How To Use Maiden In A Sentence

Virgo has been depicted as a winged maiden holding a palm branch in her left hand and an ear of corn in her right.
These feeling make you avoid generalizations and Russia is no more 'feudalistic' and USA is no more 'Paradise for handmaidens'. On Bushevicks, Bolsheviks and Scum: For The Record
Worsted in this war of love Shiva punished the mischievous god of love Madana for aiding that maiden by causing springtime to appear on the scene before its wonted time.
She rose in rank from fair maiden to fair lady and then to duchess.
Ford's maiden small-car, Figo, helped the Michigan-based auto maker improve sales multifold in India, and nearly two-thirds of Figo's sales are from its diesel variant. GM India Launches Chevrolet Beat Diesel Car

A pretty fern that is quite different again is maidenhair fern. Times, Sunday Times
Norns '(for so in that country they called the Fates)' beckon you to a land where green fields lie under a blue sky, fields where golden-haired maidens lie among the flowers. ' The Book of Romance
Her bonnet wasn't big enough to hide her face, and she feared he might think the joy it betrayed unmaidenly.
However, subsequent excavations at Maiden Castle, Arikamedu and Charsadda have inevitably caused many of his fundamental assumptions to be refuted.
The only smoke that will fill their meeting rooms will be the smoke of incense and, offstage, choirs of maidens will sing sweet and low. Times, Sunday Times
The aircraft makes its maiden flight tomorrow.
She was the virgin poetess dressed in white, the tremulous daughter who never left her father's house, the maiden who turned to art because she was thwarted in love.
The William Haggas-trained filly was sent off favourite on her debut in a maiden race at Salisbury, but ran green and only got going late before being narrowly beaten into third.
Then Zeus changed the maiden into a heifer, to save her from the anger of Here, but presently Here learned that the heifer was the maiden whom she hated, and she went to Zeus, and said, Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
The birds were carolling in full chorus and the eastern sky was mother-of-pearl flushing to pink, like a maiden's cheek in a Disney movie. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
He fondled the impression of her as of silverspun wire, of fine leather, of twisted hair-sennit from the heads of maidens such as the Marquesans make, of carven pearl-shell for the lure of the bonita, and of barbed ivory at the heads of sea-spears such as the Eskimos throw. CHAPTER X
These constricted walkways close one in but then open into wide courtyards where young maidens dance around wells, their sing-song voices light and lustrous.
Buddy draws the short straw again, taking the invention on its maiden voyage in a quarry. Times, Sunday Times
The great standard, in the Maiden's wars, was to be used for the rallying of all her host; the pennon was a signal to those who fought around her, as guards of her body; and about the banner afterwards gathered, for prayer and praise, those men, confessed and clean of conscience, whom she had called and chosen. A Monk of Fife
The bowlers were very well backed up by the fielders, and the hosts were pegged back to 19 for three from 12 overs, with Koram being the pick of the bowling with three wickets from six maiden overs.
When we stood at the bow of the ship we peered over the edge and watched the maidenhead get battered, the wooden carving taking the abuse in stride.
Fergal Lynch, who is closing fast on his maiden century of winners, takes the mount on Gaelic Princess, who is expected to have too much speed for her rivals.
Just as a crusty maiden aunt confined to a retirement home might continue to lecture her long-suffering relatives by letter, she will still be playing the duenna to an errant world, in writing.
Thus Rukhi – and she turned to abuse her clumsy little handmaiden for overboiling the rice and overbaking the coarse rye bread, for not tethering the donkey, and for breaking a new pot of spring water. Love and Life Behind the Purdah
Arrived at the foot of the mountain (the Jungfrau, that is, the Maiden); glaciers; torrents; one of these torrents _nine hundred feet_ in height of visible descent. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
Magath, who had led the club to a maiden Bundesliga title, left at the end of last season for a similar "supremo" job at Schalke 04 on a four-year contract. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
In 1863 she made her maiden voyage to China and Australia.
Seated on the inner side of the stile is the young maiden. Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants
The suns' rays beat sharply on the maiden's back and a light wind breathed through the folds of her outfit.
The application of blinkers worked a treat on this filly at Ayr last time when she romped home by eight lengths in a maiden race.
She decides to pack an overnight case and visit her maiden aunt, off in the country.
At one time, diabolical machines were devised for torture: from the brank, the brazen bull, and the breaking wheel to the heretic's fork, the instep borer and the iron maiden. Russ Wellen: What Is It with Men and Torture?
