Barely snatched away, speaking figuratively, from the maternal breast; from the care of devoted nurses; from morning and evening caresses, quiet and sweet; even though they were ashamed of every manifestation of tenderness as "womanishness," they were still irresistibly and sweetly drawn to kisses, contacts, conversations whispered in the ear. ❋ Bernard Guilbert Guerney (1904)
Could it be that the French producer (played by Amalric himself) hoped to absorb the flagrant almost over-the-top womanishness of the troupe to get away from his own existential uprootedness? ❋ Unknown (2010)
Could it be that the French producer played by Amalric himself hoped to absorb the flagrant almost over-the-top womanishness of the troupe to get away from his own existential uprootedness? ❋ Karin Badt (2010)
Such associations of the castrato body with womanishness are made by Horace Walpole, who wrote, upon recalling his meeting with Senesino in 1740, "We thought it an old fat woman; but it spoke in a shrill little pipe, and proved itself to be Senesino"; similarly, and during the same period, the French traveler Charles de Brosses reported that Porporino was "as pretty as the prettiest girl" (Gilman 62). ❋ Unknown (2005)
And is there not illiberality and avarice in robbing a corpse, and also a degree of meanness and womanishness in making an enemy of the dead body when the real enemy has flown away and left only his fighting gear behind him — is not this rather like a dog who cannot get at his assailant, quarrelling with the stones which strike him instead? ❋ Unknown (2006)
Marcius, straightforward and direct, and possessed with the idea that to vanquish and overbear all apposition is the true part of bravery, and never imagining that it was the weakness and womanishness of his nature that broke out, so to say, in these ulcerations of anger, retired, full of fury and bitterness against the people. ❋ Plutarch (2003)
And having thought upon it a hundred and five times, I know not what else to determine therein, save only that in the devising, hammering, forging, and composing of the woman she hath had a much tenderer regard, and by a great deal more respectful heed to the delightful consortship and sociable delectation of the man, than to the perfection and accomplishment of the individual womanishness or muliebrity. ❋ Unknown (2002)
"You learned womanishness, you who took care to arrive late at the battlefield and stood by while I fought six men!" ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1989)
They fancied, with the eager old-womanishness of office gossip, that he had ❋ Sinclair Lewis (1918)
Marcius, straightforward and direct, and possessed with the idea that to vanquish and overbear all opposition is the true part of bravery, and never imagining that it was the weakness and womanishness of his nature that broke out, so to say, in these ulcerations of anger, retired, full of fury and bitterness against the people. ❋ Plutarch (1909)
I drank often in cabarets, became something of a swaggerer, and something of a fop, -- though never descending to the womanishness of the King's minions, -- and did not allow my great love affair, which I never mentioned save in terms of mystery, to hinder me from the enjoyment of lesser amours of transient duration. ❋ Robert Neilson Stephens (1886)
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. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)
Even in the agony of my awakening consciousness I felt the inevitable sting of shame at my weakness and womanishness. ❋ Hesba Stretton (1871)
Salomy Jane might return at any moment, -- it would be part of her "fool womanishness," -- and he was in no mood to see her before a third party. ❋ Bret Harte (1869)
I-don't-know-what womanishness, that makes him push like a needle for the lead, and he will have the lead and when he has got the lead, there ❋ George Meredith (1868)
'Medole has money and rank and influence, and a kind of I-don't-know-what womanishness, that makes him push like a needle for the lead, and he will have the lead and when he has got the lead, there 's the last chapter of him,' said Luciano. ❋ George Meredith (1868)
And is there not illiberality and avarice in robbing a corpse, and also a degree of meanness and womanishness in making an enemy of the dead body when the real enemy has flown away and left only his fighting gear behind him -- is not this rather like a dog who cannot get at his assailant, quarrelling with the stones which strike him instead? ❋ Plato (1763)
"She so womanish she [eh] answer [de man] when he say [morning]." ❋ LucianGemini (2015)
❋ Dnice (2003)
[Alexander Hamilton]: "Hey [Thomas Jefferson]"
Thomas Jefferson: "I'm having [PMS]!!!!!"
Alexander Hamilton: "Your so womanish" ❋ Gertrude Smellyson (2009)
