"Girlhood" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of her years until that first great crisis in her life—her going away to school—this world into which she was born had been to Kitty an all-sufficient world. The days of her childhood had been as carefree and joyous, almost, as the days of the young things of her father's roaming herds. As her girlhood years advanced, under her mother's wise companionship and careful teaching, she had grown into her share of the household duties and into a knowledge of woman's part in the life to which she belonged, as naturally as her girlish form had put on the graces of young womanhood. The things that filled ...
— When A Man's A Man • Harold Bell Wright
... is room yet for great improvement. You, my young friends, in your happy childhood and girlhood, cannot conceive the miseries of these poor little creatures. Thank God your lot is cast in a Christian land, and oh! do all you can to send the gospel light into these dark ...
— A Missionary Twig • Emma L. Burnett
... looked at him with affectionate, kindly interest. She had gone before him through the solitary road of young romance. She remembered her dreamy, dangerous girlhood, when she, too, had yearned ...
— Kenelm Chillingly, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... comes a girl, tall and graceful, but with a touch of something nobler and stiller that does not come to girlhood. It is the seal of the diviner Eden grace which only comes with the ...
— The Lilac Sunbonnet • S.R. Crockett
... off; and my girlhood was surrounded by all the comforts of life. Every wish of my heart was gratified, and ...
— Stories Worth Rereading • Various
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