maidenish

And so at the old-maidenish age of 27 I find myself the mistress of the family fortune, and the guardian of a nearly-grown ward.

Archive 2005-12-01 Holly 2005

And so at the old-maidenish age of 27 I find myself the mistress of the family fortune, and the guardian of a nearly-grown ward.

March 28, 1871 Holly 2005

She might be sneering at him secretly behind that mask of powdery cosmetics, or she might—all things being possible—have taken a maidenish pleasure in acting out the wedding.

Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

She might be sneering at him secretly behind that mask of powdery cosmetics, or she might—all things being possible—have taken a maidenish pleasure in acting out the wedding.

Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

She might be sneering at him secretly behind that mask of powdery cosmetics, or she might—all things being possible—have taken a maidenish pleasure in acting out the wedding.

Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

She might be sneering at him secretly behind that mask of powdery cosmetics, or she might—all things being possible—have taken a maidenish pleasure in acting out the wedding.

Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

She might be sneering at him secretly behind that mask of powdery cosmetics, or she might—all things being possible—have taken a maidenish pleasure in acting out the wedding.

Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

“Come, come,” says Western, “none of your maidenish airs; I know all; I assure you sister hath told me all.”

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004

She might be sneering at him secretly behind that mask of powdery cosmetics, or she might—all things being possible—have taken a maidenish pleasure in acting out the wedding.

Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

After their maidenish bashfulness is once lost, I, in fact, have generally observed, that women fall into old habits; and treat their husbands as they did their sisters or female acquaintance.

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 2002