 It meant a girl who could be trusted alone if need be, because of the innate purity and dignity of her nature, but who was neither bold in bearing nor masculine in mind; a girl who, when she married, would be her husband's friend and companion, but never...  Winona; or, The Foster-Sisters - Página 288por Isabella Valancy Crawford - 2006 - 334 páginasVista previa limitada - Acerca de este libro
 | 1869 - 890 páginas
...— as domestic as a German, but more graceful — a girl who could be trusted alone, if need were, because of the innate purity and dignity of her nature,...their interests identical, and not hold him as just 30 much game for spoil — who would make his house his true home and place of rest, not a mere passage-place... | |
 | 1868 - 850 páginas
...than an Italian, as brave as an American but more refined, as domestic as a German and more graceful. It meant a girl who could be trusted alone if need...husband's friend and companion, but never his rival ; one wiio would consider their interests identical, and not hold him as just so much fair game for spoil... | |
 | Elizabeth Lynn Linton - 1883 - 370 páginas
...than an Italian, as brave as an American but more refined, as domestic as a German and more graceful. It meant a girl who could be trusted alone if need...companion, but never his rival ; one who would consider his interests as identical with her own, nnd not hold him as just so much fair game for Hpoil ; who... | |
 | Jane Hume Clapperton - 1885 - 468 páginas
..."when the phrase — a fair young English girl — meant, a creature generous, capable, and modest. It meant a girl who could be trusted alone if need...husband's friend and companion, but never his rival ; a tender mother, an industrious housekeeper, a judicious mistress." "Of late years," she goes on,... | |
 | 1922 - 986 páginas
...than an Italian, as brave as an American but more refined, as domestic as a German and more graceful. It meant a girl who could be trusted alone if need...would consider their interests identical, and not hold book« that have been widely read are Pierre Bench's L'Atlantide (153,000), Boland Dorgeles's Les Croix... | |
 | Gail Cunningham - 1978 - 192 páginas
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 | Laurence Lerner - 1979 - 286 páginas
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 | Nancy Fix Anderson - 1987 - 280 páginas
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 | Margaret Markwick - 1997 - 244 páginas
...to be trusted than an Italian, as brave as an American, as domestic as a German, and more graceful. It meant a girl who could be trusted alone if need...was neither bold in bearing, nor masculine in mind . . . This was in the old time, when English girls were content to be what God and nature had made... | |
 | Margaret Markwick - 1997 - 240 páginas
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