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Early on. and while still sober, she can richly crunch even Coward's soggier lines, tangle with an all-too-cultured maid, or just move or stand still with feral ladylikeness.

From Time Magazine Archive

I feel sometimes as if I should drop down on the floor, but then folks would never stop laughing if I did, at what they would be pleased to term my extreme ladylikeness!

From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 19, August 6, 1870 by Various

Joy, she probably thinks your coloring too vivid for ladylikeness.

From The Wishing-Ring Man by Widdemer, Margaret

I'm not given to taking conventional views of things and I'm the last woman in Ireland to want to make girls conform to the standard of what's called ladylikeness.

From Lalage's Lovers by Birmingham, George A.