Example Sentences

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Certainly her first thought was for the Countess; and, for the rest, she felt herself cleared from the reproach of unmaidenliness by the danger of the step which she was taking.

From The Abbess Of Vlaye by Weyman, Stanley J.

He guessed that she loved him and he pitied her; but he could not forgive her unmaidenliness, he could not love her.

From The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest by Liljencrantz, Ottilie A. (Ottilia Adelina)

Wogan had seen too closely into her heart to bring any foolish charge of unmaidenliness against her.

From Clementina by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

She thought this, blushing as if it were unmaidenliness, when it was only nature speaking in her heart.

From Olive A Novel by Bowers, G.