At the next cot a feverish boy tossed wearily. Rachel noticed the uncomfortable arrangement of the folded blanket which did duty as a pillow. She stepped quickly to the head of the cot, took the blanket out, refolded it with a few deft, womanly motinos, and replaced it with a cool surface uppermost. "O, that is SO good," murmured the boy, half-unclosing his eyes. "It's just as mother would've done."
Dr. Denslow looked earnest approval. Rachel began to feel an interest kindling in her work. It was not in a womanly nature to resist this cordial appreciation of all she did.英文原著 · 《The Red Acorn》
Your presumptuous action . I must, I must forgive you for it, because I permitted it. Answer, speak, I want to hear your voice!" . There was such womanly impatience in her last words that, involuntarily, I smiled; happily it was beginning to grow dusk. I made no answer. "You are silent!" she continued; "you wish, perhaps, that I should be the first to tell you that I love you." . I remained silent. "Is that what you wish?" she continued, turning rapidly towards me.英文原著 · 《A Hero of Our Time》
More fools they! No man shall make ME womanly in such a fashion, I promise you! Let THEM wince and kneel; I will not."英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
Every phase of our life belongs to us. The moon does not, except in appearance, lose her first thin, luminous curve, nor her silvery crescent, in rounding to her full. The woman is still both child and girl, in the completeness of womanly character. We have a right to our entire selves, through all the changes of this mortal state, a claim which we shall doubtless carry along with us into the unfolding mysteries of our eternal being. Perhaps in this thought lies hidden the secret of immortal youth; for a seer has said that "to grow old in heaven is to grow young."英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
A young woman would have been considered a very inefficient being who could not make and mend and wash and iron her own clothing, and get three regular meals and clear them away every day, besides keeping the house tidy, and doing any other needed neighborly service, such as sitting all night by a sick-bed. To be "a good watcher" was considered one of the most important of womanly attainments. People who lived side by side exchanged such services without waiting to be asked, and they seemed to be happiest of whom such kindnesses were most expected.英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
"I like her looks," whispered the great man. "Like her clear eyes and clean skin. She strikes me as able, full of energy, and yet womanly. These men when they come under her charge," he insisted, eagerly, "need money to start again, don't they?" He spoke anxiously. He believed he had found the clew to his restlessness. It was a desire to help; to be of use to these failures who had fallen and who were being lifted to their feet. Andrews looked at him curiously. "Anything you give her," he answered, "would be well invested."英文原著 · 《A Wasted Day》