He had two sons: Camille, the lieutenant: and August, an artist of some originality, who was the husband of a charming wife, and the father of a little six-year-old maiden named Andrée.

And, like the timid lambs that crowd with bleatings in the fold, When they advancing to their throats the furious wolf behold, The lovely Moorish maidens, with wet but flashing eyes, Are crowded in a public square and fill the air with cries; And tho', like tender women, 'tis vain for them to arm, Yet loudly they re-echo the words of the alarm.

Then again, besides the main gods, the world according to Hindu belief, which in this respect closely resembles that of the ancient Greeks, is peopled with Asuras (demons), Devkanya (wood-nymphs), Nag-kanya (the serpent-maidens of Patâla), and Gandharwas (a kind of cherubim).

The ladies also, particularly the violet-eyed maiden, who seemed to be the especial guardian of the little ones, would draw near to look and listen.

The writer exhibits some skill in showing how this fiery spirit is tamed by the gentle maiden, Bellina.

Praise of a Maiden~ O sweet maiden, so fair and retiring, At the corner I'm waiting for you; And I'm scratching my head, and inquiring What on earth it were best I should do.

Susan Colgate was a pretty maiden at Jamestown, whose charms John Stevens had praised in his wife's presence.

Vainly did I try every innocent wile that a modest maiden may permit herself: he was ever the friend, never the lover.

"But to none of those golden-haired maidens who danced at his fête would he show favor, though upon his birthnight.

But more; they used to talk of three Graces: they fancied that they were goddessesspirits of some kind in the shape of beautiful, and amiable, and innocent maidens, who took delight in going about the world and making people happy and amiable like themselves; and they used to make images of these graces, and pray to them to make them lovely, and happy, and agreeable.

With a violent effort he steadied himself by grasping a tree, and had hardly accomplished so much when a tall dark maiden, straight as an arrow, slim as an antelope, wildly beautiful as a Dryad, but liker a Maenad with her aspect of mingled disdain and dismay, and step hasty as of one pursuing or pursued, suddenly checked her speed on perceiving him.

Plants have always been largely used for testing the fidelity of lovers, and at the present day are still extensively employed for this purpose by the rustic maiden.

General Custer, who was one of the hunting party, carried on a mild flirtation with one of Spotted Tail's daughters, who had accompanied her father thither, and it was noticed also that the Duke Alexis paid considerable attention to another handsome red-skin maiden.

It was a Sabbath day, and every burgher maiden in Basel that boasted a sweetheart would be abroad with him in the sunshine.

She was a charming little maiden of twelve or thirteen, this visitor,a charming little maiden with the darkest of dark hair that hung in a thick shining braid tied at the end with a broad red ribbon.

he muttered to himself; "methinks I see a paleface toying with a dusky maiden.

"How blest," wrote two cynical satirists of society in the same period: "How blest the prudent man, the maiden pure, Whose income is both ample and secure, Arising from Consolidated Three Per cent Annuities, paid quarterly.

Pekuah was never so much charmed with any place as the convent of St. Anthony, where the Arab restored her to the princess, and wished only to fill it with pious maidens, and to be made prioress of the order: she was weary of expectation and disgust, and would gladly be fixed in some unvariable state.

O the lover and his company Will fight them man to man All shrieking from the conflict The merry maidens fly There's a Battle Royal raging now across the Northern Sky.

I am A lonely maiden, and friends I have none;

My mother made it of wild flowers." "And will your mother pity me, Who am a maiden most forlorn?

"'O Theodore!' whispered the unhappy maiden to the moaning trees.

Eagerly I wished the morrow;vainly I had sought to borrow, From my books, surcease of sorrow,sorrow for the lost Lenore, For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore, Nameless here for evermore.

Thus Sir John Mandeville tells us how when a holy maiden of Bethlehem, "blamed with wrong and slandered," was doomed to death by fire, "she made her prayers to our Lord that He would help her, as she was not guilty of that sin;" whereupon the fire was suddenly quenched, and the burning brands became red "roseres," and the brands that were not kindled became white "roseres" full of roses.

Emma was a plump, rosy, fair-haired typical English maiden, full of frolic and harmless fun; I a very slight, pale, black-haired girl, alternating between wild fun and extreme pensiveness.