You have heard, Shabaka and Bes," said Tanofir quietly and stroking his long white beard, "and what that maiden seemed to read in the water you may believe or disbelieve as you will.
Hush now, the maidenis about to awake and must not be frightened.
When I asked him where he had gone, he would answer, to drink in the wisdom of the holy Tanofir by help of a certain silver vessel that the maiden Karema held to his lips.
The teacher who heartlessly expelled from the temple of learning the unoffending and guileless companion of the innocent maiden who is the heroine of the above-mentioned ditty, was, in spite of his cruelty, a philosopher.
Isidora looked the very image of despair; and I felt any thing but martial satisfaction at the immediate certainty of having an early opportunity afforded of "fleshing my maiden sword.
I went down to the post-office for the evening mail, and was coming home by moonlight, unattended, as any undesirable maiden aunt may safely do, when the boy overtook me.
Maiden aunthood is an unhappy estate, and grows worse with habit.
He told her the story of the unfortunate maiden chained to a rock and waiting for a sea-beast that was coming to devour her, and how Perseus came and set her free, and won her love with her life.
The key of my room at a certain great hotel was missing, and this Teutonic maiden was summoned to give information respecting it.
The pressure of her hand was never too hard for the tenderest little maiden whose palm was against her own.
She stopped short, and surveyed the not uncomely person of the maiden lady sitting before her with her handkerchief pressed to her eyes, and one hand clenching the arm of the reeking-chair, as if some spasm had clamped it there.
Gifted Hopkins wrote some beautiful verses one day on "A Maiden Weeping.
He entered with the long train under a low arch, and presently he was kneeling in a narrow cell before an image of the Blessed Maiden holding the Divine Child in her arms, and his lips seemed to whisper, Sancta Maria, ora pro nobis!
Do not judge too hastily this sincere effort of a maiden muse.
Our young Doctor is evidently attracted by the charming maiden who serves him and us so modestly and so gracefully.
If any, born of kindlier blood, Should ask, What maiden lies below?
But not beneath a graven stone, To plead for tears with alien eyes; A slender cross of wood alone Shall say, that here a maiden lies In peace beneath the peaceful skies.
Shall Greece, still as lovely as maiden in sorrow, By Freedom's bright ray ne'er be beam'd on again?
In nearly every office in Maiden Lane where gems and valuable jewelry are stored," explained McLear, "this electrical system of ours is installed.
Still, I was not prepared for the host of Maiden Lane cases that followed.
Half a billion dollars in jewels in Maiden Lane and John Street are easy prey for the cracksmen!
I took the necklace to a jeweler, Herman Schloss, of Maiden Lane, a man with whom my husband had often had dealings and whom I thought I could trust.
On the door of the office to which McLear took us was one of those small blue plates which chance visitors to Maiden Lane must have seen often.
I suppose there is no need of concealment, especially as I hear that a somewhat similar attempt was made on the safe of my friend Herman Schloss in Maiden Lane.
The twomaiden ladies, rather flushed and agitated, faced each other nervously.
In spring, at dawn, a maiden filled her cup at it.
At noon, in summer, the same maiden and a youth drank from it with cheeks close together.
Not forgetting the giant, he thought it worth while to take a 'real English gun' with him, though doubtless the maiden was a wife long since, and her husband might ask for a more useful present.
Day after day in that case the invitation is repeated, and the maiden takes two steps, then three, until at length she quits the procession entirely and surrenders.
Then he awaits the train of women returning, steps gently among them, and takes the maiden of his fancy by the hand.
The man is old and feeble," she said to Cedric, "the maiden young and beautiful, their friend sick and in peril of his life.
Softly the youth and the maiden repeated the words of betrothal, Taking each other for husband and wife in the Magistrate's presence, After the Puritan way, and the laudable custom of Holland.
My word is passed to my comrade in arms that he shall have the maiden as his share of the spoil, and I would not break it for ten Jews and Jewesses to boot.
Go to the damsel Priscilla, the loveliest maiden of Plymouth; Say that a blunt old captain, a man not of words but of actions, Offers his hand and his heart, the hand and heart of a soldier.
A maiden steeple, a hurdle race and a hunters' flat race filling up the programme.
