"I'll try, but it was a very ungentlemanly thing to do, I didn't think you could be so sly and malicious, Laurie," replied Meg, trying to hid her
maidenly confusion under a gravely reproachful air.
It was betrayed in the unconscious smile with which he regarded Phoebe, whose fresh and
maidenly figure was both sunshine and flowers,--their essence, in a prettier and more agreeable mode of manifestation.
I have heard it said too that the arrows of Love are blunted and robbed of their points by
maidenly modesty and reserve; but with this Altisidora it seems they are sharpened rather than blunted."
Her pity could not be of the common sort, when the man who drew it was so much man as to shock her with
maidenly fears and set her mind and pulse thrilling with strange thoughts and feelings.
it is a passing strange thing to me to think that it was but in the last fall of the leaf that we walked from Lyndhurst together, he so gentle and
maidenly, and you, John, like a great red-limbed overgrown moon-calf; and now here you are as sprack a squire and as lusty an archer as ever passed down the highway from Bordeaux, while I am still the same old Samkin Aylward, with never a change, save that I have a few more sins on my soul and a few less crowns in my pouch.
'"Our dear mother," faltered the fair Alice, "was living when these long tasks began, and bade us, when she should be no more, ply them in all discretion and cheerfulness, in our leisure hours; she said that if in harmless mirth and
maidenly pursuits we passed those hours together, they would prove the happiest and most peaceful of our lives, and that if, in later times, we went forth into the world, and mingled with its cares and trials--if, allured by its temptations and dazzled by its glitter, we ever forgot that love and duty which should bind, in holy ties, the children of one loved parent--a glance at the old work of our common girlhood would awaken good thoughts of bygone days, and soften our hearts to affection and love."
Eyes and voice and gestures were freighted with mysterious messages of love in hours of ecstasy like these, and this was the only language permitted me by the quiet
maidenly reserve of the young girl before me.
'We should allow some margin for little
maidenly delicacies in a young motherless creature, under such circumstances, I suppose; it is not in my line; what do you think?'
Even in her lapse into madness and death, she remains
maidenly, singing songs about ?owers and ?nally drowning in the river amid the ?ower garlands she had gathered.
Absence of an economist meant that the portfolio of Finance will be
maidenly handled by Nirmala Sitharaman, of course with MA in Economics from JNU.
(8) Not many years after the famous Lucretia had fought unsuccessfully for her honour and chastity--a fight that brought her nothing but disaster and an untimely death--, Verginia's tragic defence of her own
maidenly modesty appears in the narrative and would end up having the same important political consequences for Rome which Lucretia's death had had:
As every elector at once must agree, With his long sword and his feather so white, A soldier, who ne'er heard the sound of a gun, And whose
maidenly arms are as chaste as a nun-- A vet'ran who yet has his battles to win, And whose laurels would seem to be much of a kin To his long sword and his feather so white!
So the young woman was fascinating, not at all because of plastic beauty of form, but because she possessed something rare in antique sculpture, a realistic, simple,
maidenly grace which gave the impression of imparting life to the relief.
