Example Sentences

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Brides have to behave like this; they consider it modest and maiden-like to appear to take no interest or pleasure in their wedding ceremonies.

From Diversions in Sicily by Jones, Henry Festing

There was, however, still enough dissonance in his manner to affect her quick feminine sense, and when she drew nearer to him it was with a certain maiden-like timidity.

From Snow-Bound at Eagle's by Harte, Bret

Not a cloud overshadowed her white brow as she now sat down on the couch, and with a sweet smile on her maiden-like countenance raised the waking child, and proceeded to give it nourishment.

From Felicitas A Tale of the German Migrations: A.D. 476 by Dahn, Felix

I had studied the lore in her maiden-like ways, And the large-hearted love of my Annie was won, 'Ere Summer had passed into passionate days, Or Autumn made ready her fruits for the Sun.

From The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Kendall, Henry

With maiden-like decision of perception she went through the wilderness wherein she had to bend aside, now flowers, now thorns, in order to be neither embarrassed nor injured.

From Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) by Jean Paul