Visions of dire peril to distressed womanhood leaped into her brain from a score of favorite novels.
"The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories"
Charles Weathers Bump
She was not jealous of her predecessors in his affections, for there was an overwhelming sincerity in his invariable reassurance that none of them "came up to specifications"; that is, conformed to his ideal of womanhood, as she herself did.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
I have always been in doubt as to what my course should be; but let me say this, in justice to my intelligence, though it be a discredit to my womanhood, you can never love me more than I do you.
"The Mystery of the Locks"
Edgar Watson Howe