Then, perhaps feeling that she may have offended me, she quickly added: "Not of course that I doubt that there are maidenlike ladies in America.". From Wordnik.com. [Walking-Stick Papers] Reference
His eyes rested on the pure outline of her maidenlike face, and he was silent for a moment. From Wordnik.com. [Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 (of 2)] Reference
The simple and maidenlike heart of a youth long preserves gratitude for the first sweets of love!. From Wordnik.com. [Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812] Reference
That maidenlike friend of yours has taken possession of my bed, after your mother's routing me up as if I had been a stoat or a dormouse. From Wordnik.com. [The Buccaneer A Tale] Reference
Ever and anon there gleamed across the young man's mind a sense of wonder that he should be walking side by side with the being who had so wrought upon his imagination, whom he had idealized in such hues of terror, in whom he had positively witnessed such manifestations of dreadful attributes, -- that he should be conversing with Beatrice like a brother, and should find her so human and so maidenlike. From Wordnik.com. [Mosses from an Old Manse and other stories] Reference
Ever and anon there gleamed across the young mans mind a sense of wonder that he should be walking side by side with the being who had so wrought upon his imagination, whom he had idealized in such hues of terror, in whom he had positively witnessed such manifestations of dreadful attributes, that he should be conversing with Beatrice like a brother, and should find her so human and so maidenlike. From Wordnik.com. [Rappaccinis Daughter] Reference
Now while I sang, and maidenlike as far. From Wordnik.com. [The Princess] Reference
She was the same always, simple, honest, strangely maidenlike, thoroughly good. From Wordnik.com. [Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 (of 2)] Reference
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