I do not exactly know why, but it is like you, to me you have the same maidenliness - and the sun is laughing, and the fjord out there is glittering, and existence is beauty!... ❋ Unknown (2012)
She had a revulsion against the whole affair, and almost envied the Guthrie girls their gawky inexperience and crude maidenliness. ❋ Unknown (2004)
A man of her own class he would not mind, for Connie was gifted from nature with this appearance of demure, submissive maidenliness, and perhaps it was part of her nature. ❋ Unknown (2004)
For forty years he had kept all the women of his acquaintance speculating as to his plans; marriageable women especially -- perhaps fifty of them -- had been able in all maidenliness to indicate to him that they might easily be persuaded to share the Pomeroy name and fortune. ❋ Kathleen Thompson Norris (1923)
She observed that my eyes were upon her, and in an act of instinctive maidenliness she bore her hand to her throat to draw the draperies together and screen the beauties of her neck from my unwarranted glance, as though her daily gown did not reveal as much and more of them. ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)
She sat up straight, by force of her instinctive maidenliness, but she kissed him back when he kissed her. ❋ Unknown (1910)
In good sooth, a young maid is all the better for learning some robuster virtues than maidenliness and not to move the antimacassars; and the robuster virtues require some fresh air and freedom. ❋ Charles Madison Curry (1906)
As, on the other hand, Jackanapes (who had a boy's full share of the little beast and the young monkey in his natural composition) was none the worse, at his tender years, for learning some maidenliness, -- so far as maidenliness means decency, pity, unselfishness, and pretty behavior. ❋ Charles Madison Curry (1906)
Constance had been there all the time, but of course, though she heard the remembered voice, her maidenliness had not permitted that she should show herself to Mr. Scales. ❋ Arnold Bennett (1899)
In her close-clinging habit, with her black braids securely pinned, a handful of lilies drooping at her waist, and the whole of her fair young figure invested with a sort of stately maidenliness, she formed a sufficient contrast to Rose, who, perched defiantly upon her wicked little steed, looked every inch a rogue. ❋ A. Ethelwyn Wetherald (1898)
Then the stars will pale before a glory more intense, the countless little leaves, like delicate human emotions, will wake and stir, and the white mists of maidenliness will be warmed with heavenly radiance. ❋ A. Ethelwyn Wetherald (1898)
With all her unconscious revelation of herself, however, there was that in her which was pure maidenliness. ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)
At that moment she seemed to throw out protecting antennæ of maidenliness; and, besides, there was always the memory of the cut in wages, for which she still judged him; and then there was the long neglect. ❋ Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1891)
As he rose to his feet and stood before her, he too dared not speak for fear of bruising what he deemed an exquisite maidenliness, before which his manhood was abashed at itself. ❋ Egerton Castle (1889)
Perhaps it occurred to Lady Theobald that the contrast of English reserve and maidenliness with the free-and-easy manners of young women from Nevada might lead to some good result. ❋ Frances Hodgson Burnett (1886)
The personality beside her seemed to be laying an intimate, encroaching hand upon her own, and her maidenliness shrank before it. ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)
Her modern realism played with the thought quite freely; her maidenliness, proud and pure as it was, being nowise ashamed. ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)
As, on the other hand, Jackanapes (who had a boy's full share of the little beast and the young monkey in his natural composition) was none the worse, at his tender years, for learning some maidenliness – so far as maidenliness means decency, pity, unselfishness, and pretty behaviour. ❋ Unknown (1879)
