Use maiden in a sentence
Sentences starting with maiden
- Maiden speeches like this were not common. [11]
Sentences ending with maiden
- Besides, the escutcheon with the count's coronet had given the knight assurance that he would have no cause to be ashamed, in an assembly of his peers, of his alliance with the Nuremberg maiden. [10]
- He now suddenly wished that brighter light might dispel the gloom which just now he had found so restful; for the lady Euryale's demeanor would show him whether Melissa were still a virtuous maiden. [10]
- Such a confession will probably flow more easily from the lips when sought by the person for whom it means happiness or despair, than when a stranger--even one as old and friendly as I--seeks to draw it from a modest maiden. [10]
- The laughing loves who twined their rose garlands around him and Helena's predecessors had nothing to do with this grave maiden. [10]
- The quiet longing which had mastered him was transformed into passionate yearning, but he restrained it by exerting all the strength of will peculiar to him, for a voice within cried out that he was too insignificant for this marvellous maiden. [10]
- He had hoped to win the reward which was offered for the recovery of the fugitive, and had promised his colleague half the money if he would help him to capture the maiden. [10]
- But I desired to have a still firmer one unite us, and since your parents are dead, and I cannot go with the bridal dower to Amram, to buy you from him, I now bring my suit to you in person, high-souled maiden. [10]
- Nay, I intended to cast all the weight of my maternal influence between Heinz and the Nuremberg maiden. [10]
- For some natures there is no nurture of love like the security of family protection, under cover of which there is so little to excite the alarm of a timid maiden. [4]
- The priests on the other bank of the Nile were Bent-Anat's counsellors, and he had heard the princess spoken of as a devout and gifted maiden. [10]
Short sentences using maiden
- Or both, my pretty maiden? [10]
- Courage, courage, Macedonian maiden! [10]
More example sentences with the word maiden in them
- She was the youngest of five maiden sisters, and had arrived at the mature age of eighteen. [4]
- And you, maiden, you will not belie this hope? [10]
- Of course it would be my luck to find a sorrowing and aged maiden aunt of the deceased there, who had arrived from Springfield too late to get into the church. [5]
- Philip searched them with the feverish eagerness of a maiden who scans the report of a battle in which her lover has been engaged. [4]
- You once would willingly have married her, and I ask you, was there a maiden in Thebes--nay in all Egypt--to compare with her for beauty? [10]
- A young man will catch the whole family with this flaming message, but where is that sentiment that once set the maiden heart in a flutter? [4]
- But the maiden whom your fury would cast into the abyss of the river is under the merciful protection of the supreme Church, for the death of her body will bring death to your souls. [10]
- As one to whom it is vouchsafed to stand and gaze at some great prodigy, so Pentaur had stood opposite the royal maiden, uneasy and yet fascinated, agitated, yet with secretly uplifted soul. [10]
- Gamaliel knew in what peril Orion stood, and the fate that hung over the noble maiden who had once given him the costliest of gems, and afterwards entrusted to him a portion of her fortune. [10]
- In these ranks were certain maiden ladies and widows who found in church work an outlet to an otherwise circumscribed existence. [9]
- If this maiden wedded the governor's son, they would indeed be a pair! [10]
- The maiden who was the subject of this whispering, whose purport only a loving glance from the Lady Wendula revealed, pressed her hand upon her heart, whose impetuous throbbing stifled her breath. [10]
- But I wonder, was the maiden really saved? [11]
- There--there alone it was the fate of my grey hairs to be ashamed of my fellow-Moslems--believe me, maiden, it was grievous to me. [10]
- There, for instance, was Patience, the maiden aunt, his father's sister, the news-monger of the fireside, whose powers of ratiocination first gave Philip the Greek idea and method of reasoning to a point and arriving at truth by the process of exclusion. [4]
- And he, who usually flees from every creature wearing a woman's robe, had never forgotten that maiden and her noble beauty; and, though he did not say so, it was obvious, from every word, that he was madly in love. [10]
