I'll accept that, if you insist on being old-womanish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mexico]

Do you know, my precious Rodya, I think that perhaps for some reasons (nothing to do with Pyotr Petrovitch though, simply for my own personal, perhaps old-womanish, fancies).    From Wordnik.com.  [Crime and Punishment] Reference

We must stop when we cannot go any further, and all this old-womanish cackle on the subject, the everlasting trying to prove what is already said to be proved -- the looking for the square in space after laying it down as a law that only the circle exists -- is a curious way of showing us how to control the 'exuberance of our own verbosity.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ideala] Reference

He makes no old-womanish outcry of alarm and expresses no exaggerated wrath.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle] Reference

Poor little darling, the girls made fun of it because it was so ugly and old-womanish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Maid Marian] Reference

I mention his weakness I have allusion to a bizarre old-womanish superstition which beset him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3] Reference

The companionship of Dale's bright youth would keep her from getting old-womanish if anything could.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bat] Reference

'I have heard of his praying -- how under the cover of his cant about saving souls he scatters his old-womanish scandals an' abuses his betters. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gold-Stealers A Story of Waddy] Reference

He said he was surprised that a man who could be so sensible, occasionally, as myself, could have patience to even think of such old-womanish nonsense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary of a Pilgrimage] Reference

Each of the cardinals, as he entered the chapel, blew a sonorous nose; and was received standing by his brother prelates -- a grotesque company of old-womanish old men in gaudy gowns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Italian Journeys] Reference

It was, of course, considered an old-womanish thing to do, but I finally came to the point when I asked the commissariat department to give me, as was the custom, tea, coffee, and sugar instead.    From Wordnik.com.  [From the Bottom Up]

Tabby cats -- the soft, fattish kind, without any manlike qualities, that seemed to be by far the greater proportion of all the men one saw about in buses and in the streets and met in business; tabby cats -- sloppy, old-womanish creatures.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Freedom] Reference

Do you know, my precious Rodya, I think that perhaps for some reasons (nothing to do with Pyotr Petrovitch though, simply for my own personal, perhaps old-womanish, fancies) I should do better to go on living by myself, apart, than with them, after the wedding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter III. Part I] Reference

Government instructions were vacillating and contradictory; Babbage was slow and apathetic, Warburton pompous and arbitrary; and in the end the affair was further degraded by an old-womanish wrangle between the two explorers as to the priority of certain discoveries.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888] Reference

It would be well if professors of philosophy refrained from giving currency to a notion which is attended by practical results of a pernicious character; but then this is just what professorial philosophy does, in its old-womanish endeavor to keep on good terms with the catechism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Counsels and Maxims] Reference

A shukka of cloth for a babbler, who had attached himself to the old-womanish Jumah, who did nothing but babble and increase the clamor.    From Wordnik.com.  [How I Found Livingstone] Reference

You have given me a home, when it is no easy matter for such as I am to earn one, with my old-womanish ways and my old-fashioned knowledge. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference

I always suspected that this intrigue was not without an object and that in all this old-womanish gossip there must be something, and I said as much to Krestyan Ivanovitch, telling him they’d sworn to cut a man’s throat — in a moral sense, of course — and they pounced upon Karolina.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Double] Reference

"He should be ashamed of such old-womanish weakness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1] Reference

"And I sha'n't wear dowdy, old-womanish dresses to please her, along with other girls of my size that are dressed up in their best.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elsie at Nantucket] Reference

Petrovitch though, simply for my own personal, perhaps old-womanish, fancies) I should do better to go on living by myself, apart, than with them, after the wedding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prestuplenie i nakazanie. English] Reference