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  • "They kind of demean Ann Coulter into becoming this unwomanlike thing."

    Joseph Minton Amann and Tom Breuer: Media Drunk Tank: Officer O'Reilly 2009

  • Lothair is falser even than Vivian Grey, and Lady Corisande, the daughter of the Duchess, more inane and unwomanlike than Venetia or Henrietta

    An Autobiography 2004

  • She had the rare and unwomanlike art of witty description, though it assorted badly with her tragic face and unsmiling eyes.

    The Hippodrome Rachel Hayward

  • Lothair is falser even than Vivian Grey, and Lady Corisande, the daughter of the Duchess, more inane and unwomanlike than Venetia or Henrietta Temple.

    Autobiography of Anthony Trollope Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 1883

  • She must be bold, sudden, unwomanlike, -- and yet with such display of woman's charm that he at least should discover no want.

    The Duke's Children Anthony Trollope 1848

  • Vivian Grey, and Lady Corisande, the daughter of the Duchess, more inane and unwomanlike than Venetia or Henrietta Temple.

    Autobiography of Anthony Trollope Anthony Trollope 1848

  • She must be bold, sudden, unwomanlike, — and yet with such display of woman’s charms that he at least should discover no want.

    The Duke's Children 2004

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