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They give away the fact that they haven't the instincts of a womanly woman." Remembering Ida Putiak, the manicure girl, and how ill she had used him, Babbitt agreed with enthusiasm; remembering how ill all the world had used him, he told of Paul Riesling, of Zilla, of Seneca Doane, of the strike: "See how it was?
"It must have been hard," agreed Kurt. "Didn't you find out anything at all?" "Not much," she replied. Then she put a hand on his sleeve. "Your knuckles are all bloody." "So they are. I got that punching our German friend." "Oh, how you did beat him!" she cried. "I had to look. My ire was up, too!... It wasn't very womanly of me that I gloried in the sight."
His patience his almost womanly gentleness notwithstanding, she could not forget the demon of violence and bloodshed that she knew to be hidden away somewhere behind that smiling, yellow mask. She marvelled at herself for her tame surrender, but she felt it to be irrevocable nevertheless. So broken was she by adversity, that she lacked the energy to resist him or even to desire to do so.
Josie Dean was quite womanly already, and didn't want to wear her hair in "pigtails" any more indeed, quite fretted because her mother wouldn't let her put it up. But Tudie confessed to Hanny "that she should be awful sorry when she was too big to play with dolls." "I put my beautiful doll away the Christmas Stevie was born," said Hanny.
It was only when gratitude for Sir Oswald's goodness melted the ice of that proud nature it was then only that Honoria's womanly tenderness awoke it was then only that affection a deep-felt and pure affection for the first time occupied her heart. That affection was all the more intense in its nature because it was the first love of a noble heart.
Caius was realizing that as she talked she was thinking only of the theme, not at all of him; he had enough refinement in him to perceive this quite clearly. It was the first time that she had spoken of her religion to him, and her little sermon, which he felt to be too wholly unreasonable to appeal to his mind, was yet too wholly womanly to repel his heart.
He could have made himself warm and comfortable with anger, and could have assured himself that under any circumstances he must be right to escape from the clutches of a wildcat such as that. But at the last moment she had shown that she was no wild cat to him. She had melted, and become soft and womanly.
In truth, she made several strides toward the centre of the barn, covering the movement with great generalship, by an attempt to gather up her hair and fasten the comb in securely, which was generous and womanly, considering how inconvenient it would have been for uncle Nat, with all his weight, to have walked over the mountain of corn-stalks.
Helen's replies betrayed a cultivated taste, and a charming womanly mind; but they betrayed, also, one accustomed to take its colourings from another's, to appreciate, admire, revere the Lofty and the Beautiful, but humbly and meekly. There was no vivid enthusiasm, no remark of striking originality, no flash of the self-kindling, creative faculty.
The children cared for one another, if the word "care" can be used to express a condition of neglect and indifference. It might be pleasant to show, if possible, that the mother of Stephen Girard had certain tender, womanly qualities, but the fact is that no such qualities were ever manifested.