Feminine

(noun.) a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female.

(adj.) associated with women and not with men; 'feminine intuition' .

(adj.) of grammatical gender .

(adj.) (music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable; 'a feminine ending' .

手打:凯勒

• It was good logic, good, earthly, feminine logic, and if it satisfied her I certainly could pick no flaws in it. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• Lydgate's anger rose: he was prepared to be indulgent towards feminine weakness, but not towards feminine dictation. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Some of the ladies started back, as if half-ashamed of their feminine interest in dress. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• This part of her eventful history Becky gave with the utmost feminine delicacy and the most indignant virtue. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• They were not thin hands, or small hands; but powerful, feminine, maternal hands. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Perhaps his exalted appreciation of the merits of the old girl causes him usually to make the noun-substantive goodness of the feminine gender. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Not half a mile, was his sturdy answer; for he was not yet so much in love as to measure distance, or reckon time, with feminine lawlessness. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• She did not look at things from the proper feminine angle. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Mrs. Bulstrode was a feminine smaller edition of her brother, and had none of her husband's low-toned pallor. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• It is rather too feminine a fancy. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• In consequence of this hint, Lily found herself the centre of that feminine solicitude which envelops a young woman in the mating season. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Roma is feminine, said Rinaldi. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• Miss Dancer and her feminine graces. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• It was a feminine hatchment, and indeed a few years back had served as a funeral compliment to Sir Pitt's old mother, the late dowager Lady Crawley. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The pleading of the feminine--' Mr Fledgeby began, and there stuck so long for a word to get on with, that Mrs Lammle offered him sweetly, 'Heart? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

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