Given Beauty for our standard and first goal, Goodness, Mercy, Courage, Manliness, and womanliness, and good looks, would surely follow, and the Creator might be trusted for the rest.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
I had known the depths of her womanliness that other night; soon I was to learn the shallows of her femininity.
"The Debit Account"
Oliver Onions
One of the images which, on these occasions, recurs oftenest to George Eliot's friends, is that of the frail-looking woman who would sit with her chair drawn close to the fire, and whose winning womanliness of bearing and manners struck every one who had the privilege of an introduction to her.
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind