inner woman
Example Sentences
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At least such reticence to self is often sincerely and plausibly asserted by the very inner woman.
From The Seeker by Harry Leon Wilson
"Ma'áni-há," lit. her meanings, i.e. her inner woman opposed to the formal-seen by every one.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 04 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
The eyes, deep, dark, and mystical gave no clue to the inner woman; but the mouth, while it was tender in its curves, had a rigidity of purpose in its expression that fixed the attention.
From Joyce of the North Woods by Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa) Comstock
Ah! her manner—it concealed the inner woman so as to leave doubt of her existence!
From The Island Pharisees by John Galsworthy
Yet it was the revealing of the inner woman, rather than the withering of the exterior, which betrayed her years.
From An Ambitious Man by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
