George Eliot or George Sand, e.g

Usage examples of woman.

Bal had lent Barrie to us, and without a woman to aid and abet him, it seemed to me that he was powerless.

As he helped the woman to the stage Abie realized they all knew he would choose one of them as a partner.

That is the fidelity of a woman speaking, for Sier Valence has already said that he has abjured his oaths for the sake of this woman, and she does not deny it.

There were several women delegates and Ken made the most of their ablutions until he was distracted by the appearance of Karanja in a neat grey suit, an ingratiating grin on his face and his big ears standing out like sails.

Suddenly, it was as if a window in heaven had been opened and I saw a group of Aboriginal women standing together.

You were asleep, or at least I thought you were, then suddenly, I saw you standing with a group of Aboriginal women.

Former NATO general Wesley Clark was only slightly more explicit than all the other Democratic candidates for president, saying a woman should be free to abort her baby right up until the moment of birth.

I knew he usually aborted only married women, in their late twenties and thirties.

The same women that despised Sky Eyes, that gossiped about her and futilely forbade their sons to come near her, they came for abortifacients, joint easers, the silvery drink that brought one out of a dark mood, a dozen other things.

It was Sandy Wan, the woman who would later help me track down the truth about the abortus vendors.

Privately I ascribed her immunity to the fact that, being a woman, she escaped most of the cuts and abrasions to which we hard-working men were subject in the course of working the Snark around the world.

The abrasive warrior woman was about as warm and cuddly as a porcupine, and just as touchy.

I have received a few unconfirmed rumors from the north, but then, you and I both know that warfare is always abrim with rumors, warriors being as gossipy as old women.

From their bases first at Turin, and then at Coblenz, they were accused of planning invasions of France on the heels of absolutist armies that would put good patriots and their women and children to the sword and raze their cities.

But according to John 8 Christ absolved the adulterous woman without Penance.