Adjective : a maidenly blush.    From Dictionary.com. 

She had a revulsion against the whole affair, and almost envied the Guthrie girls their gawky inexperience and crude maidenliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Chatterley's Lover] Reference

Was it maidenliness in the waning woman of five-and-forty?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Falconer] Reference

For there is a maidenliness in sorrow, that wraps her garments close around her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adela Cathcart, Volume 3] Reference

For there is a maidenliness in sorrow, that wraps her garments close around her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Portent & Other Stories] Reference

A great change must come over her before her reserved maidenliness could soften to such sweet humility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thyrza] Reference

She sat up straight, by force of her instinctive maidenliness, but she kissed him back when he kissed her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Copy-Cat, & Other Stories] Reference

Sir Ralf observed that the young lady showed a comely shamefast maidenliness, and therewith bowed himself out of the room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland] Reference

Her modern realism played with the thought quite freely; her maidenliness, proud and pure as it was, being nowise ashamed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marcella] Reference

In good sooth, a young maid is all the better for learning some robuster virtues than maidenliness and not to move the antimacassars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jackanapes, Daddy Darwin's Dovecot and Other Stories] Reference

Far corrupted the boy was already, but he really believed in that farrago of maidenliness and muslin, in sweet looks as much studied as an Act of Parliament.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jealousies of a Country Town] Reference

Constance had been there all the time, but of course, though she heard the remembered voice, her maidenliness had not permitted that she should show herself to Mr. Scales.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Wives' Tale] Reference

It was that she should have seen something which she should not have seen, for her innocence's sake -- something which, in a sense, must have offended and wounded her maidenliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adam Johnstone's Son] Reference

Perhaps it occurred to Lady Theobald that the contrast of English reserve and maidenliness with the free-and-easy manners of young women from Nevada might lead to some good result.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fair Barbarian] Reference

She retreated as young ladies should ever do, two or three steps, and he would not notice that she had become an angry Dian, all arrows: her maidenliness in surrendering pleased him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference

"I thought it might be fine to help a great painter like you," confessed the gentle lass; very gently, with reluctance and pain, for it was wrung by compulsion from her maidenliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes] Reference

There was something which might have touched the springs both of mirth and of melancholy in the ancient maidenliness with which Mrs. Bread endeavored to comply with these directions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American] Reference

In good sooth, a young maid is all the better for learning some robuster virtues than maidenliness and not to move the antimacassars; and the robuster virtues require some fresh air and freedom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes] Reference

There was in the appearance of this little sanctuary, hung with white silken drapery, and as elegant as the divinity whose favourite tarrying-place it was, something of purity, chastity, and maidenliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Samuel Brohl and Company] Reference

Then the stars will pale before a glory more intense, the countless little leaves, like delicate human emotions, will wake and stir, and the white mists of maidenliness will be warmed with heavenly radiance.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Algonquin Maiden A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada] Reference

At that moment she seemed to throw out protecting antennæ of maidenliness; and, besides, there was always the memory of the cut in wages, for which she still judged him; and then there was the long neglect.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Portion of Labor] Reference

Beautiful with the truest sort of beauty, for nobility of character lent its subtle charm to the bloom of youth, the freshness of health, the innocence of a nature whose sweet maidenliness Mac felt but could not describe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rose in Bloom] Reference

She observed that my eyes were upon her, and in an act of instinctive maidenliness she bore her hand to her throat to draw the draperies together and screen the beauties of her neck from my unwarranted glance, as though her daily gown did not reveal as much and more of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys...] Reference

For forty years he had kept all the women of his acquaintance speculating as to his plans; marriageable women especially -- perhaps fifty of them -- had been able in all maidenliness to indicate to him that they might easily be persuaded to share the Pomeroy name and fortune.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of Rachael] Reference

And Alda marched off, while Wilmet's strong tender arms helped Cherry into her own room, and tended her through one of those gusts, part repentant, part hysterical, which had belonged to her earlier girlhood, though the present was now enhanced by the tumult of insulted maidenliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pillars of the House, V1] Reference

It took a great moral effort to galvanise his trust -- erewhile so perfect -- in Margaret's pure and exquisite maidenliness, into life; as soon as the effort ceased, his trust dropped down dead and powerless: and all sorts of wild fancies chased each other like dreams through his mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [North and South] Reference

Maidens are commonly reduced to read the masters of their destinies by their instincts; and when these have been edged by over-activity they must hoodwink their maidenliness to suffer themselves to read; and then they must dupe their minds, else men would soon see they were gifted to discern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference

Yes! but at the root of all, the most dazzling, the most convincing maidenliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume II] Reference

A sweet pea -- people to whom there is an ineffable charm in simple maidenliness and sweetness.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Houseful of Girls] Reference

But her maidenliness held back.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes] Reference

That fair childish maidenliness had ceased.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference