Sentence examples for maidenly from inspiring English sources

There's nothing maidenly about them either, as they charge about, tossing migraine-heavy heads, bare feet slapping the floor, to take up poses suggestive of coitus or childbirth.

If he seems considerably older, it's because he gives a performance of cocksure experience, while Fontaine had honed her maidenly timidity four years earlier as the heroine-victim in Alfred Hitchcock's film of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca.

Higginson justly called her mist "fiery": her work scintillates with erotic tension, and even in the letters she wrote him her lowered eyes seem more geishalike than maidenly.

This maidenly approach on the part of the modern biographer has something refreshing about it.

He will imagine a radiant recovery, Nettie's acquiring a tall and maidenly body, their life together.

B "waits out litigation" with what seems to be "maidenly reserve".

I own a tiny edition of Miss Leslie's "Domestic French Cooking," which was published in Philadelphia in 1832 and stayed in print for the next quarter century, and which I cherish for its recipe for oyster stuffing and its maidenly shudder at the voluptuary French practice of fattening geese.

The show's actual soldiers, the short-tempered centurion Vorenus (Kevin McKidd) and the companionable legionary Pullo (Ray Stevenson), are comparatively maidenly.

She was wearing one of her high-necked maidenly gowns, and her face had a pallor that was like flour paste.

Cora begins "The Chaperone" with quaint, even smug thoughts about racial integration, wifely submissiveness and maidenly virtue.

And, feigning an interest in insurance, he cries, "I'm ripe- pluck me" with a mock-maidenly glee.