woman-body

She said that a woman-body built its own nest once a month.

The Kitchen God's wife Tan, Amy 1991

He needed a secretary, a sort of caretaker for his chicken books, he said, laughing, and it must be a female person, since he had determined to bring Danny home from school for good and all, and he felt that a woman-body was a crying necessity.

Miss Pat at Artemis Lodge Pemberton Ginther

I couldna tell ye hoo the story aboot the farm's bein 'haunted rose, to begin wi', but I mind fine hoo fleid I was; ay, an 'no only me, but every man-body an' woman-body on the farm.

A Window in Thrums 1898

Marian to the turn of an eyelash; to the finger tips; in the bronze chestnut curls which stood like a halo round the face; in the supple little woman-body; in all the dear, quaint, beautiful baby who stood before me devouring me with gray eyes, and looking at me with a radiant, shy smile as she held a kitten tail up against her breast.

Nancy Stair A Novel Elinor Macartney Lane 1886

“Mr. Saddletree,” she said, “was never in the shop when he could get his nose within the Parliament House, and it was an awkward thing for a woman-body to be standing among bundles

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

` ` Mr. Saddletree, 'she said, ` ` was never in the shop when he could get his nose within the Parliament House, and it was an awkward thing for a woman-body to be standing among bundles o barkened leather her lane, selling saddles and bridles; and she had cast her eyes upon her far-awa cousin Effie Deans, as just the very sort of lassie she would want to keep her in countenance on such occasions.' '

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 1822

He wondered if, from a woman’s point of view, there were men who were just bodies and others who were people, and what happened if a man-body met with a woman-body, or a man-person with a woman-body and vice versa.

A Sweet Scent of Death Guillermo Arriaga 2002

He wondered if, from a woman’s point of view, there were men who were just bodies and others who were people, and what happened if a man-body met with a woman-body, or a man-person with a woman-body and vice versa.

A Sweet Scent of Death Guillermo Arriaga 2002

"Yes," said Sewell, "that is often the idea of the woman-body.

The Minister's Charge William Dean Howells 1878

"Mr. Saddletree," she said, "was never in the shop when he could get his nose within the Parliament House, and it was an awkward thing for a woman-body to be standing among bundles

The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 Walter Scott 1801