Her stepfather bluntly told her that she will end her maidenhood as she is to be married to the rich, old merchant. From LearnThat.org.
And all her maidenhood was his to slay. From Wordnik.com. [Ballad of Reading Gaol] Reference
Now the exquisite shyness of maidenhood enveloped her. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
And in her maidenhood she had a son by Parasara, named. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference
Suta was born of Kunti in her maidenhood through Surya. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference
Whilst yet in her maidenhood she longed for distinction. From Wordnik.com. [Alvira, the Heroine of Vesuvius] Reference
Here she grew into maidenhood, and each day became more fair. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Myths] Reference
And the Suta was born of Kunti in her maidenhood through Surya. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference
Or for a mediocre marriage, instead of mediocre old maidenhood. From Wordnik.com. [Question Quest]
It is not love you feel, but the changing fancies of maidenhood. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
"A long, long maidenhood to thee thy prophet tongue hath given --". From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference
And in her maidenhood she had a son by Parasara, named Dwaipayana. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference
The loveliest flower of maidenhood in his parish had been cut down. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
Me love lies stunned within the wood, sleeping away she maidenhood. From Wordnik.com. [The Source of Magic]
Stella he had known and taught in her young maidenhood at Sir William. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference
THOMPKINS: The throwing of the rahat symbolizes the end of maidenhood. From Wordnik.com. [One Sudan Marriage Ritual: An Alluring Dance] Reference
"The gods judge me rather for this sweeter use of maidenhood," he said. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
Her maidenhood was but just begun and she had much yet to learn of life. From Wordnik.com. [Marcia Schuyler] Reference
And the child of Parasara so born of me in my maidenhood hath become a great. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference
Tireless, he sang to her of a world fairer even than that of her maidenhood. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920] Reference
Janet plunged her head in her lap and was the picture of outraged maidenhood. From Wordnik.com. [Janet of the Dunes] Reference
On account of my maidenhood, this outrage of thine is fraught with woe to me!. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference
You knew her not a guileless, artless girl just blooming into early maidenhood. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Peneus among men of old time; for dear to her were maidenhood and a couch unstained. From Wordnik.com. [The Argonautica] Reference
The child had the pure, clear cut features of the cameo type of New England maidenhood. From Wordnik.com. [Turn About Eleanor] Reference
She was represented as the bride of Zeus, who annually renewed her maidenhood at the great. From Wordnik.com. [Religion and Art in Ancient Greece] Reference
And not just his wife but, perhaps (not to be revealed here) his wife's maidenhood as well. From Wordnik.com. [Kim Morgan: Black Malden Moan: 'Baby Doll'] Reference
To them she was merely the conventional nonenity of maidenhood that Japanese etiquette demanded. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Painter] Reference
Let him woo some Achaean girl far away among his own folk; let maidenhood be mine and the home of my parents. From Wordnik.com. [The Argonautica] Reference
Before the marriage a kid is sacrificed at the bride's house to celebrate the removal of her status of maidenhood. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
Girls are to grow wiser, and to avoid what must bring harm, but still to keep the attractive freshness of maidenhood. From Wordnik.com. [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference
Is this his repayment for my maidenhood? what good is his gift of life for ever? why have I forfeited a mortal's lot?. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
We had no time for unsuitable reading, and none of the cares or dissipations of maidenhood perplexed our straight forward way. From Wordnik.com. [The Education of American Girls] Reference
If her father had been the dominant figure of her maidenhood, George de Cuevas was the controlling force of her adult existence. From Wordnik.com. [The Rockefeller and the Ballet Boys] Reference
The reader must know those interesting children bursting like fragrant flowers into the bloom of their maidenhood; they are the sisters of. From Wordnik.com. [Alvira, the Heroine of Vesuvius] Reference
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