- Two maiden ladies --unmistakably such, though they appear neither "anxious nor aimless" --within the scoop-top smile benevolently on the sorrel back. [4]
- The priest soon united Heinz and Eva, but the celestial pilgrim willingly resigned the power formerly exerted over the maiden to the husband, who clasped her to his heart with tender love. [10]
- I also became unintentionally acquainted with a secret, which seriously endangered his chances of obtaining the crown; and lastly, I prevented his carrying off a virtuous maiden from the house of her grandmother, an aged woman, beloved and respected by all the Greeks. [10]
- Miss Bronte was too dainty a housekeeper to put up with this; yet she could not bear to hurt the faithful old servant, by bidding the younger maiden go over the potatoes again, and so reminding Tabby that her work was less effectual than formerly. [14]
- Back to life, to the society of men of my own stamp, to reap the praise earned by my own creations, and to the only divine maiden among mortals--to Daphne! [10]
- I have nothing to plead--no, noble maiden, nothing that can excuse the deed of Abyla. [10]
- And I seemed to know that this maiden was nothing else than a representation of the Song of Songs. [2]
- The captain attained to fame in our little world from his maiden address, in which he very shrewdly separated the political character of Mr. Wilkes from his character as a private gentleman, and so refuted a charge of profligacy against the people's champion. [9]
- The latter strove to catch first Chloris, then Dorippe, then some other maiden, but ere she succeeded the chain separated, joining again behind her ere she could turn. [10]
- His heart dictated this, but honour, too, commanded him to restore to the maiden and her sister the fair fame which his passionate impetuosity had injured. [10]
- And here was this unfortunate maiden lady smiling at him, setting her limited attractions in their best light, pleading with him in that natural language which makes any contumacious bachelor feel as guilty as Cain before any single woman. [6]
- Antinous recalled all this and determined to venture on an attempt to see again the maiden whose image filled his heart and brain. [10]
- It was on the Tiber that I met the young maiden who drew me once more into that inner circle which surrounded young womanhood with deadly peril for me, if I dared to pass its limits. [6]
- The doctor remembered the story of Galen, and the young maiden whose complaint had puzzled the physicians. [6]
- Wholly absorbed by the stormy emotions of her heart, the maiden had forgotten time and every external consideration; but the lady Euryale was thoughtful for her, and now led her to her chamber to have her hair dressed for the Circus. [10]
- How could she, the simple maiden whom he had assured of his love, ever have been able to give him up? [10]
- True, I attended the school of oratory, but when my father set the royal maiden a lesson, I was permitted to repeat mine on the same subject, and frequently I could not help admitting that Cleopatra had succeeded better than I. [10]
- Or it was the same stalwart maiden, or another as good, in a boat which stood on end, pulling through the surf with one oar, and dragging a drowning man (in a bathing suit also) into the boat with her free hand. [4]
- The result was the perfection of simplicity, of freshness, of maiden purity, enhanced by the touch of art. [4]
- The maiden heard the old woman's shrill, resounding voice very clearly, but heeded it no more than the cackling of the hens, the screams of the peacocks, and the cooing of the doves in the court-yard. [10]
- We-no-na (first-born) was the name of a maiden who had plighted her troth to a lover belonging to the same band. [5]
- She would be the maiden whom the patriarch had imagined--the real, true Bride of the Nile, inspired to cast off her young life to save her people in their need. [10]
- He entered with the long train under a low arch, and presently he was kneeling in a narrow cell before an image of the Blessed Maiden holding the Divine Child in her arms, and his lips seemed to whisper, Sancta Maria, ora pro nobis! [6]
- If to avoid the fleeting censure of aristocratic friends he left in the lurch the simple barbarian maiden who loved him with ardent passion, it was no evidence of resolute strength of soul, but of pitiful, reprehensible weakness. [10]
