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Ann settled down, in time, to suburban matronliness; rearing her children as conventionally as her stuccoed neighbors reared theirs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Securely imprisoned at the Federal Correctional Institution in Pleasanton, Calif., she seems to be the model of middle-aged matronliness.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Madonna's face, her hair drawn smoothly over her temples, has a beautiful matronliness.

From The Madonna in Art by Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May)

It was very beautiful to see what a demure, soft, meek matronliness had come over the high spirit of the "Nut-browne Mayde."

From John Halifax, Gentleman by Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

She was a Provencale, with dark eyes, a Greek profile, and rounded majestic form, having that sort of beauty which carries a sweet matronliness even in youth, and her voice was a soft cooing.

From Middlemarch by Eliot, George