Thrown for so many months upon her own resources, even for the bread of life, her intellect was unconsciously sharpened, and a habit of patient fortitude had strengthened a nature originally clinging and Femininely soft.
"Ernest Maltravers, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
His only chance for a future worth spending lies in months of physical reeducation, of teaching his Femininely soft body the hardness which stands for manliness; for him must be multiplied days of mental reorganization to change the will of a weakling into saving masterfulness; nor will these suffice unless, in the white heat of a moral revelation, the false tinsel woven into the fabric of his character be consumed.
"Our Nervous Friends Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness"
Robert S. Carroll
"My dear," said Mrs. Odell-Carney, hating herself all the time for engaging in the spread of gossip, but Femininely unable to withstand the test, "your excellent cousin, Mrs. Medcroft, receives two letters a day from London,-great, fat letters which take fifteen minutes to read in spite of the fact that they are written in a perfectly huge hand by a man-a man, d'ye hear?
"The Husbands of Edith"
George Barr McCutcheon