- A strange maiden, the daughter of the king of the Danaids, [A people of the Greeks at the time of the Trojan war. [10]
- But where is the dark maiden I saw yesterday? [10]
- So it chanced that when he returned home he ventured to contract a formal betrothal with an honourable maiden of noble lineage, against the explicit desire of her distinguished parents. [10]
- Do you imagine that the maiden who can thus inflame the calmest thinker in Thebes, will not be coveted by a hundred of the common herd when her protector fails her? [10]
- They finally decided that Alexander should try to discover the maiden who so strangely resembled the dead; and the artist was ready for the task, for he could only work when his heart was light, and had never felt such a weight on it before. [10]
- For when Ephraim summoned him, he called you a maiden . [10]
- And on a sudden I flung up my arms and, without knowing what I did, stretched them forth, as though beside myself, towards that hotly-loved maiden. [10]
- Such was the subject-matter of my own modest addresses in this, my maiden campaign. [9]
- Will you--an energetic student, you--a man of powerful intellect, zealous in your duty, and in favor with the gods--will you pine like a deserted maiden or spring from the Leucadian rock like love-sick Sappho in the play while the spectators shake with laughter? [10]
- Princess Mary was still the same timid, plain maiden getting on in years, uselessly and joylessly passing the best years of her life in fear and constant suffering. [2]
- Margaret was to stay some time with two maiden ladies, old friends of her mother, the Misses Arbuser. [4]
- Does the great Speckled Thunder sigh for the war-path, or is his heart contented with dreaming of the dusky maiden, the Pride of the Forest? [5]
- He dwelt with special luxury on the charms which seduced the royal psalmist,--the soldier's wife for whom he broke the commands of the decalogue, and the maiden for whose attentions, in his cooler years, he violated the dictates of prudence and propriety. [6]
- So, father and son silently followed the maiden through the crowded galleries and apartments, into the house of the highpriest. [10]
- Yet there was something between them which had its authority over their lives, overcoming even that maiden modesty which was in contrast to the bold, physical thing she had done in running the Carillon Rapids those centuries ago when she was young and glad-wistfully glad. [11]
- Gifted Hopkins wrote some beautiful verses one day on "A Maiden Weeping. [6]
- The appeal was so charmingly made that every one was moved by it, especially the maiden ladies present, who might be supposed to enter into the feelings of their dusky sisters beyond the seas. [4]
- The brave maiden sighed deeply, and tears rolled down her checks. [10]
- For the moment she seemed to embody all the maiden purity of the scene, all its promise. [4]
- Forgive, if my sentences be broken and imperfect; the time was short, and my capacity only that of a poor and simple maiden. [10]
- The two physicians sent hither from the House of Seti sat on the left side of the maiden on a little carpet. [10]
- The artists who saw the cast wondered if it would be possible to get the bust of the maiden from whom it was taken. [6]
- At Lienhard's right sat his dazzlingly beautiful wife, adorned with plumes and the most superb gold ornaments; at his left was a maiden of extremely peculiar charm. [10]
- Bowing courteously to Ruth, the soldier said: "Take pity on this poor creature, fair maiden, and wash its wound with a little wine. [10]
- The noisy strife round Klea, and the cry of the wounded man had attracted the watch; the Cypriotes and the maiden soon found themselves surrounded, and they were conducted through a narrow side passage into the court-yard of the prison. [10]
- Then Eva's image rose before him, and he had asked himself whether she, the devout maiden, would not thank her saint when she learned that he, obedient to her counsel, was beginning to provide for his eternal salvation. [10]
- The simple people respected her grief, and always made a tender-hearted stillness when the bereft little maiden went through the streets,--a stillness which she never noticed, for she never noticed anything apparently. [4]
- One cannot but respect that tremulous sensitiveness which caused the maiden lady to shrink from staring at the moon when she heard there was a man in it. [4]
