Maidens

Examples

• Let all young men present mark this: 'The maidens all flocked to his boat so readily. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The maidens of Valhalla look forth, The race of Hengist will send them guests. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Quickly I ordered fifty of the prisoners to drop back behind us and form a new circle about the maidens. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Afterwards a number of maidens, with vine-leaf-decorated amphoras of wine, baskets of figs, and bunches of grapes. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• I'll trouble you for a pin, my dear, said Armstrong to one of his attendant maidens. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Most of these maidens were not wealthy, but some few had been very kindly dealt with by fortune. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• One of the maidens presented a silver cup, containing a rich mixture of wine and spice, which Rowena barely put to her lips. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• That room was their boat; that audience were the maidens; and he (Mr. Anthony Humm), however unworthily, was 'first oars' (unbounded applause). Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• When they entered, they found themselves in the presence of about twenty matrons and maidens of distinguished Saxon lineage. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Shake your black tresses, maidens of Valhalla! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• But, was it the maidens of humble life only, who soothed, consoled, and supported him? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Now enters the chorus proper of young Greek maidens, dressed in black stoles, to denote the sorrowful condition of their country. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Sir Templar, said he, the cheeks of our Saxon maidens have seen too little of the sun to enable them to bear the fixed glance of a crusader. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The sisterhood, the maidens, flocking round the young waterman, and urging him along the stream of duty and of temperance. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• To look for a glove that was dropped by one of the maidens. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• But there is no question that these picturesque maidens sadly lack comeliness. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Here the horrid creature squatted, surrounded by a hundred slave maidens sparkling in jewelled trappings. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• On the master thereof, on the mistress thereof, on the young maidens, and on the young men! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• A hundred maidens would have had him if he'd asked 'em, said the wide woman. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• She is at the most dangerous period for maidens as well as mares, said the old man, laughing at his own jest, being barely in her fifteenth year. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• At length the apes spied the huddled knot of terror-stricken maidens and with demoniacal shrieks of bestial frenzy, charged upon them. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• I should not have liked to be amongst the number of the maidens. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Maidens refuse, Lovers propose, Just as they choose, Under the rose. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.

Edited by Cheryl