womanlike
Example Sentences
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“We wanted to make ourselves look pretty and attractive and womanlike, in spite of the uniform,” said Nina Shebalina, a mechanic in the 586th Regiment.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
How tall and womanlike they looked in their dark serge dresses!
From Sisters Three by Lloyd, Stanley
Frank friendship was very well; but now and then, womanlike, she longed for such current coin of courtesy.
From Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters by Rowe, Clarence H. (Clarence Herbert)
But womanlike she was ready to believe that he would relent.
From The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness
Almost the first thing Francezka, womanlike, asked of Madame Riano was, whether she had saved their boxes.
From Francezka by Seawell, Molly Elliot
