Example Sentences

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“She’s promised to Major Hennion, and after much folly and womanishness at last she’s found her mind, and tells me she will cheerfully wed him.”

From Janice Meredith by Ford, Paul Leicester

For that was what it came to; and though Verrian tasted a delicious pleasure in the womanish feat by which she overcame her womanishness, he could not puzzle out her motive.

From Fennel and Rue by Howells, William Dean

As she ran back to her post Davidge smiled at the womanishness of her gait, and thought of Joan of Arc, never so lovably feminine as in her armor.

From The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Raleigh, Henry