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At this display the elder and less attractive of the maidens fled, uttering loud and continuous cries of apprehension in order to conceal the direction of her flight.
Ernest Bramah
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And I will fare to Avalun, to the fairest of all maidens, to Argante the queen, an elf most fair, and she shall make my wounds all sound.


— c.1190  Brut (translated by Eugene Mason,1912).

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In the highlands, in the country places, Where the old plain men have rosy faces, And the young fair maidens Quiet eyes.

Robert Louis Stevenson

— 1894  Songs ofTravel (published1896), no.16.

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Home they brought her warrior dead. She nor swooned, nor uttered cry: All her maidens, watching said, "She must weep or she will die."

Tennyson

— The Princess, pt. 6, added song, stanza 1 (1850).

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You young maidens, too long constrained by a fanciful Virtue's absurd and dangerous bonds and by those of a disgusting religion, imitate the fiery Eugénie; be as quick as she to destroy, to spurn all those ridiculous precepts inculcated in you by imbecile parents.


— To Libertines

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She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be; Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me: Oh! then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light.

hartley coleridge

— "Song. She is not fair".

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Her very frowns are fairer far Than smiles of other maidens are.

hartley coleridge

— "Song. She is not fair".

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When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed. For there is often a monstrous incongruity between the hopes, however noble and tender, and the action which follows them. It is as if ivied maidens and garlanded youths were to herald the four horsemen of the apocalypse .

Eric Hoffer

— Section 5, Ch. 2: The Desire For Substitutes

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The third order, called Corinthian , is an imitation of the slenderness of a maiden; for the outlines and limbs of maidens, being more slender on account of their tender years, admit of prettier effects in the way of adornment.

vitruvius

— Chapter I, Sec. 8

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At this display the elder and less attractive of the maidens fled, uttering loud and continuous cries of apprehension in order to conceal the direction of her flight.


— "The Encountering of Six within a Wood"

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The bolt of Cupid fell: * * * upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness.

william shakespeare

— William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (c. 1595-1596), Act II, scene 1, line 165.

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The third order, called Corinthian , is an imitation of the slenderness of a maiden; for the outlines and limbs of maidens, being more slender on account of their tender years, admit of prettier effects in the way of adornment.


— Chapter I, Sec. 8 (Book IV)

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In the early years, especially around the mid 90s, I had this feeling you could play around on his ego and get him out. He believed he could attack bowlers at any time and anyone who could bowl maidens to him stood a good chance. Things are of course different now.


— Erapalli Anantharao Srinivas Prasanna [25]

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And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. Yet mark’d I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before, milk-white, now purple with love’s wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness.


— Oberon, scene i

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maidens hearts are always soft:Would that men's were truer!

william cullen bryant

— Song: Dost Thou Idly Ask To Hear, st. 1 (1832).

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maidens withering on the stalk.

william wordsworth

— Personal Talk, Stanza 1.

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Some shout him, and some hang upon his car, To gaze in his eyes, and bless him. maidens wave Their 'kerchiefs, and old women weep for joy; While others, not so satisfied, unhorse The gilded equipage, and turning loose His steeds, usurp a place they well deserve.

william cowper

— William Cowper, The Task (1785), Book VI, line 708.

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maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.

lord byron

— Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto I (1812), Stanza 9.

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Her very frowns are fairer far, than smiles of other maidens are.

hartley coleridge

— Hartley Coleridge, Song, She is not Fair.

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