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 Wilson, Harry Leon

Also she wished time to dress herself carefully and solitude to get the inner woman under control.

From A Singer from the Sea by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

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 Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

All that splendid faith, which is exactly to the inner woman what courage is to the physical woman, had slipped away from me.

From All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

There was something in the very sounds of such words which was appalling to the inner woman.

From Orley Farm by Trollope, Anthony