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Sentence Examples The secular clergy from nearby parishes recruited maidens from needy or troubled homes. It had murals that dated back to the late 50s depicting native chiefs and topless maidens. It includes dances representing good and evil forces in the form of maidens and devils. It spans musical emotions from the jagged shrieking solos of the sorceress to the seductive siren songs of the maidens. The ladies giggled and simpered like maidens half their age and allowed themselves to be escorted outside. I always thought torture was bamboo shoots under the fingernails and iron maidens and such. These objects were often decorated with figural motifs including dancing maidens, birds, or baskets of flowers. Apparently comely Irish maidens are a thing of the past, and women have arrived showing more flesh than fabric. A series of dances by warriors, Persian slave girls, and Polovtsian maidens followed one another in pounding rhythms. He had a youthful face, not yet weathered like the rest and whenever ashore was quite popular with maidens and wenches alike. Well, science fiction, when I started reading it in 1930, was mostly bug-eyed monsters threatening nubile maidens. For the people the king erected almonries at the four gates of the capital, and hospitals, with slave boys and maidens to wait upon the sick. Do not be afraid of disappearing into a fantasy land of castles, maidens and jousting knights for an hour or two. One of my English correspondents has recently spent a couple of months in Indonesia and mentioned with approval the dusky maidens there. Unicorns are renowned for their pickiness, only allowing human and elfin maidens of pure heart to ride them. One by one the maidens waltzed with the young prince, hoping to win his heart, but his heart belonged to Odette. On the third tour, he turned old women into Indian maidens and old men into players of cops and robbers. She enticed local girls to her castle, where she hung them in metal cages and stuffed them into iron maidens. During the medieval era of chivalry, the names of English maidens and bachelors were put into boxes and drawn out in pairs. Three maidens and a wicket in the first five overs increased the pressure on the Dolphins batsmen as they set off chasing a big target. Show More Sentences There boys and girls alike competed naked, which got Spartan maidens the reputation for being rather fast. When Scotland head south this week for three games in five days, maidens of a different ilk will be on their minds, of course. According to him, the maidens were able to enter the temenos unharmed over a number of years, despite the vigilance of the inhabitants of Ilion. The frolicsome maidens of the early tapestries end as victims and victimizers on the barricades. Ward also tossed around the idea of bolstering the purses of maiden races so owners of winning horses that break their maidens see a good return on their investment. Is there more to U.S. involvement overseas than the fairy tale of knights saving fair maidens from dragons? I follow his footsteps, thrusting my codpiece towards maidens and wenches alike, my tasselled loafers pounding the aged cobblestones, my tights itching my thighs. These constricted walkways close one in but then open into wide courtyards where young maidens dance around wells, their sing-song voices light and lustrous. Before the commencement of the festival young maidens put their names into a hat and the young men picked out the name of the girl who would be their partner for the festival. Das Rheingold tells the story of the stealing of the gold of the Rhine maidens by Alberich, king of the Nibelungs, and the forging and theft of the magic ring. On this occasion relays of patriotic maidens in virginal white paraded reverently before a temple of philosophy erected where the high altar had stood. Far more common are the direct iconographic or poetic references to the classical goddesses Diana, Cynthia and Astraea or to Petrarch's chaste maidens, Laura and Tuccia. Victims of chlorosis were usually maidens in their middle teens. Now the fragments of the treasure map are tattooed on the supple bodies of several comely maidens, and it's a race to be the first to undress them. Among the most popular traditional folk songs were those that told stories of settlers, voyageurs, or kings, and courtships between maidens and young men. I wandered about tripping over palm roots and bumping into dusky maidens in my fit of jet-lag and bliss, before falling asleep among the other bodies and bright cushions. Only the bravest knights and fairest maidens were invited to a medieval-themed Mossy Castle for the revelry to end all revelries. They consisted of heavily embroidered tunics and satin trousers and yashmaks for us dancing maidens. The poem Volundarkvida, or the Lay of Volund, part of the Poetic Edda, also features swan maidens. The two maidens on the card appear relatively straightforward and perhaps doubling Burma Bridge with Panatella is the way to go. Show More Sentences Espinoza rides Richard Mandella-trained Horse Greeley, coming off a four-length victory over maidens. The boto is the subject of a legend in Brazil about a dolphin that turns into a man and seduces maidens by the riverside. Caprio can fulfil the promise he has shown in maidens by getting off the mark at Wolverhampton. The tribes chose annually two teams of the fairest maidens who fought each other ceremonially with sticks and stones. And if you'll so arrange it, Mrs. Swisshelm, You needn't join the maidens when we kissle 'em. Their exploits are intermingled with encounters with maidens and hermits who offer advice and interpret dreams along the way. A Tumad rebellion broke out in 1217, when Genghis Khan allowed his viceroy to seize 30 Tumad maidens. In fact, it is Warwick International School of Riding and the only maidens are the ones trotting ponies overjumps in a neighbouring field. Brian Meehan, who won the race last year with Romantic Liason, has three entries, comprising the maidens Ann Summers Two, Incise and Lucayan Beauty. Legend says that the Latins invited the Sabines to a festival and stole their unmarried maidens, leading to the integration of the Latins with the Sabines. Examiner ended the treble chance of trainer Mark Johnston and Joe Fanning jockey, who combined for a near 14-1 double from maidens Outbacker and Swivel. After their meal, farm hands and maidens go out and dance around