- What has happened--I repeat it--grieves me sincerely, and I beg you tell the maiden to whom the accident happened, that her pain is mine. [10]
- But then I remembered how that the maiden nightingale likewise pipes her sweetest only so long as her bosom is full of pining love; but so soon as she has given her heart wholly to her mate, her song grows shorter and less tender. [10]
- This could only refer to Melissa, and it was this news which had caused him to urge the maiden to instant flight. [10]
- The royal maiden pressed her hand to her heart, and, like one who is thirsty, drank in the pure air of the mountain valley with deeply drawn breath; she felt as if released from some overwhelming burden, as if delivered from some frightful danger. [10]
- Thus knowledge and power found their way to the simple and secluded maiden. [6]
- Alas for the perversity of maiden natures! [9]
- Then some other people ran in and began dragging away the maiden who had been in white and was now in light blue. [2]
- And on its pages I saw a beautiful representation of a maiden in transparent garments and with a transparent body, flying up to the clouds. [2]
- Love for Eva Ortlieb held his master as if in a vise; but a Schorlin seemed to him far too good a match for a Nuremberg maiden who had grown up among sacks of pepper and chests of goods and, moreover, was a somnambulist. [10]
- This was the only purchase I ever knew to be made at the shop kept by the three maiden ladies, though it is probable there were others. [6]
- Hitherto I have only had to fight against men; but this bold, hard, and scornful maiden, who rejects every gentle feeling, is no despicable foe. [10]
- Xanthe was thinking of Phaon as she sat beside the spring, but her brow wore such a defiant frown that she did not bear the most distant resemblance to a maiden giving herself up to tender emotions. [10]
- If any, born of kindlier blood, Should ask, What maiden lies below? [6]
- Determined to let nothing damp his spirits, Caesar merely shrugged his shoulders, and gave orders to admit the maiden, and--should they have accompanied her--her father and brother. [10]
- But he did not volunteer to be one of those to man the Petrel on her maiden voyage. [9]
- But my father, not to speak of my madcap brother Alexander, do not know what befits a maiden, nor does anybody expect it of them. [10]
- He remembered the noble Macedonian maiden whom the Queen had begun to favour, and who was hunted to death by Iras's hostile intrigues. [10]
- A pure and noble Jacobite maiden, of her own free and beautiful impulse, has sacrificed herself after the example of the Saviour, for the sufferings of her nation, before your eyes. [10]
- And it was no trivial matter for the high-souled maiden to devote herself, with sweet self-sacrifice, to those whose roughness and uncouth manners wounded her. [10]
- The maiden princess next to her had hardly reached her nineteenth year, and yet something of a womanly self-consciousness betrayed itself in her demeanor. [10]
- The key of my room at a certain great hotel was missing, and this Teutonic maiden was summoned to give information respecting it. [6]
- He also approved my parallel between a certain German blonde young maiden whom we passed in the street and the "Morris White" peach. [6]
- I'm here under my maiden name, Ma'm'selle Luzanne Larue. [11]
- I rejoice in my gladsome little maiden who will enjoy life with me, and all its pleasures! [10]
- Llyn was her mother's maiden name. [11]
- Her father and mother had died when she was ten years old, and she had been reared by a maiden aunt, with whom she still lived. [4]
- And one word more: When a man has grown gray, it is doubly soothing to his heart that a lovely maiden should so frankly regret the parting. [10]
- I hesitated a moment, and then addressed her: "Is the heart of the forest maiden heavy? [5]
- Tradition says that many springs ago, while upon this island, a young warrior loved and wooed the daughter of his chief, and it is said, also, the maiden loved the warrior. [5]
- Whoever possessed this maiden would be sure to have no lack of light in his home, no matter how dark the night might be. [10]
- As for the maiden whom this man calls the older beautiful E, never--I swear it by our saint--have I sought her love or received from her the smallest token of her favour. [10]
- She was a maiden who might have been as good as need be for all life, so far as appearances went. [11]
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