How To Use Old maid In A Sentence
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Old maids are prim'd — the coxcombs cough perfume,
The Age Reviewed
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The school is also encouraging parents to introduce their children to cards games such as old maid, snap and bridge.
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This rich man had an old maid servant who looked after most of of his household.
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Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity.
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She remained unruffled, and was similarly nonchalant about the the recent disclosure on the Internet of the true age of a large group of actresses, revealing her to be an old maid.
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Saturday nights after dinner are good times for card games: crazy eights, rummy, old maid, poker, 21.
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It might be an idea to leave your dear old maiden aunt behind.
Times, Sunday Times
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Alex is too young to be already thinking of herself as an old maid.
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She was two years his senior, and had long ranked as an old maid She had taught school, and was known by the young generation as the sternest disciplinarian in its experience.
THE PRODIGAL FATHER
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Old maids like to have a good time, as well as other folks; so, I don't shut myself up moping in my little salt-box of a room.
Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends
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Others waddled, Dominic Cork bustled, Richard Ellison scampered, Derek Pringle pranced doing a kind of human dressage, and the more rotund were as chest-on as an old maid breasting the billows off Cromer beach in early spring.
Praveen Kumar's rare style of swing bowling is as bold as it is old | Rob Bagchi
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Lordy massy, yest 'day arternoon I see yer Aunt Keziah an' yer Aunt Lois out a cuttin 'cowslip greens t'other side o' th 'river, an' the sun it shone so bright, an 'the turtles an' frogs they kind o 'peeped so pleasant, an' yer aunts they sot on the bank so kind o 'easy an' free, an 'I stood there a lookin' on 'em, an 'I could n't help a thinkin', 'Lordy messy, I wish t' I wus an old maid. '
Oldtown Folks
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I hope I soon meet somebody I want to marry, otherwise I'll an old maid.
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I'll bet you sixpence she "finds herself" (I know nobody _finds_ old maids).
Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends
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This canteen (with a funnel on its top, like a cavalier cap slouched over the eyes) was set on edge upon the puncheon, with the hole toward myself; and through this hole, which seemed puckered up like the mouth of a very precise old maid, the creature was emitting certain rumbling and grumbling noises which he evidently intended for intelligible talk.
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An old fellow, as Lycistrata confesseth in [5879] Aristophanes, etsi sit canus, cito puellam virginem ducat uxorem, and 'tis no news for an old fellow to marry a young wench: but as he follows it, mulieris brevis occasio est, etsi hoc non apprehenderit, nemo vult ducere uxorem, expectans vero sedet; who cares for an old maid? she may set, &c.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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The bike slows and the wind noise subsides and I meander around the twists with all the speed of an old maid cycling through a country village.
Times, Sunday Times
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At home were Ivan, the old deaf dvornik, the old maid,
The Man Who Was Afraid
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Heere I am to tell you, that this Gentlewoman had a servant, in the nature of an old maide, not indued with any well featured face, but instead thereof, she had the ugliest and most counterfeit countenance, as hardly could be seene a worse.
The Decameron
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He took credit for publishing the first horror comics and compared her understanding of comic books to a frigid old maid's understanding of sex.
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Thereupon a cackling, toothless old maidservant set aside the tray she was carrying and hobbled across to confront him.
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I knew there was no chance for Marian and Anne; they're old maids, and I'm young -- _young_.
Black Oxen
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Hence it may be seen that though there was not in Boston the "glorious phalanx of old maids" of Theodore Parker's description, yet the Boston old maid was lovely even in colonial days, though she did bear the odious name of thornback.
Customs and Fashions in Old New England
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The bike slows and the wind noise subsides and I meander around the twists with all the speed of an old maid cycling through a country village.
Times, Sunday Times
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He evoked the high pulpit with the red plush pillow for the Bible, the stiff pews, the black contribution purses attached to long poles, “the wheezy melodeon in the gallery-front” and the “old maid behind it in severe simplicity of dress,” the choir that raved and roared around its “victim” the hymn, “& pulled & hauled & flayed it.”
Mark Twain
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That the term "old maid" has lost its odium is due to the fact that unmarried women have made a place for themselves in the world of business.
In Times Like These
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This canteen (with a funnel on its top, like a cavalier cap slouched over the eyes) was set on edge upon the puncheon, with the hole toward myself; and through this hole, which seemed puckered up like the mouth of a very precise old maid, the creature was emitting certain rumbling and grumbling noises which he evidently intended for intelligible talk.
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To him, a schoolmistress was a crusty Old Maid in a liberty bodice and lisle stockings.
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And when you consider that a lot of them, through ill looks and ill luck, are foredoomed old maids and are foredoomed to teach all their lives, you can see how they cut down the period of teaching of the marriageable ones.
CHAPTER II
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The state of old maidism was reached at a very early age in those early days; Higginson wrote of an "antient maid" of twenty-five years.
Customs and Fashions in Old New England
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The game - sometimes with a game board, sometimes without - consisted of decks of lithographed cards on which were depicted comical or serious likenesses of women in pairs and a single ‘Old Maid.’
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As it is now, with all mandom to choose from, there are many, too many, old maids.
Woman Her Sex and Love Life
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Today spinster suggests a rejected, dried-up "old maid," so much so that some single women are driven to adopt the ludicrous term bachelor girl to describe their status.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 1
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Dowager went off in her jingling old coach, attended by two faithful and withered old maids of honour, and a little snuffy spindle-shanked gentleman in waiting, in a brown jasey and a green coat covered with orders — of which the star and the grand yellow cordon of the order of St. Michael of Pumpernickel were most conspicuous.
Vanity Fair
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It's like being called a eunuch or an old maid; one always hears that faint sneer of disdain and condescension mixed with pity.
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Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity.
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Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity.
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And I made myself many kinds of spectators, from crabbed old maids and lean pantaloons to girls in boarding school and Greek boys of thousands of years ago.
CHAPTER XIII
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‘Then again, some old maid's door will be slily fastened by tying tightly across the door jambs, in front of and to the ‘sneck’, a piece of wood to prevent her coming out of doors till released by a kind neighbour next morning.’
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The opening two-year-old maiden race was won by a decent horse 12 months ago in Warm Heart, and it would come as no surprise to see this event throw-up another useful youngster.
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This is a meeting which can throw up some interesting horses for the future from the two-year-old maiden races.
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Thereupon a cackling, toothless old maidservant set aside the tray she was carrying and hobbled across to confront him.
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Alex is too young to be already thinking of herself as an old maid.
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It might be an idea to leave your dear old maiden aunt behind.
Times, Sunday Times
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“The next piece was a satire on certain members who were getting very much into the way of joking on the worn-out subjects of matrimony and old maid and old bachelorism.
The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Alex is too young to be already thinking of herself as an old maid.
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Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity.
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a shopkeeper in the same village -- his Gloriana a certain prudish old maiden lady, benempt Miss Goldie; I think I see her still, with her thin arms sheathed in scarlet gloves, and crossed like two lobsters in
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10)
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Side, "and the opening chapters of Miss Phelps's" Old Maids 'Paradise; "also the description of" Joppa, "by Grace Denio Litchfield, in" Only an
The Wit of Women Fourth Edition
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In his will he left ￡12 to be given to twelve old maids who were to act as pall bearers.
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The next piece was a satire on certain members who were getting very much into the way of joking on the worn-out subjects of matrimony and old maid and old bachelorism.
Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe