| 单词 | maidenhood |
| 例句 | ‘He feared I might charm Artemis into forgetting her vows of maidenhood. And who knows? Without Apollo’s interference, perhaps I would have. She would have been happier.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z With one stroke of such a knife my life would stream away—an undoing worse than the mere loss of maidenhood. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I will not have to kiss him, nor give him my maidenhood, nor bear him children. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z "I had their maidenhoods. Is that close enough?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The noble had taken her maidenhood, used her for his pleasure, and gotten her with child. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In it, the title character, a comely 15-year-old serving girl, is pursued by her rich roué of a master, who lays siege to her maidenhood. How She Survives: Strategies for Women on London Stages 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z I banned the word “obey” from our vows and I rejected the white dress that pushed archaic notions of female innocence, chastity, maidenhood and modesty. Perspective | Brides are wearing black. I did years ago and don’t regret a thing. 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z Rarely, in the chronicles of Day, was the preservation of maidenhood manifested in such dramatic form. The Matchless Presence of Doris Day 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z Rarely, in the chronicles of Day, was the preservation of maidenhood manifested in such dramatic form as in “That Touch of Mink,” in which she starred opposite Cary Grant. The Matchless Presence of Doris Day 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z When Christian, alarmed by Ana’s maidenhood, considers “rectifying the situation,” she replies, “I’m a situation?”—a sharp rejoinder, although if I were her I’d be much more worried about the rectifying. “Fifty Shades of Grey” Review 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z And when Constantia herself becomes a matron of this plantation she will not deport herself becomingly if she spend her maidenhood fostering vanity in others. A Pilgrim Maid A Story of Plymouth Colony in 1620 2012-04-02T02:00:24.090Z In the meantime she lay at the mercy of her mother and brothers, with all the traditions of her family, all the prejudices of maidenhood and her education against my suit. The Red Cockade 2012-03-30T02:00:19.603Z She has given up, for your sake, all the freedom and pleasures of her maidenhood, and to you she looks for a love that will replace them all. The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society 2012-03-30T02:00:17.867Z And they reared her into fulgent maidenhood, as a white lily is reared on a fragile stem. The Devourers 2012-03-16T02:00:23.493Z So had she stood a thousand times in old days, in her youth, in her maidenhood. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z The peculiar style in which the hair is worn, as shown in this picture, is a sign of maidenhood. Descriptive Catalogue of Photographs of North American Indians 2012-03-11T03:00:11.673Z The personal risk he was running lent added zest to the piquancy of his most unusual position as a champion of maidenhood in distress. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z The emperor Constantine’s daughter, for example, Constantia, gives her hand in marriage to Gallicanus, just before he starts on a Scythian campaign, though she has already taken a vow of perpetual maidenhood. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z Ah me! doesn't that look like perpetual maidenhood? My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z The arch wayward tricks of irresponsible maidenhood had given place to a reserved and haughty dignity that was unnaturally still. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z Oh! my sweet Annie, may you be happy—your maidenhood has been pure, sinless, loving, beautiful—you have no remorses, no anxious thought about the past. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z In the first of these a flower is again the symbol of the bloom and innocence of maidenhood, growing up apart and safe from all rude contact. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Those have right maidenhood who from childhood continue in chastity, and despise in themselves all lust, both of body and mind, through God's succour. The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. 2011-12-20T03:00:28.907Z Strikingly now she promised, as always she had hinted, what should be hers when full maidenhood was hers. The Happy Warrior 2011-12-18T03:00:18.863Z But when she made her final entrance into the snowy costume it seemed to be entering into the shroud of maidenhood. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z Fled, too, with the vapours of young maidenhood, were some of the sweets. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z There seemed so unholy a contrast between her own fresh, vital maidenhood and this ghastly, morbid domain. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z Let those who continue in maidenhood rejoice, for they have attained to be that which they praise: let them have care that they be such that they may praise worthily. The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. 2011-12-20T03:00:28.907Z Mighty courage she has—a frail figure, barriers closing up behind her to shut forever the easy paths of maidenhood; hill and valley stretching limitless before, where lie lurking heaven knows what ravening monsters. The Happy Warrior 2011-12-18T03:00:18.863Z It had taken away the enormous power that exists in maidenhood, with its self-awe and its fierce defense of integrity. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z Amor had either to be a Lovelace or a Joseph at a time when young maidenhood fainted before an ardent glance. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z "Oh yes, I like her," replied Claire, with a slight, wise nod of her head, where the clear gold of youth had not yet given way to the brown-gold of maidenhood. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z The maiden who bare him despised every man's fellowship, and to the Almighty God promised her maidenhood. The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. 2011-12-20T03:00:28.907Z He looked to men like young delight Gone courting April maidenhood, That has the primrose in her blood, He on his mincing lady mare. Reynard the Fox 2011-11-20T03:00:13.153Z Ah, it is strange To lose the sense of maidenhood, drink deep Of life to the very dregs, and yet not know A flutter of Love's wing. The Epic of Hades In Three Books 2011-11-16T03:00:28.060Z He was emotional, was this battered campaigner, who had buffeted about the world so much, and had an infinite pity for human weakness—and chiefly for the weaknesses of maidenhood beset by temptation. Mated from the Morgue A tale of the Second Empire 2011-11-15T03:00:23.507Z I know one hardened criminal Whose maidenhood with crime begins; Who, safe behind a prison wall, Should expiate her sins. Poems 2011-11-14T03:00:17.707Z There are three states which bare witness of Christ: that is maidenhood, and widowhood, and lawful matrimony. The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. 2011-12-20T03:00:28.907Z In but few are found the thrill and joy, the pulse and spring and natural enthusiasms of healthy, happy young creatures in the dawn and grace of maidenhood. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z The pride of her heart, her one remaining child, her beautiful daughter Tesselschade, was suddenly cut off in the bloom of maidenhood. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z They rested on his own a moment, and he remembered for a long time the look, the clear effluence of splendid maidenhood, as deep as a surrender, that passed her lids. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z Then she was to withdraw her trousseau from where it had been so hurriedly rushed into storage in London and appear at Bellingdown on the eve of her last day of maidenhood. The Tigress 2011-08-30T02:00:39.657Z The blossoms of roses betoken by their redness martyrdom, and the lilies by their whiteness betoken the shining purity of inviolate maidenhood. The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. 2011-12-20T03:00:28.907Z What was to have been the crowning of her maidenhood had come to this—a sacrifice to the baser, and without love. The Wayfarers 2011-08-28T02:00:32.867Z How ill their forms and faces would appear If seen within the rosy morning-light 190 Of maidenhood! Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z It had not seemed monstrous that her niece should give the bloom and vital purity of a sweet maidenhood to a man weighted with years and almost decrepid from past excesses. The Adventures of a Widow A Novel 2011-08-25T02:00:27.403Z One hand was at her throat, the other dropped against the dusky shoulder of a dog stretched at her feet, and in her dark eyes was the eternal question which maidenhood asks of life. The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z She manifested by her example the heavenly life on earth, for maidenhood is of all virtues queen, and the associate of the heavenly angels. The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. 2011-12-20T03:00:28.907Z She had already taken that provisionary leap into a mythical future which is one of the perfunctory attitudes of maidenhood. The Wayfarers 2011-08-28T02:00:32.867Z Surely we may believe, for the sake of the little girl, whose tender grace of unconscious maidenhood should not, in its hour of reawakened vitality, be the centre of a gazing circle. The Gospel According to St. Mark 2011-08-20T02:00:14.427Z Had any one in all the world of maidenhood beside her ever prayed such a prayer? Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline A Story of the Development of a Young Girl's Life 2011-08-09T02:00:30.317Z Know one, you know all Manners of maidenhood: mere maiden she. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z That closed gate in the house of God betokened the holy maidenhood of the blessed Mary. The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. 2011-12-20T03:00:28.907Z "Come in," he cried eagerly, and there entered a creature so lovely in her budding maidenhood that Leuthold could only open his arms to her in mute delight. Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z To this day well-conducted women of any class do not wander about the streets of Italian cities unaccompanied; and maidenhood is, as it always was, sacredly and jealously guarded. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations 2011-07-08T02:00:23.177Z The earlier days of Sage Portlock’s maidenhood had glided peacefully away. Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family 2011-07-08T02:00:20.557Z "What will you do, spend your lonely maidenhood out here on the prairie, or take a life interest in some Old Ladies' Home?" Hope Hathaway A Story of Western Ranch Life 2011-07-07T02:00:27.303Z She knew no society of man, and she brought forth without pain, and continued in maidenhood. The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. 2011-12-20T03:00:28.907Z She was still but a child, in spite of her blooming maidenhood, and the kiss was prompted by the purest impulse of her heart. Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z "Seventeen; not the best phase of English maidenhood, neither washed nor kissed," went on the voice of the unseen Mrs. Newton. The Disturbing Charm 2011-06-17T02:00:21.077Z "So have thy will of her," she said, "But do to me but good; For thou hast had my fairest flower, Which is my maidenhood." Songs and Satires 2011-05-20T02:00:37.050Z Blessings on thee, woman! whether in thy happy and innocent girlhood, or fair and gentle maidenhood; whether maid or matron, young or old, lovely or homely! Captain Kyd (Vol 1 of 2) or, The Wizard of the Sea 2011-05-06T02:00:10.447Z And she was blessed among women, for she, without female example, with the beauty of maidenhood, was mother of the Almighty God. The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. 2011-12-20T03:00:28.907Z Doubtless at heart he is loyal to the English girl, and does not admit even in debate that her supremacy of maidenhood can be disputed. From the Easy Chair, series 2 2011-04-29T02:00:06.407Z Here are girls home from boarding-school, rosy and sweet, blossomed into full maidenhood, bringing a whiff of the city in their furs and well-cut frocks. A Northern Countryside 2011-04-27T02:00:22.523Z How fever’d is that Man who cannot look Upon his mortal days with temperate blood Who vexes all the leaves of his Life’s book And robs his fair name of its maidenhood. Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends 2011-03-30T02:00:14.620Z As a general rule, the boys first wandered off; leaving the girls only the alternative of following, or dying in maidenhood. What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science 2011-03-29T02:00:08.937Z Such was Maria Diaz, who, according to a custom formerly universal in Spain, and still very prevalent, retained the name of her maidenhood though married. The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] 2011-03-23T02:00:19.910Z His Emilia, instead of being equally in love with two men at the same time, prefers maidenhood to marriage, loves neither, but pities both. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z It was the last maid who must keep her maidenhood, and, vicariously filial, pay out of her own life the debt of all the rest. Anna of the Five Towns 2011-03-08T03:00:38.117Z Among her own people, in the days of maidenhood, her name had been Tuschota; but by her English husband she was called Mary. The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec 2011-02-24T03:01:05.143Z For the first time Ivanka now appeared without her red cap, which in Dalmatia is only worn by girls as the badge of maidenhood. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z He had been dentist by appointment to Isabella, and had care of the m�choire of the lovely Eugenia de Montijo in her maidenhood. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z By him--strange coincidence--Felicitas, in budding maidenhood, with masses of curly hair and a languishing smile. The Undying Past They were so close that the voices were easily distinguishable: the light happy laugh of maidenhood mingling with the deeper tones of male companions. A Little World She was a mere child, budding into maidenhood; but her eyes brightened when I came, and she was my little companion here in the happy days that can never be recalled. A Double Knot It was like the magical transformation of a sorrow-shrouded woman back into the shape of her own earliest maidenhood. Sister Dolorosa and Posthumous Fame Her heart swelled to refute it, and might not for maidenhood. The Unknown Sea Michael had never seen her blush like this, had never been aware before of her maidenhood that now flooded his consciousness like a bouquet of roses. Sinister Street, vol. 2 She drew the hood over her head, she felt glad to hide the wreath of orange-buds and roses which Mrs. Frostham had insisted upon her wearing,—the sign and symbol of her maidenhood. A Rose of a Hundred Leaves A Love Story Some comfort, and my heart grew young; I sate down smiling there and sung The song I learnt in my maidenhood. The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Volume II Miss Wangle was engaged in prayer and tears, her wig was awry, her face drawn and yellow and her clothes the garb of advanced maidenhood. Patricia Brent, Spinster O the timid eager step of maidenhood when drawing toward the shrine of all it adores! The Sword of Damocles A Story of New York Life Beside the Virgin stands a jar of lilies, the flowers which symbolize the purity of her maidenhood. Tuscan Sculpture of the Fifteenth Century A Collection of Sixteen Pictures Reproducing Works by Donatello, the Della Robia, Mino da Fiesole, and Others, with Introduction Girl, don't you forget that this is your last night of maidenhood! Maximina Nay, thou shalt yet reorganize Thy maidenhood of beauty In his own glory, which is smooth Of wrinkles and sublime in youth. The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Volume II The latter may not have roused her to encounter life, may not have supplied a purpose, a hope or a determination, but at least it kept her contented in the shy season of maidenhood. Carnival They shrieked and giggled and chattered and sat down on the floor with the innocent abandon of maidenhood, and broke off to kiss the baby when he showed signs of being overlooked. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel Fairfax never knew the poignant ache he caused in that heart, virginal only, cold only because of the prolonged winter of her maidenhood. Fairfax and His Pride Good night, Maximina; sleep well."—"Your last night of maidenhood, dear! Maximina Thou art the last of all garlands that I wound in the spring of maidenhood! Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) The usual ideal of pretty, slender, unformed maidenhood was not realized, and yet Anne Douglas's face was more like what is called a baby face than that of any other girl on the island. Anne A child, or a girl just entering maidenhood? The Scarlet Banner Girls spend their last days of maidenhood in loud wailing, and their girl friends come to weep with them. Oriental Women I trust that soon a man of marrow will master thy coy maidenhood. A Struggle for Rome, v. 3 The ribbons and trinkets of her girlhood and maidenhood were in it, besides many a little comfort that Jan and herself had been defrauded of. Jan Vedder's Wife He had taken his ease from Sunday until now, though she, running ahead, had pulled him along; but now, when only one short hour of her maidenhood was left, the contrary old fellow would run. Belford's Magazine, Vol 2, December 1888 Only her soul was so exquisitely set in youth and beauty and maidenhood that it overawed and frightened him. The "Genius" Finally, to avoid perpetual maidenhood, the girl was given in wedlock to a blind man. Oriental Women He was the playmate of my earliest years,—the betrothed of my young maidenhood,—and just before my poor father died, he joined our hands and left his blessing on my choice. Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part No married woman ever goes back to the best of homes, and takes the place of her maidenhood. Jan Vedder's Wife She could not know what vision, overwhelming in its suddenness, she brought before him, of childhood gone and maidenhood come and the sacredness of this new state. Old Crow He stood gazing in rapture at Miss Jones’s blushing face, which seemed angelic in its purity and its dignified maidenhood. Stories by American Authors, Volume 10 Nellie, in her shy maidenhood, was a lovely picture at the head of his board; and Holmes, who sat at her left, was evidently more impressed than ever. Laramie; or, The Queen of Bedlam. Call me satyr when I urge in bounds The boundless beauties of pure maidenhood, And bid thee wed them! The Scarlet Stigma A Drama in Four Acts Lord, her modest maidenhood Was like a noose about her throat; but yet She ate some of the fruit. The German Classics, v. 20 Masterpieces of German Literature Soft and seductive, that contained each charm, Each grace the sweet word maidenhood implies; And all the sensuous youth of line and curve, That makes men's eyes Bondsmen of beauty eager still to serve.