Word: woman
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...when a woman wooes, what woman...
...regard for the child had grown up within me; perhaps it was because I had never known what it was to have a younger sister. We were firm friends; indeed, I think she lavished upon me that sort of love which a boy may sometimes feel for a woman many years his senior. I knew I should miss her greatly. . . . But when I saw her in the doorway smiling at me, her pale face struck me with something like terror...
...noble he is!" cried Sue Choe. "And how strong - and how brave - and how beautiful," echoed the damsels, enraptured. "O Loe! is he not quite too awfully sweet?" continued Sue. "Ah," with a sigh, "happy is the woman who has his favor...
...girl under extremely favorable circumstances will do very well, but I tell you when you have nine of them, all with entirely different inclinations and propensities, to which you must conform your own, it makes a fellow long again for those happy ante-woman days when Adam could go fishing all the morning, and play tennis all the afternoon, in the delightful consciousness that as yet there was no Eve shrieking out the kitchen window that if he wanted any dinner he'd better come home and start the fire, and he need n't use any kerosene either...
...stood for a moment looking at those hysterical girls, and then for about half an hour I practised for the Boylston prize. I talked about idiots, and dolts, and imbeciles, and called people daft and beetle-headed, and expressed my gratitude that I had not been created either a woman or a wooden goat, and - well, George dropped his handkerchief in his haste to see the outside of the gate, but he never came back after...