Sentence examples for maiden down from inspiring English sources

From winning his maiden down in little Kilbeggan to all this – the dream is still alive".

As the basket floats down the river, Pharaoh's daughter and her maidens go down to the Nile to bathe.

It's said that maidens weighed down by gold, jade and carved seashells were tossed into the well to please the gods.

As a scholar of Gothic fiction I research tales about vampires, ghosts and doppelgangers, and incestuous maniacs pursuing maidens down underground passages.

Although recent headlines might indicate otherwise, the owner, the trainer, the jockey and the groom of Eight Belles aren't entitled to a deeper sadness or sense of loss than, say, the handlers of the Hack Rein, an 0-for-7 maiden who "broke down in upper stretch and was vanned off" in the third race at Evangeline Downs in Louisiana, barely one hour after the tragic Run for the Roses.

Perhaps she doesn't understand that the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program is responsible for total oversight of the Troubled Asset Relief Program, and is not, as she seems to assume, some sort of generalized "Robo-Cop" stomping up and down Maiden Lane?

There's one more maiden, tying down Borthwick at one end.

Sword, wand, ship, sandal: at the Flying Star (we talk our way along; improvisation), the cards laid out spell struggle, choice, and pain; also a white horse champing in a green meadow; a maiden moving down a long dark stair.

"Can we, as farmers, collaborate on a distribution system that matches our values and preserves the craft economy?" The boat, loaded with 15 tons of cargo from 30 farms, is about to complete its maiden voyage down the Hudson.

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On Day 1 of an unprecedented arm-poking marathon, working on the grand total of two hours' sleep, Rollins exited the Olympic speedskating oval in this suburban neighborhood of boxy one-story homes, Mormon churches and snow-covered athletic fields, trying to hold the figurative line as his drug-testing program took its maiden run down a sensitive and slippery slope.