That evening, as Mr. P. sat upon the portico of his hotel, there came unto him, in the moonlight, a maiden of the latest fashion.

Why, these hillsides are decked like a maiden in her beauty, like a bride robed for the altar!

For thy love, maiden with the darksome looks, I wither while thou bear'st a port of oak.

We should have been shuttle-cocked from maiden to mother and from mother to maiden after a fashion calculated to defeat the wise purposes of ipecac and paregoric, and to frighten our natural curls into a state of painful perpendicularity.

And the blind Man was told how you had rescued A maiden from the ruffian violence Of this same Clifford, he became impatient And would not hear me.

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

In fact, Mr. P. was afraid that his vessel would fill up before he was near enough for the maiden on the rocks to hear his heart-rending cries for succor.

Thus, on the Continent, many a lover puts the four-leaved clover under his pillow to dream of his lady-love; and in our own country, daisy-roots are used by the rustic maiden for the same purpose.

Jack may have believed this himself, for he took no pains to disabuse the maidens as to the inefficacy of the rite, and bore with galliard fortitude the wear and tear of the nascent mustache, without which, to his mind, a soldier would figure very much as a monk without a shaven crown or a mandarin without a queue.

She still has youth, and beauty, and desire; But each full throb of her true, wifely heart Beats for her lord, though he be gone,all else In life is naught to her but Christalan, And Greane, the winsome maiden by her side.

He lifted the transformed maiden into the vase, and caressed her beauty with an exulting but careful hand.

Many a summer afternoon have I rowed joyously with these same maidens beneath these steep and garlanded shores; many a time have they pulled the heavy four-oar, with me as coxswain at the helm,the said patient steersman being oft-times insulted by classical allusions from rival boats, satirically comparing him to an indolent Venus drawn by doves, whi

There is no prouder maiden among the donne nobile on the Canal Grande.

An Anglo-Saxon maiden without a rope ladder in the pocket of her basque was a rare sight.

This inn seems to me no place for a young maiden like thee.

We should have been shuttle-cocked from maiden to mother and from mother to maiden after a fashion calculated to defeat the wise purposes of ipecac and paregoric, and to frighten our natural curls into a state of painful perpendicularity.

There was in truth no serious ground for this apprehension, so natural to one in the place of the Baron de Willading; for, until thought, and reflection paled her cheek, a more blooming maiden than Adelheid, or one that united more perfect health with feminine delicacy, did not dwell among her native mountains.

You know, I hoped you were some local maiden before whom I could pose as a heroic rescuer.

The lady had a maiden near her person, whom she had long held and nourished.

These orders were executed without delay, and while Hartmut was preparing for his wedding on the morrow, Gudrun, again clad in royal attire, with her maidens around her, whispered the tidings of their coming deliverance.

And thou, celestial warrior, that didst deliver the maiden out of the serpent's mouth, if I have ever lit humble taper on thine altar, and set before thee offerings of gold and incense, be, I implore thee, her advocate.

The presence of Sigismund, so far as she was concerned, was purely accidental, although she could not prevent the pleasing idea from obtrudingan idea so grateful to her womanly affections and maiden pridethat the young soldier, who was in the service of Austria, and who had become known to her in one of his frequent visits to his native land, had gladly seized this favorable occasion to return to his colors.

So, having drawn his sword, he ran the maiden through the body, at the same time reproaching her with these words: "Go hence with thy ill-timed love to thy spouse, forgetful of thy brothers that are dead, and of the one who survivesforgetful of thy country.

But ere he could the eager phrase repeat, The phrase his manly fancy found so sweet, The modest maiden toward him turned her face: Her eyes met his a moment's rapturous space, She spoke, her firm glance faltering scarce a jot, "I'd rather not.

A young nun in a Saxon convent, for instance, would write little dramas in Latin for the amusement and edification of the noble maidens under her charge.