women

He had known women like that, one woman in particular.

This time there was no sound of brakes but the shrieking of women.

Sometimes I wondered vaguely what he did about women for my Aunt, by blood, had died some years ago, but neither of us said anything.

some women with father fixations do.

The place is inhabited by several hundred warlike women who are anachronisms of the Twentieth Century -- stone age amazons who live in an all-female, matriarchal society which is self-sufficient ''.

It is the last of the three tests of manhood which the women impose, to discover if a male is worthy of survival there.

It took thirty of our women almost six moons to build this one, which is higher and stronger than the old one.

I clapped the big man with the bleached hair on his shoulder and said heartily, hoping it would make an impression on the women: `` This one is the maku Frayne.

But a glance at Songau and the other women confirmed what Brassnose had blurted out.

but four Eromonga women are more than a match for the strongest male that ever lived.

In the Manu tongue, `` eromonga '' means manhood -- a quality which the women derisively toasted in weekly feasts at which great quantities of a brew like kava were imbibed.

Though I had a great dread of the island and felt I would never leave it alive, I eagerly wrote down everything she told me about its women.

But in the middle of the last century an island woman named `` Karipo '' seized a spear in the heat of an inter-tribal battle and rallied the women after their men had fled.

Miraculously, Karipo and her women had succeeded in driving a hundred invaders from the isle of Pamasu back to their war canoes, after considerable loss of life on both sides.

`` Karipo's women then named this place ' Eromonga ' -- manhood -- for just the strongest men could stay here.

He had a war reputation, but this was the kind of man women like even without medals.

There was a shattering, cracking sound as the concrete started to buckle, the air filled with dust and flying debris, and everyone in the room -- men and women hit the floor and used the desks as turtlebacks, as ordered.

Lithe and muscular, he had well-molded features, and his light color told of the European ancestors who had been intimate with the slave women of his family.

He was gifted with animal magnetism and a potent allure for women of any race.

The women who come to West Venice, having forsaken radicalism, are interested in living only for the moment, in being constantly on the move.

He kills when he pleases, takes his women where he finds them and always acts as judge, jury and executioner rolled into one.

This favorable image of America in the minds of Russian men and women is still there despite years of energetic anti-American propaganda ''

Into the texture of this tapestry of history and human drama Henrietta, as every artist delights to do, wove strands of her own intuitive insights into human nature and -- especially in the remarkable story of the attraction and conflict between two so disparate and fervent characters as this pair -- into the relations of men and women: `` In their relations, she was the giver and he the receiver, nay the demander.

One is so accustomed to think of men as the privileged who need but ask and receive, and women as submissive and yielding, that our sympathies are usually enlisted on the side of the man whose love is not returned, and we condemn the woman as a coquette.

She had the opportunity that few clever women can resist, of showing her superiority in argument over a man.