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The white, maidenish and silk-haired fairness of Sidwell, and Peak's irresistible passion for the type of beauty suggested, is revealed to us with all Gissing's wonderful skill in shadowing forth feminine types of lovelihood.

From The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories by Gissing, George

I thought thou hadst been a lad of higher mettle than to give way to a parcel of maidenish tricks.——I tell thee 'tis all flimflam.

From History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry

Dr. James's preface to this book, which will be noticed in its proper place, in another work, is the veriest piece of old maidenish particularity that ever was exhibited!

From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall

"Come, come," says Western, "none of your maidenish airs; I know all; I assure you sister hath told me all."

From History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry

I imagined It was a chaste, a maidenish reflection, That made my Nanna blush at our affection: Unmurmuring I obeyed, and kept in secret.

From The Death of Balder by Borrow, George Henry