— Weeds by the Wall Verses Soft moonlight! life's pure maidenhood, whose dreams Are gleams of antenatal blessedness, Witness for Earth's equality, and bid The sister orbs of heaven cry "Hail!" to her. Eidolon, or The Course of a Soul And Other Poems Did the husband, after the bridal night, believe to have found that his wife had, before marriage, lost her maidenhood, not only had he the right to cast her off, she was stoned to death. Woman under socialism She however had defended her maidenhood and struck him about the head with an old, rusty sword, which she found on the shore, so that he sank upon the grass covered with blood. Sleep Walking and Moon Walking A Medico-Literary Study But the Cordial Liquor is doubtful; and then are there no girls in the sweet bloom of maidenhood left to Comfort up our lives? The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 A far larger number, however, are removed to the seclusion of their homes as they approach maidenhood. Our Moslem Sisters A Cry of Need from Lands of Darkness Interpreted by Those Who Heard It Edith had not in so many words devoted herself to perpetual maidenhood; but that was the outcome of the great sorrow of her youth. Name and Fame A Novel Were mutual amusement meeting's aim, Mind must move maidenhood inert and tame, Melt masculine rigidity. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98 February 15, 1890 The following often happened to me after I was married but never in my maidenhood. Sleep Walking and Moon Walking A Medico-Literary Study Thus the boy grew to manhood and the girl to maidenhood, then to young womanhood, at which time, of course, her troubles began. A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties Her figure has just begun to blossom into maidenhood. Sielanka: An Idyll What maid is maid like her Who, free to choose, has vowed a maidenhood Secure 'gainst chance or choice? Legends of the Saxon Saints Whoever heard of a girl on this side of the Maros being married without her farewell to maidenhood. A Bride of the Plains Thou Moon, most beautiful and best, save me, take my maidenhood, I am not evil to thee. Sleep Walking and Moon Walking A Medico-Literary Study She looked at him again, with some maidenhood opening in her eyes. The Rainbow That all the wood in blossoming, May calm her heart and cool her blood For losing of her maidenhood. Hymen They knew her life, how oft she stood, Pure in her guileless maidenhood, By dying bed, in hovel lone, Whose sorrow she had made her own. Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul To have her poor old father near her, after all, when she was saying farewell to all her maidenhood's friends! A Bride of the Plains The child had the pure, clear cut features of the cameo type of New England maidenhood. Turn About Eleanor At such moments my heart seemed to stand still, and a weary vista of monotonous and never-ceasing maidenhood arose before me. A Romantic Young Lady She was so good, so gentle, so loving to her kindred, that their simple hearts could not understand how God could let her die, in the very bloom and beauty of her maidenhood. Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier She walked very fast up Grange Lane, which was another habit of her maidenhood not quite in accord with the habit of sauntering acquired during the same period by the Fellow of All-Souls. The Perpetual Curate He has an only child, a daughter, Gycia, The treasure of his age, who now blooms forth In early maidenhood. Gycia A Tragedy in Five Acts All the beauty of youth, all the tenderness of love, all the shyness of maidenhood hung in that glowing countenance. Anthony Lyveden Not the gentle gravity of young maidenhood, looking into the vague light; but the anxious, searching gaze of older life looking into the vague darkness. The End of a Coil He stopped on the threshold, awed by the wonder of her maidenhood. The Wall Between She had no thought that Gerard might be hesitating in uncertain humility before the delicate maidenhood that invested her like a fine atmosphere forbidding approach. From the Car Behind No disgrace and misfortune can befall a woman, according to Hindu ideas, equal to that of spending her whole life in maidenhood. India's Problem, Krishna or Christ And you wear still the chain of maidenhood. Woman on Her Own, False Gods and The Red Robe Three Plays By Brieux All the sweet grace of a child was welling out of her maidenhood. Jonah and Co. In time she would perhaps recover her self-esteem, but she would never know in its fullness that divine right of American maidenhood to rule its environment and make demands of it. The Fighting Edge Different in race, station and experience, the bond of maidenhood drew them to each other with delicate lines of mutual comprehension and accord. From the Car Behind At last she dared wait no longer, and taking courage from necessity, descended the stairs—a pleasant picture of vigorous yet somewhat subdued maidenhood. Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West In its enchanted wood lives a noble lady tall and fair, lithe, young and elegant, with attendant maid and two faithful, fabulous beasts that uphold the standards of maidenhood. The Tapestry Book She often quoted this in defence of her industrious maidenhood. Nancy McVeigh of the Monk Road She was passing through that hard middle ground, that purgatory between maidenhood 66 and wifehood in the course of which married folk find each other only human, after all. All the Brothers Were Valiant Gone are thy pleasant days of maidenhood, And evil hours draw nigh, but knowest thou not, That what thou fleest is the common lot Of all thy sisters? Indian Legends of Minnesota I will conquer your mad maidenhood, I promise you, and when you sleep in silk and shine in splendor you will thank me devoutly. The Proud Prince She was not more than twelve or thirteen years old, but tall, straight as a young pine, and beautifully formed, with the promise of early maidenhood in the gentle swell of her bosom. Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland I, who have fallen from the high estate, the purity, the wealth, the consciousness of chaste and virtuous maidenhood! The Roman Traitor, Vol. 1 True, the first blush of maidenhood was gone, for she was only four years younger than I, but she was beautiful beyond description. Roger Trewinion It had, in all probability, so my uncle conceived, tried to suggest wicked thoughts and to tempt to wicked actions; but she, in her saintly maidenhood, had passed on undefiled by evil thought or deed. Curious, if True Strange Tales Year by year he seemed to see again the growth of the girl’s life, the patient care, the mutual love—saw at the last the fairest flower of Sicilian maidenhood, Perpetua. The Proud Prince The two women, verging on decisive old maidenhood, solemnly promised each other that they would never marry, and would always live together. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 He looked at her then as she stood in the gloomy companionway, a radiant and rosy picture of healthy maidenhood. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 In these grounds, darting in and out among the avenues, playing hide-and-seek behind the statuary, or otherwise amusing themselves, I met eight lovely children, ranging from infancy to young maidenhood. Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch They are the children of poor parents, and as they grow up to young maidenhood, they acquire a sort of superficial polish in the store, and are brightened without being educated. Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures. You look like a model for 'gentle maidenhood'. A harum-scarum schoolgirl The Ramble Valley young men were very fond of dancing attendance on Judith, even if she were verging on old maidenhood. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 Angry maidenhood in her kept hurling questions into the deepening dusk. Country Neighbors She had been too closely bound up with all the good times of Betty's little girl days and her happy maidenhood, not to be present at this time. Mary Ware's Promised Land Seventeen has come; its dignity and seriousness have followed upon the frolics of untutored youth; and the sweet charm of maidenhood has smoothed down such angularities as were formerly permissible. The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols For the last two years as she had blossomed into maidenhood, a subtle fragrance had enveloped her being, making significant and charming all she said or did, revealing new beauty and grace at every turn. The Root of Evil These ladies had been brought up in England from early maidenhood, but they were Scottish Princesses—the eldest and youngest daughters of King William the Lion, by his Norman Queen, Ermengarde de Beaumont. Earl Hubert's Daughter The Polishing of the Pearl - A Tale of the 13th Century The colonel looked at her, savagely almost, with the pain of it, and then back again at the girl who seemed to be picturing the first sad stage of undefended maidenhood. Country Neighbors There rose before her a vision of endless maidenhood. Jewel Weed Naturally, being a matron, and of the294 age of thirty-odd years, she put on some airs with her younger friend, still in the chrysalis of maidenhood. Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic She was plain, this lady, as she was poor; nor could she rightly be said to be in the first flush of maidenhood. The Bishop's Secret We had no time for unsuitable reading, and none of the cares or dissipations of maidenhood perplexed our straight forward way. The Education of American Girls But it was as if she had changed places with her wrinkled grandmother, to whom the expression of complacent maidenhood now belonged. The Mothers Of Honoré From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 A long, long maidenhood to thee thy prophet tongue hath given—" "Oh would, my sire," that maid replied, "such were the will of Heaven! