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Example sentences for "young maid"

  • To think of the prisoner her heart was sore, A young maid's love is easily won Her love it was much, but her pity was more, And she, etc.

  • If ye could love me, as I do love thee, A young maid's love is hard to win I'll make you a lady of high degree, When once we go down to fair Scotland.

  • A bailiff's fair daughter, she lived by the Aln, A young maid's love is easily won She heard a poor prisoner making his moan, And she was the flower of Northumberland.

  • Marcus the heretic is accused by Irenaeus, to have inveigled a young maid by this means; and some writers speak hardly of the Lady Katharine Cobham, that by the same art she circumvented Humphrey Duke of Gloucester to be her husband.

  • But no sooner did they reach the covered passage than she discerned a young maid, attached to her quarters, standing under it.

  • Pao-yĆ¼ handed the glass lantern to a young maid to carry, and, supporting himself on her shoulder, he straightway wended his steps on his way back.

  • While they conversed they were on the point of starting on their way back, when they caught sight of a young maid walk in, supporting nurse Lai.

  • Speaking the while, she espied a young maid walk in with a cup from the 'Ch'eng' kiln, and hand it to old goody Liu.

  • There is nothing meaner than for a man to sneak, and steal a young maid's heart, without her people knowing it.

  • Gwenny Carfax, my young maid, well remembers how her father was brought up from Cornwall.

  • When I saw you I was forced to think even more of a young maid to whom I have done wrong.

  • Torarin saw plainly that behind Sir Archie stole a young maid in a long gray garment, but Sir Archie did not see her.

  • This is not an hour for a young maid to run about the streets of the town.

  • Mother was right fair when she was a young maid, and is none so ill now.

  • Well, but I do desire thee to conceive," saith she, "that too much niceness is not good for a young maid.

  • For indeed, Mother hath oft told us how, when she was a young maid like Milly, she did sorely hate all gloom and sorrowfulness, nor could not abide for to think thereon.

  • Were I to die a young maid, should Milly (that loves to mock me now) tell her children henceforward of their Aunt Helen, as though she had been somewhat better than other women?

  • I am the sister of one Claudio, who, for the seducing a young maid, was condemned to lose his head.

  • But out of pity she would nevertheless give him a trial, and considering that I should ere long be fully grown, and that a young maid's heart is a strange thing, she deemed that a younger teacher might lead it into peril.

  • Tell you what, Rose Allen, being good's all very well, but for a young maid to stick herself up to be better than her neighbours 'll never pay.

  • You wot I am but a young maid, and under direction of mine elders.

  • And for a young maid of nineteen, you know, that's strange fashions.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    but when they are; century afterwards; colorless liquid; drinking wine; having long; moist sugar; sufficient length; young again; young chief; young couple; young creature; young doctor; young feller; young folks; young friends; young girls; young lambs; young lassie; young man; young minister; young mother; young orchard; young shoots; young sirs; young warrior; younger brothers