girlish

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Girlish and gung-ho, she led a life that revolved around the Catholic Church, politics and the Kennedy family.

From Time Magazine Archive

Girlish glee goes with grim ideology in Bettina.

From Time Magazine Archive

Girlish arguments over Hitler occasionally ended in tears at Miss May's, but as the school year went on, Frederika read articles in British and U.S. magazines about the Nazi regime.

From Time Magazine Archive

Girlish days swept by much as usual—the rapid growth of warm thought and feeling making each revolving year a continuous springtide, an opening summer.

From God's Answers A Record of Miss Annie Macpherson's Work at the Home of Industry, Spitalfields, London, and in Canada by Lowe, Clara M. S.

Girlish, too, were the limpid eyes, which, but for a trick of dropping unexpectedly, seemed always to be gazing, in thoughtful surprise, at something that was visible to them alone.

From Maurice Guest by Richardson, Henry Handel