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May be, the sight of women at "unwomanly work" was too much for Jack's chivalry at any rate, they had jumped in among the women and were cheerfully heaving out the coal whilst the latter bad a smoke. Now this, however laudable in itself, was clearly not the commander's intention, and the gallants, much against their will, had to yield to pressure and clear the bachelor lighter. September 7th.
Richard Harrington possessed a peculiar temperament, Grace Atherton had wounded his pride, spurned his love, and he THOUGHT he hated her, deeming it a most unwomanly act in her to make these overtures for a reconciliation.
Her eyes melted softly into light and life. Her strange unwomanly voice sank to the gentlest tones that I had heard from her yet. "Nobody else shall do it for me," she said at once proudly and tenderly. "Nobody, as long as I live, shall touch you but me." "Not even the lady there?" asked Miserrimus Dexter, pointing backward with his hand-mirror to the place at which I was standing.
"Now, my good fellow," they seem to say, "are you blind?" That is the drawback of Mrs. Nichol. Phenomenally absent-minded, she always knows at a given moment exactly what she wants to do. And she never wants to do more than one thing at a time. It is most unwomanly of her. Any other person of her sex would have left a game of cards for the sake of an attractive visitor like myself.
Jewkes speak ill of me, and scorned to take her odious unwomanly advice. O, what a black heart has this poor wretch! So I need not rail against men so much; for my master, bad as I have thought him, is not half so bad as this woman. To be sure she must be an atheist! Do you think she is not?
Nothing could have induced me to do anything so unwomanly except that you are the only man in town." She shook her whip so prettily at him that it was as seductive as a smile. It was also a way of gaining time while she tried to remember what it was he was famous for. "I believe you don't know me!" she said, with a little shriek, for Tommy had looked bewildered. "That would be too mortifying.
I think, M. P., that you should endeavour to discover the true state of your fiance's feelings. I do not, of course, advocate anything in the shape of unwomanly behaviour, of which I am sure, my dear young lady, you are incapable; but I think that you should certainly try to pique your fiance, to test him.
"But, my dear Lady Catharine, this means that he must part from you." "Of course, it means our parting." "Oh, but you said but I thought " "But I said but you thought Sir Arthur, do not stand there prating like a little boy!" "You do not, then, keep your prisoner bound by other fetters after he escapes from Newgate?" "I do nothing unwomanly, and I do nothing, I trust, ignoble.
Browning, and regard the first eight books of 'Aurora Leigh' as vigorous, grand and marvellously beautiful, I can not deny that a painful feeling of mortification seizes me when I read the ninth and concluding book, wherein 'Aurora, with most unwomanly vehemence, voluntarily declares and reiterates her love for 'Romney. Tennyson's 'Princess' seems to me more feminine and refined and lovely than 'Aurora'; and it is because I love and revere Mrs.
'There is duty to be done here; and there are womanly feeling, sense, and courage wanted here. 'I meant, explained Neville, 'that the surroundings are so dull and unwomanly, and that Helena can have no suitable friend or society here. 'You have only to remember, said Mr. Crisparkle, 'that you are here yourself, and that she has to draw you into the sunlight.
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