Example Sentences

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A quiet, maiden-like place was Mary's little room.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 by Various

O how can I look maiden-like, When maiden I'll ne'er be;10 When seven brave sons I've born to thee, And the eighth is in my bodie?

From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various

Thus, a slender woman, still looking maiden-like, she supported his tall, broad-chested frame along the pathway of their little garden, and plucked the roses for her gray-haired husband, and spoke soothingly, as to an infant.

From Edward Fane's Rosebud (From "Twice Told Tales") by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

"Bind up, bind up your yellow hair,5 And tye it in your neck; And see you look as maiden-like As the day that we first met."

From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various

Various aetiological explanations of the name Parthenius were given by the ancients, e.g. that the maiden Artemis hunted on its banks, or that the flow of its waters was gentle and maiden-like.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various