Sentence examples for like a maiden from inspiring English sources

Indeed, poor Marina often feels like a maiden – or a troll.

"What?" Barry said, and suddenly he was blushing like a maiden.

I like to be the first to do things; every time I take up another challenge in music, it is like a maiden voyage.

Here's a sample from the cricket passage in Finnegans Wake: "His gentleman's grip and his playaboy's plunge and his flannelly feelyfooling, treading her hump and hambledown like a maiden wellheld".

(There was also some poetry, modelled on verses in Tolkien and in Bulfinch's Mythology. "Do you know what a virgin actually is?" my dad asked me upon reading it. "Like a maiden?" I ventured).

"I've tried to recommend a study [whereby they] write a race like a maiden claiming, $20,000 for example, at five furlongs with medication, and write one race for $20,000 over five furlongs with no medication," he said.

Stepping back through its doors must have felt, to regulars, like seeing a maiden aunt returning from Los Angeles sporting a boob job and Botox.

He thought the ground was a bit loose on top for him but, all in all, he's won and, when you come for a race like this from a maiden, you hope they do".

Ambridge is smitten like a village maiden.

"I was hoping to be treated a little bit more like a Moorish maiden".

That woman was like a Heavenly Maiden, but I know she was the ghost of a virgin who had died a very long time ago.