I'll not deny that flowers pop up their heads afield without such call, that the jack-in-the-pulpit speaks its maiden sermon on some other beckoning of nature. Journeys to Bagdad
I was so rudely interrupted, the one thing only that can balm and embalm this savage breast is the ‘Maiden’s CHAPTER III
Next door, at Cruz Vega's place of business, the maiden is carved into a very large picture in which she is in an open meadow. The colorful wood carvings of Cuanajo, Michoacan
And, oh, maiden! "added the queen, with benevolent warmth," steel not thy heart against her -- listen with ductile senses to her gentle ministry; and may God and His Son prosper that pious lady's counsel, so that it may win a new strayling to the Immortal Fold! Leila or, the Siege of Granada, Complete
Chippenham travel agents Lynda and David Brown will get a taste of the high life when they visit the Queen Mary II before the huge ocean liner's maiden voyage.
The story revolves around his young master Hero who spies a fair maiden in the house next door and falls instantly in love.
Well, our smiling postman recently delivered a letter to me that had my maiden name on it.
We are not going to outrage your sweet modesties, or call blushes on your maiden cheeks. The Virginians
Dancers, madly dancing; silhouetted druidic gestures; pale ass-cleft of hippie maiden, vibrant in the dusk. Woodstock Nation
The celtic crone, having slept through the dead winter, awakens restored to maidenhood.
She observed that my eyes were upon her, and in an act of instinctive maidenliness she bore her hand to her throat to draw the draperies together and screen the beauties of her neck from my unwarranted glance, as though her daily gown did not reveal as much and more of them. Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys...
After his death, I trawled through all of his speeches I could locate, from his maiden speech at Westminster to the verbatim report of proceedings at Holyrood.
Thus comes it that we take a final glance through two childish prison-houses, in far-separate Russian cities, wherein a youth and a maiden lie nightly dreaming the same dreams: one of them a spirit already bonded to the service of mind under the whip of circumstance: destined to storm rocky heights, from which hard-won eminences he shall command great views of sweeping plains and far-off mountain ranges; the other a pretty chrysalis on the eve of her change into a butterfly of butterflies; who is, nevertheless, to attempt flights overhigh and overfar for her frail wings; venturing to unfriendly lands whence she must return with frayed and tired pinions and a bruised and bleeding little soul. The Genius
He was probably off to meet the dusky maiden when he returned to his chalet.
Maidens should (or must) be mild and meek, swift to hear and slow to speak.
Maidens with water-jars on their heads which might have been dug up at Pompeii; priests with broad hats and huge cloaks; sailors with blue shirts and red girdles; urchins who almost instinctively cry for a "soldo" and break into the Tarantella if you look at them; quiet, grave, farmer-peasants with the Phrygian cap; coral-fishers fresh from the African coast with tales of storm and tempest and the Madonna's help -- make up group after group of Caprese life as one looks idly on, a life not specially truthful perhaps or moral or high-minded, but sunny and pleasant and pretty enough, and harmonizing in its own genial way with the sunshine and beauty around. Stray Studies from England and Italy
Others are maidenhair spleenwort, two kinds of polypody, and walking fern.
Oh dearie me, another killjoy objecting to the 'noisiest' light aircraft doing aerobatics in the skies over Maidenhead. Undefined
They tell tales ranging from courtly romances full of gallant knights and maidens-in-distress to rude fabliaux telling of the perils of drink, fighting and lust!
During the medieval era of chivalry, the names of English maidens and bachelors were put into boxes and drawn out in pairs.
The rustic maiden, slow and sweet in ungrammatical speech, who helps plant corn by day, and makes picturesque the interior of the cabin in the glare of "lightwood" torches by night; turns men's heads and wins children's hearts in Charles Egbert Craddock's tale, _The Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
A maiden was a good creature to look upon, full-breasted and strong, with spring to her step and light in her eyes. THE LAW OF LIFE
Bearing all that in mind, it would be a real shipwreck for an overwrought orchestrator to take the graceful skiff depicted on the cover of "Maiden Voyage" and overinflate it into a bulky ocean liner. Piano Perspectives, Visions of Vaudeville
Nowadays gingkos, or maidenhair trees, are often planted in parks or alongside streets, and they are just turning a brilliant emerald green. Times, Sunday Times
Then there was that bowman in the maiden four.