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. Now the exquisite shyness of maidenhood enveloped her. Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale Her maidenhood was but just begun and she had much yet to learn of life. Marcia Schuyler Guiana," he tells her, "is a country that hath yet her maidenhood. A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole Janet plunged her head in her lap and was the picture of outraged maidenhood. Janet of the Dunes The roundness and the bloom of maidenhood was upon her, that bloom so transient, so irreplaceable, that renders any attempt to simulate it so profoundly ludicrous. The Nebuly Coat To them she was merely the conventional nonenity of maidenhood that Japanese etiquette demanded. The Dragon Painter Here she grew into maidenhood, and each day became more fair. A Book of Myths When she was in the first bloom of maidenhood, she was taken by her father to hold her Court of the Welsh Marches at Ludlow in 1525. The Reign of Mary Tudor 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 His pages breathe their clean and innocent perfumes, and are beautiful with the chaste beauty of their colour, just as they carry with them something of the sweetness and simplicity of maidenhood itself. Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation Before the marriage a kid is sacrificed at the bride’s house to celebrate the removal of her status of maidenhood. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II She picked up her parasol from the trunk, and after standing regarding him for a moment with an air of offended maidenhood, walked back to the town. Salthaven He recalled her as she appeared before him that night in all the grace and witchery of lovely maidenhood just opening into womanhood. At the Time Appointed Her husband was Sychaeus, wealthiest in lands of the Phoenicians, and loved of her with ill-fated passion; to whom with virgin rites her father had given her maidenhood in wedlock. The Aeneid of Virgil Having married when about sixteen, she was now just thirty-eight years of age; and though the bloom of maidenhood was gone, the beauty of a well-favoured and healthy woman still remained. Erling the Bold Years I have waited, true to my promise—with even my name of maidenhood relinquished. Tarrano the Conqueror We were bairns together, M. Montaiglon, innocent bairns, and happy, twenty years syne, and I will not say but what in her maidenhood there was some warmth between us, so that I know her well. Doom Castle She implied, with a faint scornful smile, that if she were a young man she would be capable of playing the devil with the maidenhood of the town. Clayhanger Many a mother among Tyrrhenian towns destined her for their sons in vain; content with Diana alone, she keeps unsoiled for ever the love of her darts and maidenhood. The Aeneid of Virgil Their manners are easy, dignified, and lady-like; totally free from all affectation, and in nowise marked by that frigid stateliness and pedantic formality, which a censorious world proverbially attributes to a state of elderly maidenhood. The "Ladies of Llangollen" as Sketched by Many Hands; with Notices of Other Objects of Interest in "That Sweetest of Vales" Thou who the girl perforce canst tear from a mother's embraces, Tear from a parent's clasp her child despite of her clinging And upon love-hot youth bestowest her chastest of maidenhoods! The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus The innocence of maidenhood, The motherhood of all the race. Custer, and Other Poems. They brought rare toys to her cradle, rich gems to her maidenhood; All that she saw was beautiful, all that she heard was good. The Dreamers And Other Poems Is this his repayment for my maidenhood? what good is his gift of life for ever? why have I forfeited a mortal's lot? The Aeneid of Virgil The loveliest flower of maidenhood in his parish had been cut down. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 The merriest eyes in the world were looking laughingly into the face of an old gentleman at her side, smiling, happy eyes of innocent maidenhood. Dross The discovery brought her to her feet—flushed, palpitating, aquiver with anger at this first shadow of insult to her maidenhood. The Great Amulet The mystery of young maidenhood, southern, sunlit, on the threshold of experience, waking to curious knowledge, to a definite consciousness of the meaning of its dreams, of the truth of its desires. The Call of the Blood Too much of Marie's always just enough I She is 'bad company,' yet e'en 'the good' Can find no flaw in her fair maidenhood. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy She was not entirely happy, for the humiliating failure of her hopes had left her for the moment without a recognised admirer, and the fear of old maidenhood had again laid hold of her heart. The Colonel's Dream Marriage had done for her what maidenhood had done for her sister, and Susie was the image of what Aggie used to be. The Judgment of Eve As the girl advances towards maidenhood, she is forced forward, and made to look as much like a woman as possible. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City But the face is that of one who has just passed from maidenhood to young womanhood. Van Dyck A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures And A Portrait Of The Painter With Introduction And Interpretation Back of them, he felt, was the mystery of purity, of maidenhood. The Yukon Trail A Tale of the North I see them on the threshold of manhood and maidenhood looking up to my wife and me for guidance and counsel, though they pretend to be sufficient to themselves in matters of judgment. The Opinions of a Philosopher And her maidenhood nothing defiled: She is deputed to bear the Son, Almighty God. "Everyman," with other interludes, including eight miracle plays The maidens tie their hair in a low long knot at the back of the head, to which is fastened a decorated deerskin ornament, denoting maidenhood. The North American Indian Some one at least Should start a correspondence course; But joy will scarce o'errun the cup Of maidenhood, my candor owns, Till some skilled Mentor opens up A regular school for chaperones! The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.) Her interest in men as creatures to snare and beguile was gone with her lost maidenhood. The Emigrant Trail The Mother of Jesus is shown to have been pure and to have "kept her maidenhood"90; it was the Jews who spoke against Mary "a grievous calumny." Secret Societies And Subversive Movements "There are," says he, "three states which bear witness of Christ; that is, maidenhood, and widowhood, and lawful matrimony." The Customs of Old England "He loved me in the days of my green maidenhood," she said to herself, "but now that I am become the most beautiful woman in England he disdains me." The King's Men A Tale of To-morrow The wide grey eyes, looking out upon a gentle aspect of life, were inclined to be merry and musing at the same time, soft with maidenhood's day dreaming, tender with pleasant thoughts. The Short Cut And the unconquered maidenhood that was still hers, recoiled with trembling reluctance from its demanded death. The Emigrant Trail From childhood she had been promised to Will; the idea of marrying him when they were both grown to manhood and maidenhood had been familiar to her ever since she could remember. Garthowen A Story of a Welsh Homestead The first is that of a chaste maiden given away lawfully in her maidenhood to a man. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province If the work did not entirely drive away the remembrance of Lancelot Vane it enabled her to look upon the romance of her early maidenhood with equanimity. Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' Her, in the bloom of maidenhood, her sire Had given him, and with virgin rites allied. The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor Friendship, home, family, all other claims hung loose about her, the broken trappings of her maidenhood. The Emigrant Trail Out of the calm, unconscious lethargy of her maidenhood's untroubled dreams the soul of Vera had awakened at length to the realization of the strong, passionate woman's heart that was within her. Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance “No, thank you; I'd rather walk,” said Elmira, all touched to bliss by his solicitude, but resolved in her pride of poor maidenhood that she would not profit by it. Jerome, A Poor Man A Novel And Dorothy swept her curls farther over her face, and could not make the dignified response of offended maidenhood that she should, but courtesied tremblingly and fairly fled out of the house. Madelon A Novel They had removed Anne into the mysterious realm her maidenhood had inhabited, before marriage had had time to touch her magic. The Helpmate In her fear that her knight, her soldier, would leave them, and, wounded though he was, insist on attempting to follow his men in their pursuit, the shyness of maidenhood was forgotten. Foes in Ambush The electric light outside streamed into her room and brought back to her mind moonlight reveries of her early maidenhood. The Debtor A Novel “I—think I—had better go,” said Lucina, faintly, with the quick impulse of maidenhood to flee from that which it has sought. Jerome, A Poor Man A Novel It was at "Fair Maid" they were playing, the mystic dance of Southland maidenhood, at whose vestal rites no male of any age was ever permitted to be present. The Black Douglas A man, the flower of honour, who has found His well-beloved young daughter fled from home, Fallen from her maidenhood, a nameless thing p. 19Tainting his blood. My Beautiful Lady. Nelly Dale It was the maternal instinct glorified and rendered spiritual by maidenhood, and its timid desires. By the Light of the Soul A Novel Perhaps Schumann recognized something, in the lovely child who was swiftly blooming into maidenhood, which made his own inner soul protest against any other attachment. Great Violinists And Pianists The result of their devotion was a rather strict surveillance, to which she was subjected, not only during childhood's years, but with even greater insistence when she had reached maidenhood. Up in Ardmuirland Know that thy maidenhood is not for long, Whom the Phœacian chiefs already woo, Lords of the land whence thou thyself art sprung. Health and Education The sunshade was of scarlet silk, and in the softened light stealing through it her cheek gained all the freshness of maidenhood. The Astonishing History of Troy Town Bessie had the simple graces of happy maidenhood, and Harry had the courteous reserve of good society to which his university honors and pleasant humor had introduced him. The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax She knew that Kenkenes was without, waiting for her, and with the delightful inconsistency of maidenhood, she dreaded while she longed to meet her beloved again. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Brunhild’s strength vanished with her maidenhood and thenceforth she was as any other woman. Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine Yet at every thought of that encounter, her maidenhood shrank, affrighted, with a sweet and tremulous fear. The Clarion This postscript was signed "Zelle,"—the orphan's childish and pet name at the Grange, which she now put off with the peace and purity of maidenhood and domestic life. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 Unlike others of her years, her cheeks did not display the bloom of maidenhood, and her countenance lacked the vivacity natural to her age. The Home in the Valley But for her I pray—for her, out somewhere in this unlifting gloom, her tender maidenhood uncomforted—with night, with death, with long dishonor threatening her. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt She drew herself up to her full height—she was not naturally small, but a good honest piece of English maidenhood. The Summons No angel, Jack, but a most exquisite, perfect flower of maidenhood. Winter Evening Tales Corinne clapped her hands gaily; although growing to maidenhood, she had the heart of a child, and was full of delight at the thought of anything that promised adventure and excitement. French and English A Story of the Struggle in America It was a certain girlish winsomeness, something elusive, which cannot be defined, but which lends a charm like nothing else in all the world to the sweet unfolding of early maidenhood. The Little Colonel's Chum: Mary Ware "And the gods judge thee for thy savage use of maidenhood!" The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt So had she stood a thousand times in old days, in her youth, in her maidenhood. Count Hannibal A Romance of the Court of France Goodness knows what went on in the heart of that extraordinary woman, condemned by her own cleverness to perpetual maidenhood. The Tysons (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson) The independence and income will prove attractive during young maidenhood; and matrimony can hardly yield its best results to the woman who enters it after she is thirty. Woman in Modern Society For this, a child was conceived by Kunti in her maidenhood, capable of provoking a general war. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 "The gods judge me rather for this sweeter use of maidenhood," he said. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt And, men, too, viol ting a chaste and loving wife who hath from her maidenhood observed the vow of purity, became guilty of the same sin. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Stella he had known and taught in her young maidenhood at Sir William Temple's. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Thus the shy, retiring, reticent, self-effacing, languishing, adoring excesses of maidenhood and the peculiar psychological manifestations of the late forties must probably be understood from this point of view. Woman in Modern Society So the mother of Proserpine might have been startled into new maidenhood when, in her wanderings, some herd had claimed her in love. The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay One morning he saw her at the quarries and, taken with her beauty, asked her at the hands of the Pharaoh, for the hatefullest bondage pure maidenhood ever knew. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Mark looked at her, and he was filled with wonder at the sanctity of her maidenhood. The Altar Steps It is no earthly love that follows, but the declaration of the queen that in her continued maidenhood justice to her people shall be her only spouse. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction She looked around the room, and there, in one corner, just as if she had never parted from them, were all the old treasures of her maidenhood— desk, work-table, chair. Christian's Mistake You knew her not a guileless, artless girl just blooming into early maidenhood. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy You have sworn it, and I swear before God and by my maidenhood that I will not tell you the name of the man who wrote the letter. Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall Neither the dignity of age nor the sweetness of maidenhood nor the innocence of youth nor the sanctity of profession had availed. And Thus He Came A Christmas Fantasy I passed in review my maidenhood, my marriage, and my love, and told myself that the darkest days of my loneliness in London had hitherto been relieved by one bright hope. The Woman Thou Gavest Me Being the Story of Mary O'Neill It was not only that she was beautiful and fragrant as apple-blossoms, a mystery of maidenhood whose presence awed his simple soul. Gunsight Pass How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West In the mind of one, here retracing the course of her maidenhood, this scene, if sad, was beautiful. Children of the Mist From her own life of serene married maidenhood such sins of the flesh seemed as remote as murder. Nightfall The truth is that no value was, or is, attached to maidenhood in all Polynesia, the young woman being left to her own whims without blame or care. White Shadows in the South Seas Doth any deem me fool, to hold a fair Maid in my room and seek no joy, but spare Her maidenhood? The Electra of Euripides Translated into English rhyming verse Oh, to be maiden, to love in maidenhood, to preserve amid the sweetest kisses one's maiden whiteness! Abbe Mouret's Transgression She flushed slightly, pleased and wondering, with a new seed of gentle vanity planted in her simple nature, a child on the threshold of the womanly inheritance of maidenhood. Westways Once falls a heritage; once a maid yields Her maidenhood; once doth a father say, 'Choose, I abide thy choice.' The Book of the Epic Let him woo some Achaean girl fair away among his own folk; let maidenhood be mine and the home of my parents. The Argonautica Is this the man that shields thy maidenhood Unknown, and will not wrong thy father's blood? The Electra of Euripides Translated into English rhyming verse O Mary, Vessel of Election, rid me of all that is human in me, so that you may fearlessly surrender to me the treasure of your maidenhood!' Abbe Mouret's Transgression A slim, girlish figure hardly filled to the full curves of maidenhood, she was yet an element that made for peace. Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 They beat upon my ear like the musical reveries of future mother hood—they betoken in Georgiana's maidenhood the dreaming unrest of the maternal. Aftermath Cyrene, the tale goes, once tended sheep along the marsh-meadow of Peneus among men of old time; for dear to her were maidenhood and a couch unstained. The Argonautica Your son, left alone with it, would wreck it in a year through simple ignorance and clumsiness; for you have kept him in his inexperience like a maiden in her maidenhood. The Plain Man and His Wife And with fresh ardour he six times proclaimed her maidenhood; his lips cooled and freshened each time that he pronounced that name of 'Virgin,' which he coupled with power, goodness, and fidelity. Abbe Mouret's Transgression All this is made by hand, and the choicest years of maidenhood are occupied in preparing the clothes for the wedding-day. Across China on Foot Well, never mind; nothing really can change her; Fair childhood will grow to as fair maidenhood; Her unselfish, sweet nature is safe from all danger; I know she will always be charming and good. Some Private Views Is here no innocence o'erthrown, no wrecked sweet maidenhood, No sense of loss, like heavy stone, to make her doubt all good? Selected Poems Or of the morrow diffident, Unconscious, beautiful she stood, Calm, in young stainless maidenhood. Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. The scattered isles that stand Warding the mightier land Yielded their maidenhood To his imperious prow. The Poems of William Watson The girl grew taller, but the cool whiteness of her face was untinged by any flush of young maidenhood. Hillsboro People Some time or other I would succeed in breaking through that charmed circle in which she lived, in making her yield up to me the spiritual maidenhood which, as it were, was hers. Five Nights The younger of these women in their unsullied maidenhood looked longingly and unsuspectingly in the direction of Siberia. Rescuing the Czar Two authentic Diaries arranged and translated But the fastidious attention which we bestow upon our national maidenhood is as nothing in comparison with the protective commotion with which we surround that shrinking sensitive plant, Mr. Thomas Atkins. The First Hundred Thousand The moon shone but to furnish a type of her bright and stainless maidenhood. