But the black satin hairbow also is
femininity's demure, impersonal, common ornament, and tells no tales.
Some of her belongings were scattered about his room, giving it a delicate air of
femininity. The faint odour of her favourite and only perfume gave to her undoubted presence a wonderful sense of reality.
[Looking at it.] A little lacking in
femininity, Jane.
The fleeting glimpse that he had had of her in the moonlight as she swung from the back of her plunging pony into the branches of the tree above her had shown him a girl of about the same height as his Meriem; but of a more rounded and developed
femininity.
She seemed to carry with her the concentrated essence of
femininity. Her quiet movements, the almost noiseless rustling of her clothes, the quaint, undistinguishable perfumes which she used, her soft, even voice, were all things which seemed individual to her.
He found her lying on the great polar-bear skin in their bedroom, half-undressed, for they were dining with the Greens in Wilton Crescent, the ruddy firelight making the diamonds wink and twinkle on her bare arms and in the delicious curve of her breast-- a vision of adorable
femininity. He forgave her all.' (Well, this goes from bad to worse, and finally about fifty pages later, Hugh takes a week-end ticket to Swanage and 'has it out with himself on the downs above Corfe.' .
He tried to convince himself that Tarzan was mistaken, and when he conjured upon the screen of recollection the face of the girl behind him, he was doubly reassured that those lines of sweet
femininity and character, those clear and honest eyes, could not belong to one of the hated alien race.
Tyler, Jr., I never yet had experienced the almost paralyzing fear for the safety of any other creature which now threw me alternately into a fever of despair and into a cold sweat of apprehension as my mind dwelt upon the fate on one bit of half-savage
femininity of whose very existence even I had not dreamed a few short weeks before.
As she passed by him he was acutely conscious of her
femininity, though he saw by her face that she was sensual and feeble-minded.
Owing to the shortage of women, many of the men tied bandanna handkerchiefs around their arms in token of
femininity and danced with other men.
Exposure to the sun had browned a smooth and velvety skin to a shade which seemed to enhance rather than mar an altogether lovely picture of youthful
femininity.
I continue: with such disposition what prevents women--to use the phrase an old boatswain of my acquaintance applied descriptively to his captain--what prevents them from "coming on deck and playing hell with the ship" generally, is that something in them precise and mysterious, acting both as restraint and as inspiration; their
femininity in short which they think they can get rid of by trying hard, but can't, and never will.