How can I save the world and rescue fair maidens if I can't work proper gramarye? The Lives of Felix Gunderson
Rocket man Steve Bennett has started the countdown to his first manned mission - to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the Wright brothers' maiden flight.
Read in studio A rather unusual hot air balloon has completed its maiden voyage.
Anyhow there were the peasants, men and women, boys and young maidens, toiling and swinking; some hoeing between the vine-rows, some bearing baskets of dung up the steep slopes, some in one way, some in another, labouring for the fruit they should never eat, and the wine they should never drink. A Dream of John Ball and a King's Lesson
Del, I don't know what kind of maidens you are used to kissing but a 3.5 inch turkey load tends to leave a "hickey" on my shoulder after each smooch ... even when that orange bead is held on the base of old Tom's warty neck! I have a quick question for all of you turkey hunters.
This range of ages and types exemplifies the three stages of many women's lives: maidenhood, marriage, and widowhood.
Is it the village maiden alone who confesses to a secret charm in dare-devilism? The Hunted Outlaw or, Donald Morrison, the Canadian Rob Roy
Amid the many trials of their maiden adulthood, she avers, they feel perversely compelled to refute the proper sovereignty of boomer parents in their lives.
According to legend, Eurosia was a maiden of noble birth, who was promised to a pagan.
The remainder continue their unmaidenly journey in search of husbands, whom they find waiting in cheerful readiness in almost any marsh.
The sportsman, the agriculturist, the holiday-maker, likewise the livery-stable keeper, and the umbrella manufacturer would, _cum multis aliis_, be all represented; Songs without Words; the Sailor's Hope; then wind instruments; solo violin; the Maiden's Prayer for her Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 26, 1891
But it's a race against time to finish the build, as its maiden voyage is sold out. The Sun
Considering he has only three weeks of training and one cha-cha-cha under his sequinned belt, it would be easy to make fun of Robbie's maiden excursion on Strictly, so that is exactly what we will do. Bad boy Robbie Savage finds life tough outside his comfort zone | Barry Glendenning
On the road we had huge meals at roadside tin shacks run by plump maidens. THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
She is a beautiful maiden seen from one side and a rotten corpse from the other, may we all get to face the good side of Her Face. Is jesus your lord and savior?
Go not to glean in another field, neither go from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens: let thine eyes be on the field that they do reap, and go thou after them: have I not charged the young men that they shall not touch thee? and when thou art athirst, go unto the vessels, and drink of that which the young men have drawn. The Dor�� Gallery of Bible Illustrations
With some, the sense of smelling is so dull, as not to distinguish hyacinths from assafoetida; they would even pass the Small-Pox Hospital, and Maiden-lane, without noticing the knackers; whilst others, detecting instantly the slightest particle of offensive matter, hurry past the apothecaries, and get into an agony of sternutation, at fifty yards from Fribourg's. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 367, April 25, 1829
But, since she was dealing with fantasy, that locale isn't set in concrete: Prince Charming, or whatever we might call the rescuer of the play's maiden-in-distress, springs to her temporary rescue as a leaping, kilted Scot, sparkling with giddiness and glee, and his nearby home seems to be a castle. Leo Stutzin: 'Wild Bride' At The Berkeley Rep: Serious Enchantment
THOR: I wash it fortnightly in the sacred waters of the Rhinemaidens, then comb it straight by the light of a silvery moon. Robert Brenner: A Thor Subject
The three-year-old progressed nicely last season, winding up with a maiden race success over this course and distance.
“Planet Killer” is an astronomical murder mystery set aboard the Martian i.e., human starship MSV Procyon as it is dispatched by Martian Space Force on its maiden voyage in the year 2191 to a destination called the Coalsack. Archive 2009-02-01
Well, here I am to-night, hoping for sleep, and lying like Ophelia in the play, with "virgin crants and maiden strewments. Dracula
The auditory ease of the merry mockeries of maidens is abruptly undermined by the trochaic retarding of the ‘sharp voices’ insisting on ‘maiden labour.’
After her divorce she reverted to her maiden name.
She lifted the bouquet from the ground, and then, as if inwardly ashamed at having stepped aside from her maidenly reserve to respond to a stranger's greeting, passed swiftly homeward through the garden.
They used the very same myth of the lustful African just waiting to deflower Southern maidenhood … Think Progress » Shep Smith hits Robertson’s ‘devil’ comments: The people of Haiti ‘don’t need that’ at a time like this.
The night before the princess wed he tried to steal into her bed, insisting that if he could not have her hand, he would claim her maidenhead.
Del, I don't know what kind of maidens you are used to kissing but a 3.5 inch turkey load tends to leave a "hickey" on my shoulder after each smooch ... even when that orange bead is held on the base of old Tom's warty neck! I have a quick question for all of you turkey hunters.
One by one the maidens waltzed with the young prince, hoping to win his heart, but his heart belonged to Odette.
ROY GREENSLADE, PROFESSOR, CITY UNIVERSITY/MEDIA COMMENTATOR: Well, it can be the handmaiden, which is Timothy Balding's point. CNN Transcript Dec 5, 2008
Well, science fiction, when I started reading it in 1930, was mostly bug-eyed monsters threatening nubile maidens.
He defeated six rivals in the event for $20,000 maiden claimers.
Who is the elegant maiden dressed in silk with a vermilion inner-robe patterned with golden butterflies?
Days pass in adventure, paddling in dugout canoes or hiking through the rainforest with a guide from the village who points out leaves used to poison fish, or to make a maiden love you, and roots to enlarge your manhood.
Fat and featureless, pink and pincushiony, it was borrowed by gushing maidenhood, exchanged by idiotic maternity, and had grown unctuous and tumefacient under the kisses and embraces of half the hotel. By Shore and Sedge
Mr. Smith (also a choirman) owned the Clewer Nursery Gardens in Surly Hall Road (now Maidenhead Rd.) and was responsible for the grave-digging and churchyard upkeep.
Maidens should (or must) be mild and meek, swift to hear and slow to speak.
Cecil Maiden, third Earl of Heathermere, was a widower with three sons, by name Reginald, Bertie, and Osmund. The Cryptogram A Story of Northwest Canada
Only after she heard this from two others did she herself believe it and accept her status as handmaiden, which is reflected in her statement to the angel: “I am running away from my mistress Sarai” (Gen. Rabbah 45: 7). Hagar: Midrash and Aggadah.
As syrup of borage (there is a famous syrup of borage highly commended by Laurentius to this purpose in his tract of melancholy), de pomis of king Sabor, now obsolete, of thyme and epithyme, hops, scolopendria, fumitory, maidenhair, bizantine, &c. Anatomy of Melancholy
The two races are a $15,000 maiden steeplechase and a $20,000 starter handicap for horses that have started for a $25,000 or less claiming tag.
Maidens should (or must) be mild and meek, swift to hear and slow to speak.
For Riley, Three Tall Women lends itself to the archetypes of the maiden, the mother and the crone, what she refers to as the tri-goddess.
It includes dances representing good and evil forces in the form of maidens and devils.
I have waited long enough; I have got tired of maidenhood.
Woven about the fragrant forehead of the fostress maiden's town. Studies in Song, A Century of Roundels, Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets, The Heptalogia, Etc From Swinburne's Poems Volume V.
She took up music again, and languages, drawing, painting, and the other long-discarded delights of her maidenhood.
Along rocky south-western coasts, especially in caves, maidenhair fern can still be seen. Times, Sunday Times
The graddan cake will keep her white teeth in order, the goat’s whey will make the blood spring to her cheek again, which these alarms have banished and even the Fair Maiden of The Fair Maid of Perth
The Baldwins reminded me of many such maiden ladies I knew back in the Little Town.
Her CV bore her maiden name … Smythe, minus the hyphened Enright. Purchased By The Billionaire
It's because you don't like my way of living," he charged, thinking in his own mind of the sensational joyrides and general profligacy with which the newspapers had credited him -- thinking this, and wondering whether or not, in maiden modesty, she would disclaim knowledge of it. Chapter XV
It had murals that dated back to the late 50s depicting native chiefs and topless maidens.
Gold-digging slappers who haul their knickers up with one hand and phone Max Clifford with the other are hardly the betrayed maidens of 14th-century folksongs! Letters to MediaGuardian
his first (or maiden) speech in Congress
Get it yet; she did not want to be judged on her own name and merits; she wanted to be known as the handmaiden of slick Willie. Video: Obama's South Carolina Victory Speech
On maidenly wise she was shamefast at the first, yet so great was The Fall of the Niebelungs
White and red baneberries, trillium, arisaemas… those Jack-in-the-pulpits kids love to open up and peer into, and hay scented, Christmas and maidenhair ferns… they had already staked their claim on the dry floor bed.