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 483, April 2, 1831 Then in her fortitude she wears the crested and unstooping hemlet;** and lastly, in her temperance, she is the queen of maidenhood—stainless as the air of heaven. The Queen of the Air Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm Neither did his sister, in the pathetic innocence and purity of her middle-age maidenhood. Deadham Hard Old maidenhood came earlier then than in these days, and Anne knew that she was looked upon as an old waiting-gentlewoman or governess by the belles of Winchester. A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago He entered the work when Illinois was yet in her maidenhood, and from the first was a recognized power in the land. Thirty Years in the Itinerancy From another passage we learn that this was three years before her first meeting with the poet in 1807, "in the heyday between childhood and maidenhood." The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes An old woman tended her; and when the girl was grown to maidenhood she asked the old woman, "Where do you go so often?" Balder the Beautiful, Volume I. A Study in Magic and Religion: the Golden Bough, Part VII., The Fire-Festivals of Europe and the Doctrine of the External Soul But Katherine, he had thought, was so young and bright and beautiful; a child that had lived within the cloister and had grown to maidenhood in sweet innocence. Mistress Penwick And one nobly born lady among them, a beautiful woman whom I baptized myself, came soon after to tell me that she was divinely admonished to live in maidenhood, drawing nearer to Him. Ireland, Historic and Picturesque They do not care to prolong, even for a year what to us seems the sweetest, loveliest period of life, the time of artless, innocent maidenhood. Primitive Love and Love-Stories Tireless, he sang to her of a world fairer even than that of her maidenhood. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 The eyes that had watched the artist with such certain knowledge of life and with the boldness born of that knowledge were, in the picture, beautiful with the charm of innocent maidenhood. The Eyes of the World I looked around my pretty bedroom—it had been my mother's in the days of her maidenhood. My Brilliant Career The delineation of the upper middle class culture by which this exquisite flower of maidenhood is first caressed and transplanted, then slighted and left to wither, is not so satisfactory. The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories By the Mokis, maidenhood is indicated by wearing the hair as a disk on each side of the head. Primitive Love and Love-Stories She thought more of her maidenhood than of her life. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction Twenty and maidenhood lies at the opposite pole from twenty-four and matrimony. Big Timber A Story of the Northwest In maidenhood's tender eyes the greater tenderness of woman awaited still the coming day. Taquisara She was short in stature; and her figure was slight, as became her years; but all the charms of youth and maidenhood set it off, and clustered on her gentle brow. Martin Chuzzlewit Let him woo some Achaean girl far away among his own folk; let maidenhood be mine and the home of my parents. The Argonautica And methought that an ancient man that was with Her, told me that My Lady had lost no whit of her maidenhood for the Child. The High History of the Holy Graal Ye have seen my child -- the Water-lily, as ye call her -- grow year by year, from tenderest infancy to tender childhood, and from childhood on towards maidenhood. Allan Quatermain And last night I saw again what I had seen then—that strange and lovely miracle—the sweet, soft contours of early maidenhood restored by the gracious hand of death! What Is Man? and Other Essays As light a flush As hardly tints the blossom of the quince Would mar their charm of stainless maidenhood.' Idylls of the King His hair is white with age, but he still has a lust for tender maidenhood. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 "Some are born old maids, some achieve old maidenhood, and some have old maidenhood thrust upon them," parodied Miss Lavendar whimsically. Anne of Avonlea There was in it thankfulness for the past and reverent petition for the future; and when she slept on her white pillow her dreams were as fair and bright and beautiful as maidenhood might desire. Anne of Green Gables Why have the high gods made me wreak their wrath— Forever since my maidenhood to sow Sorrow and blood about me? Helen of Troy and Other Poems She was his now, to have and to hold, to keep, to protect, and to defend—she who was once so glorious of her strength, of her savage isolation, her inviolate, pristine maidenhood. Moran of the Lady Letty It may be a charm, but it is certainly not the orthodox charm of marriageable maidenhood, the charm of shrinking innocence and soft docility. Roderick Hudson The recuperative power which pervaded organic nature was surely not denied to maidenhood alone. Tess of the d'Urbervilles So bountiful Nature, then in the first blush of maidenhood, doubtless brought the long-lived Patriarch through his nine hundred and sixty-nine years without once calling in the family medical adviser. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 04, April 23, 1870 The religion of the future will honor and revere motherhood, wifehood and maidenhood. The Woman's Bible It is etiquette for a bride to bewail the approaching loss of her maidenhood. Redemption and two other plays Time passes, my baby has suddenly flown, And left me a daughter to maidenhood grown. Grandma's Memories Nature, in her fantastic trickery, had set such a seal of maidenhood upon Tess's countenance that he gazed at her with a stupefied air. Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thus was the first lie spoken that converted all her frank, proud maidenhood to a memory. Sanine The exuberant joy of her unformed maidenhood, with its power of self- direction, attracted the reserved, intellectual nature of Mr. Thaxter. Authors and Friends And he too rejoiced, seeing the willingness of the monks, and his sister grown old in maidenhood, and herself the leader of other virgins. The Hermits How the bright years have flown Since I was a child scarce to maidenhood grown! Grandma's Memories It is a rare book that is worthy to hold the attention of maidenhood on a June morning. An Algonquin Maiden A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada See, they are fallen on sleep, these beldames oid, Unto whose grim and wizened maidenhood Nor god nor man nor beast can e'er draw near. The House of Atreus And even had she retained the vivid beauty and plenitude of her maidenhood, it would have been just the same. The Mountebank And they had grown to maidenhood with, seemingly, the same features, the same voices, the same tastes, and with an unbounded love for and confidence in each other. The Girls of Central High Aiding the Red Cross Or Amateur Theatricals for a Worthy Cause All maidens bear the signs of their maidenhood in the form of a little round spot, about an inch in diameter, shaven clean upon the very top of the head. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series In all ages, and with every people, the arcana of life and death, the mysteries of birth, childhood, puberty, adolescence, maidenhood, womanhood, manhood, motherhood, fatherhood, have called forth the profoundest thought and speculation. The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Taking joy in the thought that she should go to him a maid, she ceased at last to resent the maidenhood that had been imposed upon her. The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series And, men, too, violating a chaste and loving wife who hath from her maidenhood observed the vow of purity, became guilty of the same sin. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva Because the wild-rose wears the blush That once made sweet her maidenhood, Its thought makes June of barren bush And empty wood? Poems The voice and the singing were but the natural expression of that charming maidenhood. From the Easy Chair — Volume 01 Why should he be expected to differ from his contemporaries in this matter, and wish his niece a worse end of her charming maidenhood than they would approve as the best possible? Daniel Deronda To the glowing beauty of her maidenhood Margaret has added the serene beauty of motherhood. The Yeoman Adventurer She was also fair to see in her royal maidenhood. Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 2 Touch him not—do not sully your maidenhood with thing so vile. Peregrine's Progress Perhaps it was only the freshness, the ignorance, the timidity of young maidenhood—that mystery of possibilities of a nature that has not yet met the world and received its impress for good or evil. David Poindexter's Disappearance, and Other Tales With all her imaginative delight in being adored, there was a certain fierceness of maidenhood in her. Daniel Deronda He had robbed her of a thing frailer and rarer than maidenhood—the sacramental love of Nature. Gone to Earth Her would I sing, and of the shy retreat Where Love first kissed her wondering maidenhood, And He and She first stood, with eyes afraid, In the most golden House that God has made. English Poems It seemed a sort of maidenhood, My little power for public good,— Oh keep it uncorrupted, pray! Robert Louis Stevenson, an Elegy; and Other Poems The custom old, Accadia thinks is good, They all are young and fresh with maidenhood; The ugly ones as well, shall husbands have, And their young lives from shame thus they will save. Babylonian and Assyrian Literature "Seven Times Two" shows the girl standing at the entrance to maidenhood, books closed and lessons said, longing for the years to go faster to bring to her the happiness she imagines is waiting. De La Salle Fifth Reader The coupling of the ideas of Vessons and maidenhood was so funny that Reddin burst out laughing and forgot his anger. Gone to Earth "Master, master, let me go—I will see—" With the swiftness of alarmed maidenhood, she took refuge in her chamber, as she had done once before. Doctor Pascal That uncorrupted maidenhood, My little power for public good. Robert Louis Stevenson, an Elegy; and Other Poems The day and hour has come for them to stand And meet the bidders from all Sumir's land; The day that ends their maidenhood, and brings Them joy or not. Babylonian and Assyrian Literature And presently, I felt her to stir in mine arms; and I loost her somewhat; for I did be always very mindful that I impose not upon her dear liberty of maidenhood. The Night Land From blooming maidenhood to gray-headed age, all will adorn themselves with flowers. The Youthful Wanderer An Account of a Tour through England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Yet will my perfume-laden soul bring back, As a sweet memory, to women's hearts Their days of maidenhood. English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World Something in his eyes—the pity, the indignation, the wonder that this exquisitely refined specimen of maidenhood should be bent to such base uses—shone in them and stopped her. At Love's Cost An exultant shout bubbles up in the water, and then the heroic defender of crabbed maidenhood leads his beloved to view the remains of this ravager of hard-shell rights. Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 29, October 15, 1870 No lord in the land need have looked for a purer or sweeter example of maidenhood than this daughter of a Yorkshire farmer was, in her simple dress, and with the dignity of love. Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale Girls are to grow wiser, and to avoid what must bring harm, but still to keep the attractive freshness of maidenhood. Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out Then the eldest, just on the threshold of sweet young maidenhood, faded like a flower, until she, too, said good-night and slept beside her mother. The Moccasin Maker Also maidenhood of body without wem is common to them all, and so is birth also. Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus "Surely," said the maiden, blushing, "there can be nought beyond the bounds of maidenhood, in my seeing the noble Constable whenever such is his pleasure." The Betrothed Mr. Cheese is going to read me a sermon he has written upon the maidenhood of Lot's wife. The Potiphar Papers Now these are a sort of flower of maidenhood--' 'You are getting quite poetical, Lily.' The Two Sides of the Shield He lost his awe of her maidenhood and her innocence—he wooed her, he lured her on; he rejoiced in his power to agitate her, to startle her, to speak to her about secret things. Love's Pilgrimage Philosophers dispute whether it is the promise of what she will be in the careless school-girl, that makes her attractive, the undeveloped maidenhood, or the mere natural, careless sweetness of childhood. The Gilded Age, Part 1. This human wastage is worse upon the race than war; and all the more pathetic because it consists of girls scarcely past the threshold of their maidenhood. Problems of Conduct Mrs. Potiphar, ask the Rev. Cream Cheese to omit his sermon upon the maidenhood of Lot's wife, and preach from this text: 'They that sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind.' The Potiphar Papers That is surely the next degree of honor to which you rise when you lose your maidenhood. Comedies by Holberg : Jeppe of the Hill, The Political Tinker, Erasmus Montanus He would have been at a loss for words to describe the extraordinary sense of purity that Corydon gave to him; it was not simply her maidenhood—it was something far more rare than that. Love's Pilgrimage As for Florinda's story, her name had been bestowed upon her by a painter who had wished it to signify that the flower of her maidenhood was still unplucked. Jacob's Room But neither priest nor alien could make it shame for maidenhood to choose which way its utmost honor lies. Guns of the Gods From childhood she had passed into maidenhood with a dower of wealth and beauty, learning early, like Marian, that many of her own race were willing to become her slaves. An Original Belle The council has unanimously elected the master burgomaster, mistress madam burgomaster, and decreed Engelke out of mere maidenhood into the degree of young lady. Comedies by Holberg : Jeppe of the Hill, The Political Tinker, Erasmus Montanus It is not love you feel, but the changing fancies of maidenhood. The Maid of the Whispering Hills Now she brushed shoulders with them daily, and her own maidenhood was soiled by the contact. The Auction Block She moved now around the water, in a measured cadence that by some unfathomable witchery of her devising conveyed a thought of maidenhood and modesty. Guns of the Gods For filling my heart with purest pleasure in the intimate companionship of fresh and fragrant maidenhood? The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel His tainted gaze got the faint pure touch of color in her face, the reddish tinge of her wavy brown hair, the desirable sweetness of her rounded maidenhood. A Texas Ranger And queen of all this peaceful scene-appeared the metropolis of Australia, with its white houses, lofty spires, and thronged wharves-thus she appeared-sitting in the prime of youth, laying aside her maidenhood to wed the world. The Duke's Prize; a Story of Art and Heart in Florence So long as you are free I will love you; and so long as your maidenhood gives the opportunity, I shall tell you of that love. Leah Mordecai You have discarded everything that men—marrying men—the right sort of men—demand in maidenhood. The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel Especially was she free from that worldliness and levity which so often mars young maidenhood. The Allen House This passed, and the arrival found her bright as ever; the pink of modern maidenhood, fancy free. The Crown of Life Of Mrs. Jacox he wrote as he now spoke, with compassionate respect, and the girls, according to him, were exquisite models of budding maidenhood. Born in Exile It was a lovely sight, this assembled school; for where is the heart that does not see with unspeakable pleasure the dawning beauty of innocent, careless maidenhood? Leah Mordecai His son seemed likely to follow in his steps, and was meanwhile applying the same arts to the conquest of the Starkfield maidenhood. Ethan Frome It was a sensation of shame which came upon her, a tremor of maidenhood in re-living, swift instant by instant, all that had just passed. A Life's Morning Transition from maidenhood to what is called the matronly had been too rapid; it was emphasised by her costume, which cried aloud in its excess of modish splendour. The Crown of Life Their toilet suited ill with that of their mother; its plainness and negligence might have passed muster in London, but here, under the lucent sky, it seemed a wrong to their budding maidenhood. Born in Exile On the one hand, Cecily with her unsullied maidenhood; and on the other, Elgar with his reckless experiences—contrasts which so commonly have a mutual attraction. The Emancipated She put her palms before her face; her maidenhood shamed to speak of these things even to her bosom friend. Demos She was his wife, yet guarded as by maidenhood. In the Year of Jubilee Had she not, in the common way of maidenhood, as good as accepted Arnold Jacks' proposal? The Crown of Life She was at rest, the pure, the gentle, at rest in her maidenhood. Thyrza Not seldom, in looking back upon her childhood and maidenhood. The Emancipated Her way of speaking the last sentence would have amused a dispassionate critic, it was so distinctively the tone of Puritan maidenhood. Demos Jane had come to be his ideal of maidenhood, but till this moment he had not understood the full significance of the feeling with which he regarded her. The Nether World A slow and subtle modification of her features was tending to a mature beauty which would make bolder claim than the charm that had characterised her in maidenhood. The Whirlpool How could I have known anything of the elusiveness in her maidenhood before which he knelt so reverently? The Red Planet In Cecily were blended a fresh loveliness and a grace as of maidenhood with the perfect charm of wedded youth. The Emancipated The scent of undergrowths, which always brought back to her the glad days of maidenhood, filled her with the hopelessness of the future. Demos Perversity, thy name is maidenhood; and maidenhood, thy name is delicious inconsequence! Alice of Old Vincennes She wondered how she could have conceived such a thought of Sibyl, who, dressed so simply, had a girlish air, a beauty as of maidenhood. The Whirlpool Then, fearing for her maidenhood in so great solitude, she trembled, and more than any evil she knew dreaded that she knew not. Marius the Epicurean — Volume 1 Would she outrage her maidenhood by acknowledgment of De Montespan's title to consideration? Prince Eugene and His Times They were strange stories, half recollected from a childhood which, had promised better things than a maidenhood of garret misery, half Emma's own invention. Demos Netty was, no doubt, engaged in these and other golden dreams of maidenhood as she walked in the Saski Gardens this March morning. The