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  • Now what will be the market bid-and-asked price for this prime specimen of womanhood's next orgasm become each day as the 12th month nears its Coming.

    "Please, celibacy for the whole year? I'd rather die." Ann Althouse 2009

  • So he didn't know what to say to Apple now, when she needed someone to tell her what to expect in anticipation of womanhood's second sneak attack on her, or to tell her not to be alarmed when it happens.

    Apple 2009

  • So he didn't know what to say to Apple now, when she needed someone to tell her what to expect in anticipation of womanhood's second sneak attack on her, or to tell her not to be alarmed when it happens.

    Apple 2009

  • Could it be possible that only five hours ago she had flung herself into a lover's arm by the moonlit water, a passionate girl, in womanhood's first bloom?

    The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel John Maurice Miller

  • Her womanhood's star of hope shone brightly, though from a great distance; she devoutly hoped for the fulfillment of her destiny, but always dreamed of it coming in some time far removed from the present.

    Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People' Anna Balmer Myers

  • "And that was your -- your womanhood's home -- as well," replied Sybil, hesitating a little to find a suitable word.

    The Heiress of Wyvern Court Emilie Searchfield

  • All her pent up wretchedness of the last two months, all her outraged love, her womanhood's humiliation, a sense of life's bitter injustice and of her impotence to avenge the wrong put upon her affections, found vent in these three words.

    Flamsted quarries Mary E. Waller

  • Beautiful to their eyes, and other eyes, was she, as Grecian sculptor's dream and still more beautiful when childhood's early years flashed by and the bud was bursting into womanhood's glorious bloom.

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12 1919

  • She has her full dower of beauty -- womanhood's portion.

    Semiramis and Other Plays Semiramis, Carlotta And The Poet Olive Tilford Dargan 1918

  • Independent, yet not efficient; with some of womanhood's graces forgone, and yet with all the woman's hunger and need; half sophisticated, yet not wise; Oleron was tired of it all ....

    Widdershins Oliver [pseud.] Onions 1917

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