101 Words to use with maiden

I used to set them down as half-pay officers, dowagers of narrow income, elderly maiden ladies, and other people of respectability, but small account, such as hang on the world's skirts rather than actually belong to it.

But in the woods or on the playground he was the merriest, most daring, and winningly obstreperous lad that ever filled three maiden aunts with terror and delight.

Rue, likewise, which entered so largely into magic rites, was once much in request as an antidote against such practices; and nowadays, when worn on the person in conjunction with agrimony, maiden-hair, broom-straw, and ground ivy, it is said in the Tyrol to confer fine vision, and to point out the presence of witches.

I well remember her opposition to the ground I took in my 'maiden speech' in faculty meeting, and how, at supper, she stood, before sitting down, to say, 'You were right this afternoon.

O Lady, save thy grace, there is no way For me, I know, but lonely sorrowing Send me a maiden meet for love, I pray!

The state of the marriage of a youth with a maiden differs from that of a youth with a widow.

There wasfond mothers conveyed it to him subtly after supper and champagnean aching void in more than one maiden heart which was his exact fit.

Was not determined to say thee nay; For this same tother thing, call'd maiden-head, Hangs by so small a hair or spider's thread, And worn so too with time, it must needs fall, And, like a well-lur'd hawk, she knows her call.

"This is especially thine own," he said, "in honor of this daythy maiden sword.

All at her work the village maiden sings; Nor while she turns the giddy wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitude of things.'

I have an elfish maiden child; She is not two years old; Through windy locks her eyes gleam wild, With glances shy and bold.

Instead of being composed of the scarcest and most costly flowers arranged in the most elaborate manner, it was a homely nosegay of mere country flowerssome of the favourite ones, says Herrick, being pansy, rose, lady-smock, prick-madam, gentle-heart, and maiden-blush.

Now had she been asked beforehand, Esther might not have sketched out a Mike as the ideal of her maiden dreams, nor indeed might Henry have described an Angelica, any more than perhaps Mike an Esther, or Angelica a Henry.

For a widower has already been initiated into married life which a maiden has to be; and yet conjugial love perceives and is sensible of its pleasantness and delight in mutual initiation; a youth-husband and a maiden-wife perceive and are sensible of things ever new in whatever occurs, whereby they are in a kind of continual initiation and consequent amiable progression.

Longer than usual she sat there, idly and abstractedly turning over the leaves of her Shakspeare, starting and flushing with every chance sound that broke on the still, sweet air; yet no presumptuous intruder disturbed her maiden meditations, and she rose wearily at last, and walked slowly homeward, saying to herself, "It is well.

Now, like a maiden queen, she will behold, From her high turrets, hourly suitors come; The East with incense, and the West with gold, Will stand, like suppliants, to receive her doom!

Great mortality occurs in attempting to breed from maiden bitches exceeding three years of age, as the writer knows to his cost.

"My dear young lady," he said in Russian, "if my personal appearance has made so profound an impression as my vanity prompts me to believe, would it not be decorous of you to conceal your feelings beneath a maiden modesty?

He had pushed Cloud through the mass with the unimpressed carriage of the Indian hunter; and his dreamy eyes were far awayhe listened to other sounds than shouts, perhaps to a maiden singing.

With the same child's heart within her as of old, even as with the child's sweet, timid eyes and clustering hair, Florence, as strange to her father in her early maiden bloom as in her nursery days, crept down to his room and looked in.

Why have they always led A maiden life, and kept untouch'd the flower?

surnam'd of White; Clean, as yet, and fair to sight; Keep thy attribution right, Never disproportion'd scrawl; Ugly blot, that's worse than all; On thy maiden clearness fall.

And as she spoke there stirred in him the long-forgotten aspirations of his youth. "... for indeed I knew Of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the maiden passion for a maid, Not only to keep down the base in man, But teach high thought and amiable words And courtliness, and the desire of fame, And love of truth, and all that makes a man.

XIV "To spare your blushes, and maiden fears, I resorted to these inventions But, Imposture, begone; and avaunt, Disguise!"

Then, that no look of shy happiness, no downward quiver of the maiden eyelids might be lostfor the morsel, now it was within his grasp, was one to linger over and dwell onSir George, his own eyes shining with eagerness, walked his horse forward, his gaze greedily seeking the flutter of her kerchief or the welcome of her hand.

101 Words to use with  maiden