Vultures Of her childhood, her early maidenhood, what conception had he? The Whirlpool As light a flush As hardly tints the blossom of the quince Would mar their charm of stainless maidenhood.' Alfred Tennyson A sense of duty had compelled my mother to part with the man who had won her heart, in the first days of her maidenhood; and my father had discovered it, after his marriage. The Guilty River She was superior to her superiors and to the specimens of maidenhood—supposed to be perfect socially—who gathered about to hear her talk, to hear her sing, declaim, or imitate. The Titan An old woman tended her; and when the girl was grown to maidenhood she asked the old woman, “Where do you go so often?” The Golden Bough A tower of brass, one would have said, And locks, and bolts, and iron bars, And guards as strict as in the heat of wars Might have preserved one innocent maidenhood. Cowley's Essays That class, by the way, is largely made up of widows, I find; so don't consider it a slur on maidenhood.' Jo's Boys She was my first glimpse of fresh young maidenhood, and I was filled with pleasant interest and desirous of more acquaintance with this phenomenon. The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza She took up music again, and languages, drawing, painting, and the other long-discarded delights of her maidenhood. A Double Barrelled Detective Story Many a worthy villager envied him his power over unsophisticated maidenhood—a power which seemed sometimes to have a touch of the weird and wizardly in it. Life's Little Ironies Peppina's confession had roused her maidenhood to a theoretical knowledge of certain things in life, of certain cruel phases of man's selfishness and lust which, till then, she had never envisaged. A Spirit in Prison A much closer bond, the bond between husband and wife, united them, for when Esther had grown to maidenhood, Mordecai had espoused her. The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4 Then came chromatic scales of colour; combinations meant to vulgarise the rainbow; sinfonies and fugues; the twittering of birds and the great peace of dewy nature; maidenhood in her awakening innocence; "The Dawn in June." Democracy, an American novel He went even back to her maidenhood: how did he know this was not the legitimate sequence of other secret schoolgirl escapades. The Argonauts of North Liberty When thou hast heard his name upon The bugles of the cherubim, Begin thou softly to unzone Thy girlish bosom unto him, And softly to undo the snood That is the sign of maidenhood. The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 So that it seemed eminently proper to invite a number of people to his house, and, from the array of San Francisco maidenhood, to select a daughter-in-law. Mrs. Skagg's Husbands and Other Stories His wife, on the other hand, had a pretty figure, which still retained—they were childless—the rounded freshness of maidenhood. Tales of Trail and Town It had, in all probability, so my uncle conceived, tried to suggest wicked thoughts and to tempt to wicked actions but she, in her saintly maidenhood, had passed on undefiled by evil thought or deed. The Poor Clare She had completed twenty-four years of her existence, had refused several desirable offers, and wished nothing better than to retain her maidenhood. Samuel Brohl and Company Love is the flower of maidenhood; Love is the fruit of mortal pain; And she hath winter in her blood. The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 These are in imitation of the squash blossom, which is the Hopi symbol of maidenhood and purity. The Grand Canyon of Arizona; how to see it She kept her maidenhood from every wight, To no man deigned she for to be bond. The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems Even at Rome the perpetual maidenhood of the Vestals was a unique observance; and they were the keepers of the hearth-fire of the city, not the intermediaries between it and its gods. Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology Her heart was not in her marriage, and that last hour of her maidenhood had been an hour of anguish and struggle. The Filigree Ball Being a full and true account of the solution of the mystery concerning the Jeffrey-Moore affair My children, for love of money all our fairest fruits and flowers—yea, even to the best blossoms of our maidenhood—were sent to be bought and sold in Paris. Stories By English Authors: France (Selected by Scribners) He modelled, among other things, a beautiful little statue of maidenhood gathering a snowdrop. The Marble Faun - Volume 2 The Romance of Monte Beni 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 Thou hoardest thy maidenhood; and to what profit? for when thou art gone to Hades thou wilt not find a lover, O girl. Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology The reader must know those interesting children bursting like fragrant flowers into the bloom of their maidenhood; they are the sisters of Louis, Alvira and Aloysia. Alvira, the Heroine of Vesuvius Hate of me, Because of late I smote her, being in wrath Forgetful of her noble maidenhood, Stung her for shame's sake to take hands with shame. Rosamund, queen of the Lombards, a tragedy Later she disclaims both her father and her maidenhood. The Valet's tragedy, and other studies Here he knelt again, drinking in the tremulous song of the bird, as tremulous as youth and maidenhood, until at last it ceased with a sweet uncompleted cry of longing. Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard As the sun-clear days of maidenhood melted imperceptibly into summer glow and winter spaces, the memory of Wilfred's face and voice sometimes surprised her at unexpected turns of solitary musings. Lahoma It is always easy to have the leaves pared away; but not even the fabled fountain at Argos, in which Hera yearly renewed her maidenhood, could restore margins once clipped away. The Library Make not thou Out of her shamefast maidenhood and fear A sword to cleave your happiness in twain. Rosamund, queen of the Lombards, a tragedy The nearer marriage approached, the more did I need to summon all my strength, my resolution, and my affection to face this terrible passage from maidenhood to womanhood. Letters of Two Brides Yet, even then, men with the eagle power of vision said to thee in a glance, 'Thou shalt perish ingloriously, because thou hast fallen away, because thou hast broken the vows of thy maidenhood. Christ in Flanders Her maidenhood has no interest for us; all our interest is fixed on her widowhood. Bunyan Characters (2nd Series) Does your heart yearn back with last regret For the maiden meads of mignonette And the fairy-haunted wood, That you had not withheld from love, A little while, the freedom of Your happy maidenhood? Songs, Merry and Sad Thou knowest I love thy noble Hildegard: And rather would I give my soul to burn Than wrong in thought her flawless maidenhood. Rosamund, queen of the Lombards, a tragedy She asked it prettily, with a smile like that of maidenhood. New Grub Street Know that thy maidenhood is not for long, Whom the Phoeacian chiefs already woo, Lords of the land whence thou thyself art sprung. Sanitary and Social Lectures, etc It's my day of joy and perfect peace—the day I've dreamed of since the dawn of maidenhood. The Foolish Virgin The noble ladies about her, too, and these mendicant friars that were sent to hold inquisition concerning her at Domremy, had found in her nothing but simplicity and holy maidenhood, pity and piety. A Monk of Fife For she was as it were beginning her career anew; literally to her was this a new world; and she felt for a moment as if in her first blushing maidenhood of song. The Life of Phineas T. Barnum And so exquisitely fresh in her twenty years of maidenhood, with bright young eyes that seemed to bid defiance to all the years to come. New Grub Street But this strange bloom, by sun and wind unwooed, Seems to expand and blossom 'mid the snows, A lily sceptreless, a scentless rose, For dainty listlessness of maidenhood. A Distinguished Provincial at Paris When Leah grew to maidenhood, and inquired about her future husband, all her tidings spoke of his villainous character, and she wept over her fate until her eyelashes dropped from their lids. The Legends of the Jews — Volume 1 Let any man think for five minutes of what old maidenhood means to a woman—and then let him be silent. The Story of an African Farm, a novel The bride of every sense! more sweet than those Who breathe the violet breath of maidenhood. Poems — Volume 1 Einar Tamberskelver, bare To the winds his golden hair, By the mainmast stood; Graceful was his form, and slender, And his eyes were deep and tender As a woman's, in the splendor Of her maidenhood. The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Of the homes that were offered Mliss when her conversion became known, the master preferred that of Mrs. Morpher, a womanly and kindhearted specimen of Southwestern efflorescence, known in her maidenhood as the "Per-rairie Rose." Selected Stories of Bret Harte And yet the gift I give is good: In one man's eyes to see The worship of your maidenhood While children climb your knee. The Second Book of Modern Verse; a selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets Believe me, love, it is not goodTo hoard a mortal maidenhood;In Hades thou wilt never find,Maiden, a lover to thy mind;Love’s for the living! presentlyAshes and dust in death are we! Grass of Parnassus She breathed the violet breath of maidenhood Against my kisses once! but I say, No! Poems — Volume 1 He if; not—” Ruth was blushing, but it was the blush of maidenhood called upon for the first time to discuss the sacred things of life with a mother held equally sacred. Martin Eden |
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