Of Hearsay by Conrad, Joseph

Don't, for goodness' sake, begin to be languid and young ladyish!

From Beyond the City by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir