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Word: girlish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cooked by their own fair hands. The young ladies of this high seat of learning are, no doubt, partisans of Mr. Hendricks' who seems to be a favorite with the gentler sex, and they would like to see that staunch Democrat in the Presidential chair. It was a guileless, girlish plot. The President-elect, being too busy to eat that cake will live...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/7/1885 | See Source »

...English writer says, concerning the influence of the women's colleges at Oxford and Cambridge: "The sweet 'girl-graduate,' flourishing as that race appears to be, has not yet so fully taken possession of our universities as to render feminine society and girlish voices every-day adjuncts of college life; and perhaps their very rarity in those monastic precincts goes far to increase the charm which their presence undoubtedly adds to the otherwise sombre surroundings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/7/1882 | See Source »

...crept closer to him, till her bright head was pillowed on his chest. Was it still a girlish jest, a girlish freak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/1/1882 | See Source »

...Lasell Leaves is as fresh and girlish as ever (we mean this as a compliment), and is really a treat after wading through the Oberlin Review with its six-page criticisms on "Self-Culture," and its other discouraging articles. "Romance of the Rose,' though not a new idea, is very prettily written. "The Big Creamy Bowl" and "Grand Reception" smack a little of boarding school...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXCHANGES. | 6/3/1881 | See Source »

...pretty girlish prattle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DONE ON BOTH SIDES. | 5/21/1880 | See Source »

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