Nearby stands "The Greek Slave", a classical white Christian maiden in chains by an American sculptor, Hiram Powers, that became a sensation of the day.
Serenity, the white marble maiden reclining along 16th Street, has lost her nose and left hand, and the James Buchanan memorial is often marred by graffiti.
Those "white little maidens," as James called them, grew into "her long white progeny," whose "vitality is not sufficiently exuberant".
The corps de ballet, a dazzle of white swan maidens, was as harmonious as audiences have come to expect from the Mariinsky.
The narrator states that they once overheard a "high-minded", "golden-haired", and "white-armed" maiden speaking with a "glossy-beaked raven".
Cigarette brands were still cosy household names, sponsoring such beloved figures as radio's Jack Benny; Coca-Cola was still a synonym for wholesomeness, with white-gloved maidens sipping it from their pure lips.
White, who chronicled his maiden effort at falconry in "The Goshawk," written just before he began work on "The Once and Future King".
Gripping as the plot is, I was equally hooked on the minor characters: exploited blacks, white trailer-trash, genteel maiden aunts, all brought to life by Starr's unflagging characterisation.
Although Odette, the Swan Queen, is still in white, all the swan-maidens now wear black.
The participants were served iced tea by miko, shrine maidens wearing white blouses and bright orange skirt-like trousers called hakama, their long ponytails cinched in white ribbons.
