Sentence examples for maidenhood from inspiring English sources

My beautiful mother-in-law once recalled literally crying in the cold while crossing the street in her Winnipeg maidenhood — and this is in the center of town.

They were trimmed with passementerie that might have been salvaged from a Victorian steamer trunk in which the finery of an old-fashioned maidenhood had been abandoned along with its illusions.

Charly, an example of blooming German maidenhood, comes off as stupid; her blunders serve to advance the plot, not to illuminate the character.

When Christian, alarmed by Ana's maidenhood, considers "rectifying the situation," she replies, "I'm a situation?" — a sharp rejoinder, although if I were her I'd be much more worried about the rectifying.

Maggie Smith's formerly biting character turns grandmotherly, and worst of all, the initially fascinating and lightly cruel Lady Mary Crawley has seemingly been focus-grouped into a kind of dead-eyed, forlorn maidenhood.

It is where Leontes's daughter was abandoned in infancy and has grown into exquisite maidenhood under the care of the kindly Shepherd Max Wrightt) and his son (Mr. Ferguson), who adopted her.

But Mary Jena Malonee) discovers her boyfriend is gay and a vision of Jesus tells her to save him by letting him take her maidenhood.

Yes, I, too, wish the flower of English maidenhood would set its sights a little higher than an evening with Wayne Rooney.

Meanwhile, Hephastion, Alexander's great love, was well described by Simon Raven in an Observer review back in 1970 as: "the most indefatigable yes man of all time who is at last allowed a crack at the prince's maidenhood for hearing out his lengthy obsessions".

The girls were fussily dressed in the insignia of maidenhood, pinnies and skirts, with smocking and dainty collars.

Elizabeth preferred maidenhood it was politically safer and her most useful diplomatic weapon but it gave poignancy to the intrigues of her cousin Mary, Queen of Scots.