And long shall the maidens remember her love, And heroes shall dwell on his story; She died in her constancy like the lone dove, But he like an eagle in glory.
She it was that informed me that Padre Cipriano had set the faces of the maidens against me, and for this I determined to be revenged.
He prejudiced the minds of the maidens against me, and made an attempt to injure my reputation among the young men and elders--in vain.
And some say he was the last as well, for in despair, thinking their music had lost its power, the maidens threw themselves into the sea.
The incident of the maidens who bathe, and whose clothes the hero steals, is clearly an example of the Swan-maiden myth, and occurs in a few other Italian tales.
Peppino is wrecked on a rock in the sea; the rock opens, fair maidens come out and conduct Peppino to a beautiful castle in the cave.
The fairy and all her twelvemaidens will appear at the window.
But his wife must be more beautiful than the sun, and no matter how many maidens he saw, none was beautiful enough to suit him.
Maidens understand not the pledging of credit," saith Ned.
But for English maidens dwelling by Lake Derwentwater, I count paper and pens shall be wanted--and ink too, belike.
Those fairy gifts, people said, were given to the maidens by the Wine God, Dionysus, and by the Goddess of Corn, Demeter.
Men say that forth from the sea came Thetis of the silver feet, the mother of Achilles, with her ladies, the deathless maidens of the waters.
When Helen heard that her husband was to fight Paris, she wept, and threw a shining veil over her head, and with her two bower maidens went to the roof of the gate tower, where king Priam was sitting with the old Trojan chiefs.
Penthesilea was the tallest and most beautiful of the Amazons, and shone among her twelvemaidens like the moon among the stars, or the bright Dawn among the Hours which follow her chariot wheels.
There he was reared by the lily maidens called Hesperides, till he came to his full strength, and commanded the whole army of the Aethiopes.
She had been in an inner room of her house, weaving a purple web, and embroidering flowers on it, and she was calling her bowermaidens to make ready a bath for Hector when he should come back tired from battle.
Surely I heard the cry of my husband's mother," she said, and she bade two of her maidens come with her to see why the people lamented.
Beside her charged the twelve maidens of her bodyguard, and all the company of Hector's brothers and kinsfolk.
Lo, she that comes from the sea is his mother, with the deathless maidens of the waters, to look on the face of her dead son.
Ulysses therefore went to Agamemnon one day, and asked leave to take his ship and voyage to Delos, to bring, if he could, the three maidens to the camp, if indeed they could do these miracles.
She, beholding her maidens fallen, rode straight against Aias and Achilles, like a dove defying two falcons, and cast her spear, but it fell back blunted from the glorious shield that the God had made for the son of Peleus.
Ah, you have no remembrance of love for the charming maidens that danced beneath the outspread tents beside the bright fragrant flowers?
When convinced of its absurdity, these desirable maidensput aside their big folios and became the properly humble, adoring, and ignorant wives of the heroes whose sound good sense had shown them their folly.
And when they hear the nightingale And see the blossomed hawthorn tree, What time the orchard pink grows pale-- The river maidens beckon me.
Often the old and the young maidens sat in the twilight discussing the probabilities of poor Alfred Compton's life and death, and every discussion left them more and more positive that he had been the victim of some cruel plot.
Nay, but children walk where strong men fall down, and young maidens enter the kingdom while yet their parents are stumbling where no light from the Golden City and "the Land very far off" reaches them.
Smith thought to be part of the third column of this text refers to some misfortune that came upon the city when the people moaned like calves, and the maidens grieved like doves.
To all appearance there was none in all his realm like him, and also no consort suitable for him, though he collected to him all the young men and maidens in the land.
You University maidens quite take the shine out of us poor old teachers.
The folk here think a wreck on these Maidens absolutely fatal, so we cannot be but most thankful for being alive, though it is a worse experience than the Rotuma earthquake.
The two girls rushed into the charms of these two Sisters, and the plan for an entertainment for the maidens of the Guild of St. Milburgha, at which they were to assist.
But there were no kind maidens to lend them their hands to help them down.
Would you believe it--It is seriously held by many, that she partakes of the race of spirits of the elements, which makes her so much more bashful than maidens of this every-day world.
By the same token, both menials and maidens placed themselves at the disposal of the victors; but I promise you that my father was right severe on any who would abuse the rights of war.
Two other maidens are watching the artist with unfeigned interest.
When the maidens had passed with the water, Cambyses caused the son of Psammenitus to be led past with two thousand Egyptians of the same age, with ropes round their necks and in their mouths.
In the bare old Dutch Reformed Church, Adriana was an object of interest to the maidens worshipping there; almost as much so as if she were going to be married.
Sixteen maidens walking about waiting for their arms to dry before re-donning their blouses made a rather comical sight.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "maidens" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
