woman-like
- a word derived from woman.
Example Sentences
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The garment in which her whole person was enveloped was one which Miss Arnott had never seen before, and, woman-like, she had a very shrewd knowledge of the contents of her companion's wardrobe.
From Miss Arnott's Marriage by Marsh, Richard
“I still think I was right,” she says, woman-like, in the Notes to the Poems of 1820, written long after Shelley’s death.
From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) by Marshall, Florence A. Thomas
She looked down at his deformity, and woman-like she shivered.
From Mysterious Mr. Sabin by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
His wife, woman-like, endeavored to encourage and comfort him, saying: "Cheer up, husband, drink your raki, eat your mézé, and be cheerful, for we know not what the dawn may bring forth."
From Told in the Coffee House Turkish Tales by Adler, Cyrus
And, woman-like, she hid her own grief, and comforted him, and arranged her violets and talked over their mutual triumphs and Dorothy's last note.
From A Pasteboard Crown A Story of the New York Stage by Morris, Clara