I had already ridden old Buckland in the Maiden Steeple and Hunt Club Cups some six miles, without being near winning, so I thought I would oblige Morris.
The lady young, which did lament This cruel cursed strife, For very grief dyed that day, 155 A maiden and a wife.
Take ye no dread, my lady gay, 115 Lat a your folly be; If ye com a maiden to green wood, You'll return the same for me.
If she had not given her consent, She had not gone wi me; 185 If she came a maiden to green wood, She return'd again for me.
Farewell, my lovely maiden fair, A long adieu to thee; Your father's sworn a solemn swear 170 That hanged I shall be.
I'm sure you was once the fairest maiden That ever the sun shined on.
It chanced so upon a day, 5 As he was walking on his way, He saw a maiden fresh and gay In Timnath.
Then he pictured the terrace overlooking the vineyards--a grey old stone terrace, with many seats and sheltering trees, and along that terrace walked just such a maiden as Aunt Marguerite had described.
But a still more wonderful relic of former days is to be seen two miles south of Dorchester--the huge British earthwork, now known as Maiden Castle.
It was thus that Lucilla consoled herself as she went meditative but undaunted to her maiden rest.
It was so complete and perfect that there was not another word to be said either on one side or the other; and yet Lucilla had not in the least committed herself, or condescended from her maiden dignity.
Lucilla's maiden household had been on the whole getting along very comfortably, and there was no telling how long it might have lasted without any new revolution.
When he said this the Doctor gave a sharp glance at his daughter, to see if by chance that might perhaps be what she was thinking of; but naturally the maiden candour and unsuspecting innocence of Lucilla was proof to such glances.
When an army has the aid of a sacred maiden to bring inspiration to its counsels, the idea of going on in the old formal way is no longer to be tolerated.
But though Lucilla was satisfied with the events of the evening, it would be vain to deny that there were perturbations in her mind as she laid her head upon her maiden pillow.
This naturally made the maiden indignant, for she was justified in assuming that no business could be more important than that of asking for her hand.
Another passenger on the Mayflower was Priscilla Mullins, daughter of William Mullins, a maiden of unusual beauty, just blooming into womanhood.
The maiden was called into the room, and a brighter light dawned in her eyes, and a ruddier flush suffused her cheeks, as her gaze met that of the handsome young cooper.
If a maiden is seduced by one of the caste she may be married to him as if she were a widow, a fine being imposed on her family; but if she goes wrong with an outsider she is finally expelled.
A liaison between a youth and maiden of the caste is considered a trifling matter, being punished only with a fine of two to four annas or pence.
His maiden speech was delivered in April 1736, in the debate on the congratulatory address to the king on the marriage of the prince of Wales.
At an undetermined stage and to an undetermined degree the maiden herself is consulted; certainly she holds the power of veto, ostensible if not actual.
Dear maiden of the sunny head And cheeks of coral hue, The lips of rarest ruby red, The eyes of Oxford blue, And other charms I've left unsaid .
Thence rose at half-past four to make his maiden speech, a deliverance effected under rarely momentous circumstances.
He saw in this maiden of the admirable physique, and the transparent well-coloured eyes, all that was responsive to his enthusiastic and imaginative nature.
As to how the case may appear from the daughter's point of view, you have no right to say, or even to think, as you have never put it in her power to tell you, and a maiden may not divulge the secret of her preferences unasked.
An innocent and maiden grace still hovered over Miss Baillie to the end of her old age.
Ames refers to "the true and admirable history of the maiden of Confolens," mentioned by Haller.
Collins describes a maiden lady of eighty, always a moderate eater, who was attacked by bronchitis, during which she took food as usual.
No Roman maiden was able to preserve her virginity during participation in the celebrations in the Temples of Venus, the debauches of Venus and Mars, etc.
This unfortunate maiden had been delivered while standing upright, with her elbows on the back of a chair.
He also speaks of the origin of the maiden Hippona, or as he calls her, Hippo, as being from the connection of a man with a mare.
Goodwin relates the case of an old maiden lady whose complexion up to the age of twenty-one was of ordinary whiteness, but then became as black as that of an African.
Although this device provided against the coitus, the maiden was not free from the assaults of the Lesbians.