A fine-textured maidenhair will grow no larger than 2ft; heftier varieties include staghorn, rabbit's foot and kangaroo paw. Times, Sunday Times
I wouldn't hesitate to use them in speaking to my maiden aunt (- in-law). Ensename, por favor!
Thou hast been trained from thy post by some deep guile — some well-devised stratagem — the cry of some distressed maiden has caught thine ear, or the laughful look of some merry one has taken thine eye. The Talisman
What a way for the England batsman to reach his maiden Test century in only his second match. The Sun
Of course the circumspection of the local youth had never gone the length of making her a social proscript; for the proportion of those whose hearts, as they approached her, beat only just fast enough to make it a sensible pleasure was sufficient to redeem her maidenly career from failure. Chapter IV
Maidens and old hags alike swooned in his presence.
Campbell made his maiden speech to the lobby group's recent annual dinner, appearing a little dour and uncertain as he gave the vote of thanks, but friends say this should not be read as a lack of substance.
So saying, he drew the unreluctant maiden swiftly forward. Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3)
Another door opened beneath the king, and a priest, followed by a band of choristers, and dancing maidens blowing joyous airs on golden horns and treading an epithalamic measure, advanced to where the pair stood side by side, and the wedding was promptly and cheerily solemnized. Short Stories for English Courses
But it is time to turn to some of those special and rare outgates that the Amen with the keys gave to His favoured handmaiden, the Lady Robertland; and the first kind of outgate, on account of which she was always such an astonishment to herself, was what she would call her outgate from providential disabilities, entanglements, and embarrassments. Samuel Rutherford
If there's a dusky maiden to rub on the sun oil, so much the better.
Lorimer; she was not more than seventeen when the poet made her acquaintance, and though she had got a sort of brevet-right from an officer of the army, to use his southron name of Whelpdale, she loved best to be addressed by her maiden designation, while the poet chose to veil her in the numerous lyrics, to which she gave life, under the names of "Chloris," "The lass of Craigie-burnwood," and "The lassie wi 'the lintwhite locks. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham
Raccoon: Linda suggested Nekko as well, also Nikko which is where we saw the Shrine Maiden dance! N.D.Y., cats and the name game.
Then she said to me, “Know that this handmaiden is to us even as our own child and she is a trust committed to thee by Allah.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
But its main pertinence to this discussion is the demand the lover puts on the maiden for her to give up everything of her privileged life to follow him in his outlaw life as he goes into hiding. Wordsworths Balladry: Real Men Wanted
Maidens and honesty wandered then, I say, where they listed, alone, signiorising, secure that no stranger liberty, or lascivious intent could prejudice it, or their own native desire or will any way endamage it. The Second Book. III. Of That Which Passed between Don Quixote and Certain Goatherds
The actual caption is, ‘Protect What's Yours’ - which could either mean ‘your woman’ or, in the unlikely event the reader is a female, ‘your maidenhead.’
Others are maidenhair spleenwort, two kinds of polypody, and walking fern.
The circumstances of a middle-class revolution thus thrust upon the women of that same class the duty of carrying, in the form of their maidenhead, the burden of the argument of moral equality.
She admits it was a special maiden Test century. Times, Sunday Times
For a film that traces the journey of a young American Indian who comes to India looking for her roots, Brinda's maiden attempt is described by her director as brilliant.
The broadcast invariably communicated something about their great society, envy of the world, then gave a rambling weather report, and ended with frocked maidens dancing a polka. Lorelei Kelly: Meet the New Soviets: Gingrich, Walker, Breitbart
All the handmaidens cheered, but the Lady stood to the back of them, her face stoic.
In this work the aeroplane is the handmaiden of industry. What Aviation Means to Canada
A stint with the legendary Byron Nelson and an inner determination to take a challenge head on came to fruition with his maiden win - the Western Open in 1974.
There is one man that everyone is talking about at this hour, and it is indeed Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gadhafi, who used his maiden address to the General Assembly to basically rail against the institution and effectively rail against what he called the inequality of the body. CNN Transcript Sep 23, 2009
Sambrooke, his mother and surviving sisters took possession, and the maiden aunts moved out to Shackerley Hall near Albrighton.
For the people the king erected almonries at the four gates of the capital, and hospitals, with slave boys and maidens to wait upon the sick.
