Meanings of feminine softness in English

Montaigne, indeed, observed long ago that cruelty is usually accompanied by feminine softness.

The lady on deck possessed somewhat of a stern beauty; hers was of the most perfect feminine softness.

But there is plenty of feminine softness in that character, if she were treated with love and kindness.

Although handsome, her face had lost any feminine softness it might have possessed when its wearer was warm.

Gloved hands, petticoats, feminine softness, and the general homage paid to beauty, all stand in the way of success.

There was little of feminine softness in those unguarded features, much of intense and apparently far from agreeable thought.

For the first time in his experience of her, Blake traced a note of feminine softness in Mrs. Markham's tones.

That she was not entirely destitute of feminine softness and sentiments of bounty, her parting despatch to her brother proved.

To the others around her, she spoke gratefully, and with feminine softness; but her whole heart seemed to be with George.

Yes, she was handsome, as may be a horse or a tiger; but there was about her nothing of feminine softness.

His wife came to him that night in his dressing-room in a spirit of feminine softness that was very unusual with her.

They highlighted the gendered dichotomy of Saunders clothes which combined a feminine softness with masculine lines and fabrics like leather and denim.

She was a cold, ephemeral weight, an incredibly feminine softness, and her silken hair glided over my cheeks and lips and neck.

He was ruddy-faced and white-haired, with an almost feminine softness to his chin that sat oddly with his brusque tone and impatient expression.

But, after all, Violet lacked that sweet, clinging, feminine softness which made Mary Flood Jones so pre-eminently the most charming of her sex.

Her manners were dignified and elegant, and in her air was a feminine softness, a tender timidity which irresistibly attracted the heart of the beholder.