Certes, it was not my brother who won thy maidhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nibelungenlied] Reference

By which the property of youth and maidhood May be abus'd?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The plays of William Shakespeare. In fifteen volumes. With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators] Reference

So much for resorting to marriage for deliverance from poverty or old maidhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete] Reference

I am a woman, and as I do not think that I shall ever marry, I refuse to be chaperoned all the way to old-maidhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taquisara] Reference

No, I am talking of the girl you loved who was not only really grown up and too old for you, but grown up almost into old-maidhood, and too old perhaps for anyone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jersey Street and Jersey Lane Urban and Suburban Sketches] Reference

Cesario, by the roses of the spring, by maidhood, honour, and by truth, I love you so, that, in spite of your pride, I have neither wit nor reason to conceal my passion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twelfth Night; or, What you Will] Reference

Cesario, by the roses of the spring, by maidhood, honour, and by truth, I love you so, that, in spite of your pride, I have neither wit nor reason to conceal my passion. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales from Shakespeare] Reference

All through the kaleidoscopic transformation-scenes of the "season", through which she moved magnificently, old-maidhood notwithstanding, she was unconsciously seeking him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sisters] Reference

But they were mostly letters from cranks ... or from girls very, very young and sentimental, or on the verge of old-maidhood, who were casting about for some escape from the narrow daily life that environed them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative] Reference

Cesario, by the roses of the spring, by maidhood, honour, and by truth, I love you so, that, in spite of your pride, I have neither wit nor reason to conceal my passion. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales from Shakespeare] Reference

By which the property of youth and maidhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Othello] Reference

By maidhood, honour, truth, and everything.    From Wordnik.com.  [The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare] Reference

By maidhood, honour, truth and every thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twelfth Night; or What You Will] Reference

I'm doomed to old-maidhood, "she said, laughing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Teddy: Her Book A Story of Sweet Sixteen] Reference

By maidhood, honour, truth, and every thing, 116.    From Wordnik.com.  [Act III. Scene I. Twelfth-Night; or, What You Will] Reference

That he was really in love with her, so far as it was possible for such an oyster to be in love, was no doubt true; and for a young lady without connections or money, dependent on her own efforts, with no charms or accomplishments beyond those possessed by a thousand other competitors, and beginning, also, to verge to the age when the sinking into old maidhood comes to be considered as a possible, however awful contingency, -- for such a young lady to be fallen in love with, even though it be by an oyster in the similitude of a man, is a thing not to be despised; and the said human oyster having the reputation of being rich, and able to support her in idleness and luxury, what proportion of girls of the age and in the position of Miss Devens, whether in New England or Old, or elsewhere, would refuse to accept him for a husband?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Slave; or, Memoirs of a Fugitive] Reference

That he was really in love with her, so far as it was possible for such an oyster to be in love, was no doubt true; and for a young lady without connections or money, dependent on her own efforts, with no charms or accomplishments beyond those possessed by a thousand other competitors, and beginning, also, to verge to the age when the sinking into old maidhood comes to be considered as a possible, however awful contingency, ” for such a young lady to be fallen in love with, even though it be by an oyster in the similitude of a man, is a thing not to be despised; and the said human oyster having the reputation of being rich, and able to support her in idleness and luxury, what proportion of girls of the age and in the position of Miss Devens, whether in New England or Old, or elsewhere, would refuse to accept him for a husband?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Slave or Memoirs of a Fugitive]