inner woman

Example Sentences

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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

Ah! her manner—it concealed the inner woman so as to leave doubt of her existence!

From The Island Pharisees by Galsworthy, John

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

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 Comstock, Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa)

"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 Burton, Richard Francis, Sir