Amanda and Nikki and the other Fritton maidens galloped off in hopeful hot pursuit towards the lavatorial changing rooms. TICKLED PINK
Altars are reared around, and the priestess, with hair undone, thrice peals from her lips the hundred gods of Erebus and Chaos, and the triform Hecate, the triple-faced maidenhood of Diana. The Aeneid of Virgil
Last October it unveiled its maiden fundraising to great fanfare. Times, Sunday Times
Located in the city's west Hongqiao area, the hotel is in a forest of several hundred camphors, pines and maidenhair trees - a green oasis in a metropolis.
In 1936, the Supermarine Spitfire made its maiden flight.
Well, I feel pretty and maidenly without bounding my tresses.
Anand had won this tournament in his maiden attempt in 1989 and also in 1998, 2003 and now in 2004.
But even the family of Proba herself was not exempt from the rapacious oppression of Count Heraclian, who basely sold, in matrimonial prostitution, the noblest maidens of Rome to the lust or avarice of the Syrian merchants. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
'Oh, maidens,' answered Martin merrily, 'every tune deserves its fee. Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
The foliage resembles that of a maidenhair fern.
The fact that an iron maiden is a medieval torture device is also beside the point. Iron Maiden’s lawsuit is ‘outrageous,’ comic creator says | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
The queen was beyond the blush of maidenhood, but dressed in maidenly green like the first hesitant uncurling feathery buds of April.
Morality among the Kachin maidens, a missionary tells me, is not, as we understand the term believed to exist. AN AUSTRALIAN IN CHINA
In 1628, the ornately carved and heavily gunned ship had sunk - after less than a mile of her maiden voyage.
In an innings of 66 overs, there were seven maidens.
Chariots and horsemen, men and maidens, the grim visages of age and the dusky beauty of youth, in lengthened procession, with palms, and music, and benediction, in behalf of that early world paid the last tribute to a great and just benefactor, to a builder Abraham Lincoln: The Just Magistrate, the Representative Statesman, the Practical Philanthropist
Remember that the pleasures of married life will be anything but pleasures to the young maiden you have taken for your wife. The Sun
Petronella had assumed her mother's maiden name in order to inherit her mother's estate and had accompanied her father to Ceylon. WEEKEND FOR MURDER
The crew of Maiden was very diverse.
He, along with Graeme Nicol and the lyric mountain churl Tom Patey (who died in 1970 falling off a sea stack called The Maiden), did the first ascent of Ben Nevis's Zero Gully, then one of the hardest ice climbs in the world, in 1957.
Bucks skylarked with bucks or flirted with the maidens, while the older squaws, shut out from this by virtue of having fulfilled, by reproduction, the function of existence, gossiped as they braided rope from the green roots of trailing vines. The God Of His Fathers
He made advances on every young female in the palace, no doubt remembering the days when they lined up to surrender their maidenhead to the heir to the throne. Frog Breath
'I wish I could hear what he's saying,' thought the little maiden, 'or most of all, I _wish_ he'd go and that other man too -- oh, he's going, but Mr. Redding is asking for something else now! The Rectory Children
To avoid hurting her husband's feelings I advised her to hyphenate both names, continental style --- as long her maiden name wasn't `Bigg '. RESCUING ROSE
Her gaze settled upon the last letter, a small, plain envelope addressed to her maiden name from someone she couldn't remember at first.
The king had promised that he who would venture should have his daughter to wife, and she was the most beautiful maiden the sun shone on. Fairy Tales
The application of blinkers worked a treat on this filly at Ayr last time when she romped home by eight lengths in a maiden race.
Some habits of hasty irritation he had contracted, partly, it was said in the borough of Fairport, from an early disappointment in love in virtue of which he had commenced misogynist, as he called it, but yet more by the obsequious attention paid to him by his maiden sister and his orphan niece, whom he had trained to consider him as the greatest man upon earth, and whom he used to boast of as the only women he had ever seen who were well broke in and bitted to obedience; though, it must be owned, Miss Grizzy Oldbuck was sometimes apt to _jibb_ when he pulled the reins too tight. The Antiquary — Volume 01
Others are maidenhair spleenwort, two kinds of polypody, and walking fern.
To avoid hurting her husband's feelings I advised her to hyphenate both names, continental style --- as long her maiden name wasn't `Bigg '. RESCUING ROSE
When the young maidens come from being examined by the clergyman, or go to church to be confirmed, there he is again close behind them. Andersen's Fairy Tales
She decided to keep her maiden name for professional purposes.
We grew up in a very magical house, full of tapestries and ancient furniture, a place of dark forests and maidens to rescue. Times, Sunday Times
Now, miss," said Bart, falling in by the side of the maiden, and speaking in a low, cautionary tone -- "now we are coming out on to the river, and at a spot that I feel kinder shyish of. The Rangers; or, The Tory's Daughter A tale illustrative of the revolutionary history of Vermont
As she grew into maidenhood her father was troubled because she remained unwedded: all his hopes for descendants were in this girl, his only child.
She tells him she wants him as her husband taking her maidenhead. The Conquest-Julia Templeton « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
i lived in 42c block with my mum, 2 brothers, and 2 sisters, i am the oldest my maiden name betty malone. did anyone go on country holidays with the blackfriars settlement. having visited this site brings back many happy memories i also remember going to jail park and chewing the leaves that tasted like vinegar. we moved to peckam in 1971 London SE1 community website
Indonesia, Southeast Asia's largest economy, was forced to postpone its maiden global offering of Islamic bonds, known as sukuk, in November when the credit crisis triggered risk aversion. Indonesia Advances Islam Bond
She has Christmas fern, autumn fern, ostrich fern, northern maidenhair fern, tassel fern, Japanese painted fern, lady fern, cinnamon fern, sensitive fern and one she calls tatting fern that was new to me. News | SJ | http://www.goupstate.com
Read in studio A rather unusual hot air balloon has completed its maiden voyage.
It writhed down her arm, and its five rubescent flower heads thrust out toward the priestess -- vibrating, quivering, held in leash only by the light touch of the handmaiden at its very end. The Moon Pool
John Gosden has a powerful squad of horses at his disposal again this season and the Manton trainer saddles a promising filly in Lurina in the Directa Gaffa Maiden Stakes.
She was dressed in red, white and blue, and cross with me, because I had taken Concorde 's maiden flight lightly and held everyone up. THE PRESIDENT'S CHILD
The umpires checked for the no-ball, as they did with Tait's first wicket, but again he was just about okay.14th over: New Zealand 66-4 Taylor 4, Styris 0 A double-wicket maiden for Mitchell Johnson. Australia v New Zealand - live! | Rob Smyth
But, since she was dealing with fantasy, that locale isn't set in concrete: Prince Charming, or whatever we might call the rescuer of the play's maiden-in-distress, springs to her temporary rescue as a leaping, kilted Scot, sparkling with giddiness and glee, and his nearby home seems to be a castle. Leo Stutzin: 'Wild Bride' At The Berkeley Rep: Serious Enchantment
Then through the gloom, with clear-pealing voice from across the stream, she called on Phrontis, the youngest of Phrixus 'sons, and he with his brothers and Aeson's son recognised the maiden's _voice_; and in silence his comrades wondered when they knew that it was so in truth. The Argonautica
But, father," the Golden Maiden said -- she called him _father_ now and it pleased him mightily; "father, I should rather marry Janko! The Laughing Prince Jugoslav Folk and Fairy Tales
Brides usedn't to be 'poor deared' in my day," the old lady remarked rather testily to her handmaiden, Jane. The Honorable Miss A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town
Hernando Wills , commander of Colombia's Navy of the Pacific, said authorities seized the vessel, which he calls an SPFS, a self-propelled fully submersible, just as drug runners were preparing for perhaps its maiden voyage. Colombia Captures Smugglers' Submarine
The gangway was installed on Friday for a weekend visit by construction workers and their families prior to the transatlantic liner's maiden voyage.
The application of blinkers worked a treat on this filly at Ayr last time when she romped home by eight lengths in a maiden race.
There are witches, fairies, and mermaidens [24] in the ballads: omens, dreams, spells, [25] enchantments, transformations, [26] magic rings and charms, "gramarye" [27] of many sorts; and all these things are more effective here than in poets like Spenser and Collins, because they are matters of belief and not of make-believe. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
Read in studio A rather unusual hot air balloon has completed its maiden voyage.
In 1926, DH Lawrence stayed there with a couple of maiden aunts while he corrected proofs of Lady Chatterley's Lover.
The handmaiden is my own sister's child," he answered quietly. The Moon Pool
And when I went to school it was a whole generation, all the teachers were all maiden ladies, and I think all of their young men went away and never came back.
Are there not charms by which the property of youth and maidenhood may be abused?

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