How To Use maidenly In A Sentence
- Her bonnet wasn't big enough to hide her face, and she feared he might think the joy it betrayed unmaidenly.
- The remainder continue their unmaidenly journey in search of husbands, whom they find waiting in cheerful readiness in almost any marsh.
- She lifted the bouquet from the ground, and then, as if inwardly ashamed at having stepped aside from her maidenly reserve to respond to a stranger's greeting, passed swiftly homeward through the garden.
- On maidenly wise she was shamefast at the first, yet so great was The Fall of the Niebelungs
- Of course the circumspection of the local youth had never gone the length of making her a social proscript; for the proportion of those whose hearts, as they approached her, beat only just fast enough to make it a sensible pleasure was sufficient to redeem her maidenly career from failure. Chapter IV
- Well, I feel pretty and maidenly without bounding my tresses.
- The queen was beyond the blush of maidenhood, but dressed in maidenly green like the first hesitant uncurling feathery buds of April.
- I tried my best to look maidenly and modest, as I should, though I was near to bursting with pride and excitement.
- Her elderly husband took a shine to her peculiar ways and allowed her to do most unmaidenly things, such as learning how to use a sword.
- Never divining Joan's fluttering wildness, her blind hatred of restraint and compulsion, her abhorrence of mastery by another, and mistaking the warmth and enthusiasm in her eyes (aroused by his latest tale) for something tender and acquiescent, he drew her to him, laid a forcible detaining arm about her waist, and misapprehended her frantic revolt for an exhibition of maidenly reluctance. Chapter 26
