What is "nunlike"

Usage examples of "nunlike".

The black robe and her demure coif of short ebony hair gave her an appearance of almost nunlike purity, save for the green hell-fires that danced in her eyes.

It jarred him, to see her look so sweet, so innocent, and to compare the nunlike appearance with the recent behavior.

He seated himself as she had desired, and leaned back against the cushions, his eyes wandering round the pretty room, full of her maidenly properties and the flowers she loved, then settling upon the slight form in its nunlike grey, crouching by his side, the brown head on a level with his elbow, the sweet face turned slightly, the slim fingers playing with the white roses in her lap.

The sight of her wearing something beside her drab, gray, nunlike uniform bowls him over.

There were black nunlike forms of cypress trees also, which stood grouped together as if looking down thoughtfully from their tall slopes, and old, wide-branching olives were filmy as a gray cloud in the darkness.

She made a tall and nunlike figure, except for the striking contrast of her bright honey-blond hair.

Her dark hair was parted in the middle and combed above her ears, giving her a nunlike appearance.

He had seen her returning in her little pony-carriage from the window of his dressing-room, wrapped in a kind of nunlike ulster with large sleeves, and he had also noticed that she wore a small crucifix at her waist, and that, in addition to the frills and ribands with which she always seemed to be encumbered, there was a jasper rosary round her neck on the Friday of her arrival.

The linen apron pinned over it, and the linen veil that covered her lustrous dark hair, gave her a nunlike air, as if a queen had taken vows.