When, his only son having drunk himself to death, the last of three daughters who had reached elderly and acidulated maidenhood indicated a wish to marry a man she confesses she did not love, he objected.
Her husband was Sychaeus, wealthiest in lands of the Phoenicians, and loved of her with ill-fated passion; to whom with virgin rites her father had given her maidenhood in wedlock.
Neither could Anna Andreevna, nor the two girls who stood clasping each other in the corner, refrain from shedding tears, the girls for their youth and the sparkling joys of their maidenhood of which they had been deprived.
Why should he be expected to differ from his contemporaries in this matter, and wish his niece a worse end of her charming maidenhood than they would approve as the best possible?
With all her imaginative delight in being adored, there was a certain fierceness of maidenhood in her.
And she prayed they would do her justice, those knights of the Table Round, Since in sooth she had lost a treasure which might never again be found, 390 Her maidenhood fair and unstainèd!
Cream Cheese to omit his sermon upon the maidenhood of Lot's wife, and preach from this text: 'They that sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind.
Mr. Cheese is going to read me a sermon he has written upon the maidenhood of Lot's wife.
She was the wife of an hotel-keeper, the more vulgar for certain affectations of refinement acquired during bar-maidenhood in London, and her intimacy with the Cartwrights was now of long standing.
It was a sensation of shame which came upon her, a tremor of maidenhood in re-living, swift instant by instant, all that had just passed.
His wife was in her maidenhood Miss Gould and by their marriage they became the parents of twelve children.
Adélard Ouimet was Landré Ouimet, and his wife was in her maidenhood Miss Euphémie Bourqué.
Not at all; merely the close of Olga Neville's career; the sun of my maidenhood setting in unexpected splendour.
We had no time for unsuitable reading, and none of the cares or dissipations of maidenhoodperplexed our straight forward way.
Seventeen has come; its dignity and seriousness have followed upon the frolics of untutored youth; and the sweet charm of maidenhood has smoothed down such angularities as were formerly permissible.
She displayed an obtrusive girlhood that was not always as modest as its intention, and this pose of maidenhood in bud was apparently the one designed to net me.
All things are not to be at once expected of a single small flake of maidenhood and snow.
Amor had either to be a Lovelace or a Joseph at a time when young maidenhood fainted before an ardent glance.
No, no, the thought of so much comely maidenhood languishing for your velvet-sleeved caresses is merely droll.
What maid is maid like her Who, free to choose, has vowed a maidenhood Secure 'gainst chance or choice?
It is no earthly love that follows, but the declaration of the queen that in her continued maidenhood justice to her people shall be her only spouse.
Stella he had known and taught in her youngmaidenhood at Sir William Temple's.
Make not thou Out of her shamefast maidenhoodand fear A sword to cleave your happiness in twain.
No wrong it may be with the serfs of hell To cast upon a woman for a curse Shame: to defile the spirit and shrine of love, Put out the sunlike eyes of maidenhood And leave the soul dismantled.
None of the editions of the Parzival give a direct reference to the source of the curious 'riddling' passage which follows, but the theory of the maidenhood of the earth was a favourite one with Mediæval writers.
And two sons sprang forth from her body, and the elder he wrought amiss, Since envy so worked upon him that from wrath there sprang disgrace, And of maidenhood did he rob her who was mother of all his race!
For who should have borne the father, whose son, as thou sayest, reft 545 Maidenhoodfrom his father's mother?
In such sore strait do I find me, I am ready myself to kill Ere my maidenhood and this body I yield to Klamidé's will.
The place of this classic meeting was probably on the west coast of Corfu, that incomparable island, to whose beauty the legend of the exquisite maidenhood of the daughter of the king of the Phaeacians has added an immortal bloom.
Whilst yet in her maidenhood she longed for distinction.
