And she was far less settled into old-maidish ways.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]

This itself would seem to be a somewhat old-maidish evasion.    From Wordnik.com.  [MOTIF] Reference

Being a spinster, you're little old-maidish, but that's no harm.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Month in the Country] Reference

A freedom, both from girlish frivolities, and old-maidish crabbedness and prudery.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

You can be quite old-maidish at times, but really you would be most miserable with Mr. Faford.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Unacceptable Offer]

That the good Lord who looks after the fathers of willful, old-maidish daughters will see to that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Green Valley] Reference

Since her engagement, Tims's old-maidish bringing up seemed to be bearing fruit for the first time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Invader A Novel] Reference

"I should think so," he said in a shocked old-maidish voice that made her laugh in spite of herself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Drawing of the Three]

And this was the prim old-maidish governess they had been expecting! this fresh, blooming, lovely looking girl!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lewie Or, The Bended Twig] Reference

He is a little old-maidish about his age, which for the last twenty years has not got a day more than fifty-four.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference

The other two, however, one a mere lad, the other an old-maidish man of 50, complained bitterly of the food and other things.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship] Reference

And if Karal had not known him, it would be very tempting to dismiss his interest as that of an interfering, old-maidish busybody.    From Wordnik.com.  [Storm Breaking]

Throwing politeness to the winds, he twitted Sara with her finical affectations, her old-maidish ways, the morning sloth that expected.    From Wordnik.com.  [Australia Felix] Reference

The large and pleasant bed-sitting-room, a trifle old-maidish in its little deceptions and reticences, was in a state of wild disorder.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Work for the Undertaker]

Kensington, she became again what I call old-maidish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bird of Paradise] Reference

Mrs. Furber looked quickly into the kind, old-maidish face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Minnehaha] Reference

He's an old-maidish sort of fellow, and is easily frightened.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Colossus A Novel] Reference

How utterly different it was from their old-maidish expectations!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales] Reference

Michael laughed suddenly as he recalled the mild old-maidish face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prisoners Fast Bound In Misery And Iron] Reference

Laughing at her old-maidish precautions, they let her have her way.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Huntress] Reference

We know the fate of Goethe in old-maidish moralin-corroded Germany.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms.] Reference

His appearance is effeminate, his manner finicky and old-maidish to a degree.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe]

They soon settled in the old-maidish way of partridges, and began to call upon each other.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Island Pharisees] Reference

I should not like to be called an old maid, but I confess to an old-maidish care for cleanliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Quest of the Simple Life]

Spiteful people said, that Lily was beginning to look old-maidish, but I never saw it in her calm face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 453 Volume 18, New Series, September 4, 1852] Reference

But Frieda was looking the other way, and Margaret travelled on to town feeling solitary and old-maidish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Howards End] Reference

"Fat him up and slaughter him," Mr. Scogan pronounced, with a delicate old-maidish precision of utterance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crome Yellow] Reference

A gentle, old-maidish person and a sweet young girl of seventeen sat right in front of us that night at the.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tramp Abroad — Volume 02] Reference

I would call it disgusting, but Bill Kristol took all the flavor out of "disgusting" for me, made it old-maidish.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Latest From VanityFair.com] Reference

On other matters he was more compliant -- humoring her old-maidish fancies in a most docile and conciliating manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book About Lawyers] Reference

Its white paint, shining brass, Morris chintz and good furniture were tasteful, old-maidish, and intensely ordinary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a Ghost]

But even at thirty-five -- she had now reached that age, nay, passed it -- she was not what you would call "old-maidish.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Laurel Bush] Reference

Ruskin, the pure lover of things noble and beautiful, but shadowed by a prim perversity, an old-maidish delicacy, a petulant despair.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Altar Fire] Reference

I put my wife's peace of mind higher than your old-maidish alarms. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Native Born or, the Rajah's People] Reference

As it is, I've had Clarice's and now ---- "She broke off with a quick, old-maidish colour.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lovely Lady] Reference