How To Use Maidenly In A Sentence
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Up the aisle she flashed, and none but Mary Cavendish could have made that little journey under the eyes of the governor in his pew and the governor's lady and all the burgesses, and the churchwarden half starting up as if to exercise his authority, and the parson swelling with a vast expanse of sable robes over the Book, with no abashedness and yet no boldness nor unmaidenly forwardness.
The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century
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Her cheeks were rosy with the effort to say what she meant without seeming unmaidenly.
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The unmaidenly heroine of his novel is a French-American, Nicole Coche-Dury, who with her fiancé Sean visits her family in the region.
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Claudio cruelly accused his wife-to-be of unmaidenly behaviour, leaving her fainting at the altar.
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Her eagerness, the alacrity with which she pressed herself against him, suggested she'd forgotten every maidenly precept she'd ever learned.
DEVIL'S BRIDE
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‘Since Father is unavailable that would be acceptable,’ she ducked her head in a gesture the steward took as maidenly modesty, but actually was meant to hide her smile.
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Note that we were only allowed to say that ‘Kissing Mr Carr is unmaidenly behaviour.’
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Robyn stood back and clasped her hands together, miming maidenly awe.
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Pieta's voice was of a contralto color, and though not very strong, it was maidenly and soft.
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Callisto was at the same time flattered and perplexed; still more disconcerted when the pseudo-Diana interrupted her girlish chatter with unmaidenly kisses and embraces.
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Her eagerness, the alacrity with which she pressed herself against him, suggested she'd forgotten every maidenly precept she'd ever learned.
DEVIL'S BRIDE
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Maybe not brilliant, but well above the maidenly average in the 1800s.
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Joan united ‘to her maidenly virtues the martial courage and ardor of the noblest knights of chivalry,’ the author argued.
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The blinding, dazzling gas-light throws a grateful glare over the salient points of its indecency, and blends the whole into a wild whirl that dizzies and dazes one; but the uncompromising afternoon, pouring in through manifold windows, tears away every illusion, and reveals the whole coarseness and commonness and all the repulsive details of this most alien and unmaidenly revel.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863
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Her conscious self is appalled by the sensual abandonment of her unconscious self, which she feels to be unmaidenly and un-English, and which was brought on by thoughts of the man she loves.
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Simple, honest frankness, is the most maidenly thing in the world, when it is a woman's time to speak.
The Old Helmet
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Equally bucolic and perhaps even more liable to misunderstanding was the unmaidenly custom of peeping through keyholes before opening doors on Valentine's Day.
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Grooms often had to fight off over protective brothers because she wanted to be kidnapped, but to go willingly was considered unmaidenly.
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So Audrey spent her three idle days walking, reading, and occasionally joining in on the maidenly pursuits of her mother and sister, like sewing and fabric shopping at the markets.
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There were also the protests of her friends who said that she must on no account set forth upon an adventure so rash and so unmaidenly; observations which made her all the more eager to go.
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Not to mention all the unmaidenly language.
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The remainder continue their unmaidenly journey in search of husbands, whom they find waiting in cheerful readiness in almost any marsh.
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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.
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On maidenly wise she was shamefast at the first, yet so great was
The Fall of the Niebelungs
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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
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Well, I feel pretty and maidenly without bounding my tresses.
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The queen was beyond the blush of maidenhood, but dressed in maidenly green like the first hesitant uncurling feathery buds of April.
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I tried my best to look maidenly and modest, as I should, though I was near to bursting with pride and excitement.
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Her elderly husband took a shine to her peculiar ways and allowed her to do most unmaidenly things, such as learning how to use a sword.
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Never divining Joan's fluttering wildness, her blind hatred of restraint and compulsion, her abhorrence of mastery by another, and mistaking the warmth and enthusiasm in her eyes (aroused by his latest tale) for something tender and acquiescent, he drew her to him, laid a forcible detaining arm about her waist, and misapprehended her frantic revolt for an exhibition of maidenly reluctance.
Chapter 26
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Her bonnet wasn't big enough to hide her face, and she feared he might think the joy it betrayed unmaidenly.
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Pehlya clasped a hand over her mouth to hold back a very unmaidenly oath.
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Raven felt the heat rise again within her, and the blush that crept to her cheeks this time had nothing to do with maidenly modesty.
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In the poem, goblins sell a young woman magical fruit that sickens her with passion and leads to unmaidenly acts such as licking sticky fruit juices from her sister's body.
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a maidenly blush
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Curtin's sometimes unmaidenly tone is not ideal but works well most of the time.
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Manet's Olympia, one of the masterpieces of Realist painting, depicts unmistakably and shockingly a modern Parisienne… Olympia's challenging and unmaidenly stare no doubt had a great deal to do with the moral outrage which greeted the picture when it was first shown.
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The wanton gesticulations of a Virgin in a wild assembly of Gallants, warmed with wine could be no other then riggish, and unmaidenly.
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The person thus accosting Nydia was a lady of a handsome but a bold and unmaidenly countenance: it was Julia, the daughter of Diomed.