Margaret was not out of her element; on the contrary, she at first had the sensation of finding herself amongst rather grave and not uncongenial English people, not so very different from those with whom she had spent her early girlhood at Oxford.

Hood, in his "Bridge of Sighs," brings you into the presence of death, and you gaze, weeping, over the lifeless form of beauty that had once been innocent and blooming girlhood, but from which the spirit, early soiled and saddened, took violent flight in its despair; Crabbe would give us the record of her sins, and connect her end retributively with her conduct.

It haunted her like the memory of a bad dream and brought into stronger contrast her own girlhood in New York, with its nurses and governesses and the sheltered life she had led under their care and supervision.

She exhibits one side of her own intense, brooding girlhood, in the passionate heroine, Maggie Tulliver.

My engagement was a season of doubt and conflictdoubt as to the wisdom of changing a girlhood of freedom and enjoyment for I knew not what, and conflict because the step I proposed was in opposition to the wishes of all my family.

Mrs. Burton was at this time a comely dame, whose embonpoint contour, however indicative of florid health and serenity of temper, exhibited little of the airy elegance and grace said to have distinguished the girlhood of Elizabeth Gainsford.

Don't make me fear my own happy girlhood by talking to me about loveoh, don't!

But if it was true that I was grown a man, it was truer still that she was grown a woman, and as tall as I. And these recent sufferings had taken from her something of light and frolic girlhood, and left her with a manner more staid and sober.

Even as her womanhood had come to fulfill her girlhood, so Aaron King had come into her life to fulfill her womanhood.

Avery Denys was a woman who had left her girlhood wholly behind her.

One tragedy had marked her early girlhood.

The first step of security was in naming her for the chaste Saint Agnes, and placing her girlhood under her special protection.

No one but a grown woman who still vividly remembers her girlhood can appreciate my feelings as I drove from Bursley to Hanbridge in the cab, and as I got out of the cab in the crowd, and gave up my ticket, and entered the glittering auditorium of the Jubilee Hall.

She retraced her steps and waited for two hours at the station, reconstructing for herself Ann's girlhood in Centralia and thinking larger thoughts of the things which spoiled girlhoods, the pity of it all.

She was no beauty, and had suffered all her girlhood by reason of the same, being set aside and looked down on.

Never girl had, I venture to say, a brighter girlhood than mine.

though suddenly she had dropped a few years and was again beginning that girlhood which I sometimes thought she had never had.

It may be urged that there exist already organizations world-wide in their scope, such as the religious associations, for the very purpose of safeguarding wandering girlhood.