Childish

Examples

• There was a complete SANG FROID and indifference under Winifred's childish reserve, a certain irresponsible callousness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• That childish gladness wounded his mother, who was herself so grieved to part with him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Captain Dufranne is willing to remain, and for my part I am perfectly willing, perfectly willing--as I always have been to humor your childish whims. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Let's,' said Mr Boffin, rubbing his hands in his pleasantly childish admiration, 'let's try a letter next. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• But grief renders one childish, despair fantastic. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• When Dora was very childish, and I would have infinitely preferred to humour her, I tried to be grave--and disconcerted her, and myself too. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I was so young and childish, and so little qualified--how could I be otherwise? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Wild and full of childish whims as Em'ly was, she was more of a little woman than I had supposed. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• You'll say it's childish, observed Mr. Skimpole, looking gaily at us. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• She was bright and cheerful in the old childish way, loved me dearly, and was happy with her old trifles. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Formerly she had been a light-hearted infant, fanciful, but gay and childish. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• To gratify the most childish vanity was the sole motive of the great proprietors. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Do you think I only care about my fellow-creatures' houses in that childish way? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I regarded this as very treacherous on the part of Mr. Skimpole towards my guardian and as passing the usual bounds of his childish innocence. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Yet you think me childish? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• She envied them some spontaneity, a childish sufficiency to which she herself could never approach. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• And yet he burst into an agony of childish grief, as the cottage-gate closed after him. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• She had been wearing a loose dressing-gown of purple silk, tied round her waiSt. She looked so small and childish and vulnerable, almost pitiful. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Clara entered into our scheme with childish gaiety. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• This was the hidden law of her heart, which she concealed with childish reserve, and cherished the more because it was secret. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• She didn't like dolls, fairy tales were childish, and one couldn't draw all the time. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Yet it was not childish, it was a mortal conflict, a deep wound. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• You are childish. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Yet do not, my gentle friend; for, all childish and unwise as they are, they have become a part of me, and I dare not expect to shake them off. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I told you so, Pa, but you wouldn't believe it,' returned Bella, with a pleasant childish gravity. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• From the character and turn of the inscription, Also Georgiana Wife of the Above, I drew a childish conclusion that my mother was freckled and sickly. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• DO--I should love to see you,' cried Ursula, with childish surprised brightness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Her form was the perfection of childish beauty, without its usual chubbiness and squareness of outline. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• And Dorothea looked almost as childish, with the neglected trace of a silent tear. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Almost childish, she wanted proof, and statement, even over-statement, for everything seemed still uncertain, unfixed to her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

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