the last sheaf, the forecutter then cuts it off and the sheaf is brought home under cheering. Examples from Classical Literature Whilst neas and Achates were still gazing, Queen Dido drew near with a great retinue of maidens and youths. A snood, or bandeau of riband or worsted tape, was the only head-dress for maidens. For the rest, she played with her maidens the live-long day, or took her broidery frame, plying the needle and long silken thread. With dance and song the Delian maidens still hailed the divinity of Lt's son. The sending of the maidens to propitiate the god during the Delphinia commemorates this event in the life of Theseus. His wife added to this care uneasiness as to the deportment of her three maidens. With them went a herald and sacrificer, and two bands of youths and maidens. In conformity with this conception the Libyan maidens earned their dowery by their surrender. The story in question is the famous one of the young man St. Nicholas and his gifts to the dowerless maidens. I seemed to see the ever-loving lady, followed by her chosen maidens carrying the heart in its ebony and silver box. These maidens begin to dance on the green grass, and so featly do they step that they scarce seem to touch the ground. It reached the ears of the fair Gerd as she sat in her chamber with her maidens. If the truth were told, she now envied the meanest of those maidens that security which her lack of beauty had guarantied. In all the copies Holy maidens is made, absurdly enough, part of the stage direction. In the evening we refreshed our fancies by witnessing the kanga, or drums beating to the dances of the maidens of Zinder. As she talked with the other maidens, she glanced furtively toward the door of the konak, where Amesa sat. There are other maidens unwedded in Latium and Laurentine fields, and of no mean birth. Then the lady, left alone, closed her lattice window and went up to her own room followed by her maidens. And the bride-maid has been chosen from among the sweetest maidens of the telemark? But as soon as lox finished, the maidens all set upon the stranger, and beat him till he ran away into the woods. Show More Sentences On the path in front of him lox spied a couple of maidens, and they were trying to reach the fruit that grew on a wild plum-tree. The matinal hour devoted to this refreshing walk was to both maidens the calmest and happiest of the twenty-four. Very courteous was the knight, and meetly schooled in what was due to maidens. But white wives being difficult to obtain, mestiza maidens had generally to be accepted, or rather, taken in their stead. This arrangement we meet with in the maidens of the Parthenon frieze and in a bust of Niobe. The Spartan maidens were required to exercise in the palestra, almost naked, in the presence of men and strangers. The model for these was doubtless taken from the basket-bearing maidens of the Panathenaic procession, the Canephor. A rapid walk soon restored the maidens to their own peaceful homes. But, before he was out of hearing, one of the maidens called after him. The maidens of Valhalla look forth, The race of Hengist will send them guests. One of the maidens presented a silver cup, containing a rich mixture of wine and spice, which Rowena barely put to her lips. My thoughts were bent on no such vanities, but rather mingled in consolation with those of the maidens. The poorer maidens find their own at a precociously early age. The kind of bench which Alma-Tadema usually fills with diaphanous maidens. Whereat those maidens, with wild stare, Walk'd dizzily away. The figures of the mayoress and a train of lovely maidens then passed by. The abduction of maidens and wives is more frequent in the epos. To these maidens, thus united, came Emilia home from Europe. Unsighted in three runs in maidens, he was sent off at 50-1 having his handicap debut but shaped with a modicum of promise. Before the chariot flashed the bright escort of maidens armed with bow and arrow. Show More Sentences Ever since there have only been six stars, the six maidens, in the Pleiad. The first words of the maidens on awaking, were to thank their liberators. Behind yonder rock is my balsa and with it are the two maidens. There is no parleying with him from some rock or oak tree as young men and maidens prattle with one another. The rhyme which the Scottish maidens sang about Bannockburn is lost. The maidens of Bernicia wept when the loss of Agitha was known. Is not Boaz, with whose maidens you have been, a relative of ours? She utterly despised weaklings and had no pity for lovesick maidens. A boy clad in a blue shirt leaped from the wagon and attempted to drag after him one of the maidens, who screamed and protested shrilly. How, in thy father's halls, among the maidens Pure and reproachless of thy princely line, Could the dishonored Lalage abide? Homer pictures the youths and the maidens pressing the vines together. Arms that seize resistless maidens and enfold them, willy-nilly! Elliot sat side by side under a palm tree, holding fans, handkerchiefs, and brooches deposited in their laps by flushed maidens. She could still see him in action with the seven luscious maidens. I am, indeed, very much inclined to believe that Marnoo, with his handsome person and captivating manners, was a sad deceiver among the simple maidens of the island. John Gosden, Rainbow View's trainer, saddles Hawfinch, while Clive Brittain, who won this contest with Albabilia in 2007, is represented by maidens Semayyel and Wahylah. And the captain gasped out his last under the palm trees of the isle unnamable while the brown maidens wept about him and fanned the air to his parching lungs. A new ship was built, and set with black sails, and in it the youths and maidens who were appointed for the king of the beasts embarked and set out for his country. The berry pickers, youths and maidens, laughed and shouted boisterously. Tea was ready in the shade of a promising copper beech, and I could see groups on the lawn of young men and maidens appropriately clothed, playing lawn tennis in the sunshine. Show More Sentences Some youths and maidens were of soberer garb, yet well maintained their places in the irregular throng by the expression of wild revelry upon their features. And dominating the look are the evocative crenelations, battlements designed to inspire thoughts of medieval castles, bold knights and distressed maidens. Find more words! 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