childness

• “I believe this freedom is compromised in many instances by the dichotomy of the child-womanthe blurred sexuality of the young female runner evolving into womanhood, secure at first in the perfect form of her childness in flight and then confronting new contradictions and conflicts over her maturing body.”

  Simon & Schuster: Young Runners

• “I reminded Marcus that Anna Paquin won the Oscar for best supporting actress for The Piano when she was still in grade school, so he shouldn't discount the power of childness to win awards.”

  Archive 2009-04-01

• “By 8:00 she had thrown up four or five times, her head was killing her, she was a pathetic heap of sick-childness, and we headed for the pediatrician's office.”

  Archive 2005-10-01

• “He paused and looked at her, and then all at once something in the utter childness of her beauty seemed to puncture his anger like an inflated tire, and render him helpless, uncertain, utterly fatuous.”

  Flappers and Philosophers

• “I am French and very happy to see what was my childness.”

  Chapi Chapo | Letter Never Sent

• “Aren't you a spoiled child, without the childness and the spoiling, to go and write in that plaintive, solemn way about 'help of some connexions of Jane's in Glasgow,' as if you were a desolate orphan”

  Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle

• “He must not only see the ideal child in the child he receives — that reality of loveliness which constitutes true childhood, but must perceive that the child is like Jesus, or rather, that the Lord is like the child, and may be embraced, yea, is embraced, by every heart childlike enough to embrace a child for the sake of his childness.”

  Unspoken Sermons Series One

• “Now, verily, it would be a low thing for any child to do his father's will in the hope that his father would reward him for it; but it is quite another thing for a father whose child endeavours to please him, to let him know that he recognizes his childness toward him, and will be fatherly good to him.”

  Hope of the Gospel

• “For God is not only the father of the child, but of the childhood that constitutes him a child, therefore the childness is of the divine nature.”

  Hope of the Gospel

• “The major had never been properly a child, but now lived his childness over again with Mark in a better fashion.”

  Weighed and Wanting

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