She still managed to keep her air of a great baby, and it went rather sweetly with her obvious matronliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Secret Bread] Reference

Despite some irresistible liberties taken with hairdos and, of course, passes on accents (is cleaned-up ValleyGirl that hard to suppress?), it was all there with a cruel gleam: the frantic perkiness, the forced obeisance to idiots, the insta-matronliness and smugness that came with marriage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sheila Weller: Mad Hopes for the Mad Men Women] Reference

It was very beautiful to see what a demure, soft, meek matronliness had come over the high spirit of the "Nut-browne Mayde.".    From Wordnik.com.  [John Halifax, Gentleman] Reference

It was very beautiful to see what a demure, soft, meek, matronliness had come over the high spirit of the "Nut-browne Mayde.".    From Wordnik.com.  [John Halifax, Gentleman] Reference

The scant, brief skirt fore-shortened her; gave her a stork-like appearance; a combination of girlishness and matronliness not pleasing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gigolo] Reference

There was a sweet matronliness and quiet dignity in her manner, and beneath the placid surface of her blue eyes I suspected hidden depths of pure maidenly sentiment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories] Reference

She was a Provencale, with dark eyes, a Greek profile, and rounded majestic form, having that sort of beauty which carries a sweet matronliness even in youth, and her voice was a soft cooing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Middlemarch] Reference

She was a little pale, but not at all sad; her figure, which had within the past year or so acquired something of the wealth commonly conceded to matronliness, had waned to the slenderness of the day I first saw her in the art-gallery, but now, as then, she was slim, not thin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic] Reference

Don't you see a maturity and a dignity and a general matronliness apparent all over me today? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Her father`s daughter] Reference

A shapely little woman in whom slimness was mitigated in adorable ways, which in some remote future bade fair to convert it into matronliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic] Reference

Queen Amelie with her piled-up curls, the citizen King and their numerous young people doing honour to the young Queen of England and her husband, both looking juvenile in their turn -- all the more so for a certain antiquated cut in their garments at this date, a formality in his hat and neckerchief, a demureness in her close bonnet, and a pretty show of youthful matronliness in the little lace cap which, if we mistake not, she wears on one occasion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 1] Reference