| So, you know, I think it's a disservice to talk about the voyeuristic qualities or this business about her maidenhood and that kind of stuff. |
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| In one novel the deserted maiden loses a lock of hair, in the other her maidenhood. |
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| He wanted me to be kept so I could be married to a prince or king with my maidenhood intact. |
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| As Darcy entered the room, he could well understand why Wickham had posed no threat to Miss Bennet's maidenhood. |
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| She took up music again, and languages, drawing, painting, and the other long-discarded delights of her maidenhood. |
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| Three of the plays deal with young women about to be married but who still enjoy the relative freedom of maidenhood. |
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| Are there not charms by which the property of youth and maidenhood may be abused? |
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| The queen was beyond the blush of maidenhood, but dressed in maidenly green like the first hesitant uncurling feathery buds of April. |
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| It was not only her maidenhood that she parted with it was also any remaining hope at the reconciliation with her family. |
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| As a married woman, Mrs. Darcy retained the brightness and the unshakable ability to be at ease in every situation of her maidenhood. |
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| The celtic crone, having slept through the dead winter, awakens restored to maidenhood. |
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| His wife, who in her maidenhood was Ms. Grace, was a native of Ireland, and in her girlhood days came to the United States with her parents. |
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| They were trimmed with passementerie that might have been salvaged from a Victorian steamer trunk in which the finery of an old-fashioned maidenhood had been abandoned along with its illusions. |
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| Maggie Smith's formerly biting character turns grandmotherly, and worst of all, the initially fascinating and lightly cruel Lady Mary Crawley has seemingly been focus-grouped into a kind of dead-eyed, forlorn maidenhood. |
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| My beautiful mother-in-law once recalled literally crying in the cold while crossing the street in her Winnipeg maidenhood — and this is in the center of town. |
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