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Maiden in sentence

232 examples of Maiden in a sentence

(Meyers used his mother's maiden name when he became an actor instead of O'Keefe).
Everyone was complaining about the fact that Steve Harris (Maiden bassist) had edited it, so I thought they were kidding me.
Life can be tough when you are a resurrected French vampire maiden.
I was blown away by the beauty of the actress playing the Indian maiden in this film.
Definitely see this picture, if only to relish Kierston Wareing's maiden performance.
Seeking to trap the guy, the dastardly Lord High Chamberlain (Porky Pig) comes up with a most devious scheme: marry fair maiden Melissa off to the unpleasant Grand Duke (Sylvester the Cat).
Kinski does well as an extremely fair maiden in distress (and performs a truly startling full-frontal nude scene at the movie's conclusion).
By February 2013, these ten African economies had collectively raised $8.1 billion from their maiden sovereign-bond issues, with an average maturity of 11.2 years and an average coupon rate of 6.2%.
Trump on the WarpathNEW YORK – Fifteen years after George W. Bush declared that Iraq, Iran, and North Korea formed “an axis of evil,” Donald Trump, in his maiden address to the United Nations, denounced Iran and North Korea in similarly vitriolic terms.
Having been commissioned by all-powerful Zeus and designed to his cruel specifications by Hephaestus, the god of invention, Pandora was a lifelike android created to look like a bewitching maiden.
I said in my maiden speech in the Legislative Council in 1985 that the policy of “one country, two systems” cannot work without democracy.
But Anna did not return alone, she brought with her her old maiden aunt, Princess Oblonskaya.
The maiden was the first to recover from her surprise, and, when she did, she clasped her hands, and said, wildly:"Oh, Henry, then WHERE is auntie?"
Then, when he was nigh unto death, lo! through the savage gloom there came to him a stately maiden, and took him by the hand and led him on through devious paths, unknown to any man, until upon the darkness of the wood there dawned a light such as the light of day was unto but as a little lamp unto the sun; and, in that wondrous light, our way-worn knight saw as in a dream a vision, and so glorious, so fair the vision seemed, that of his bleeding wounds he thought no more, but stood as one entranced, whose joy is deep as is the sea, whereof no man can tell the depth.
The ladies were, a maiden of forty, and two much younger, who did not seem, indeed, to have reached half those years.
Their orderly quietude had soon given them so much consideration in the neighborhood, as to induce a maiden of five-and-thirty to forget the punctilio of her sex, and to accept the office of presiding over their domestic comforts.
But, Tom, what will George's sister say to this fair-haired maiden, in yonder white building?"
"Merciful providence!" exclaimed the agitated maiden, "he would not injure one with it, certainly."
The prudent housekeeper had kept her political feelings in a state of rigid neutrality; her own friends had espoused the cause of the country, but the maiden herself never lost sight of that important moment, when, like females of more illustrious hopes, she might be required to sacrifice her love of country on the altar of domestic harmony.
After fleeing a short distance they paused, and the maiden commenced in a solemn voice,-"Oh!Caesar, was it not dreadful to walk before he had been laid in his grave!
"Maybe a spook take away Harvey, too," observed Caesar, moving still nearer to the side of the maiden.
"Oh!" cried the maiden, again correcting herself, "for the best of all reasons; there was none to be had, so I took care of him myself.
His head, which nature had ornamented with the blackness of a crow, now shone with the whiteness of snow; and his bony hand, that so well became the saber, peered from beneath a ruffle with something like maiden coyness.
Thus attired, and standing erect with the lofty grace that distinguished the manners of that day, the maiden would have looked into nothingness a bevy of modern belles.
Colonel Wellmere was honored with a smile from Sarah, while performing a similar duty; and Frances gave the ends of her taper fingers to Captain Lawton with maiden bashfulness.
After casting her eyes around the small assemblage, the housekeeper found the countenances of the few females, who were present, fixed on her in solemn expectation, and the effect was instantaneous; the maiden really wept, and she gained no inconsiderable sympathy, and some reputation for a tender heart, from the spectators.
"A gala suit of the good maiden, Jeanette Peyton, wandering around its birthplace, or searching in vain for its discomfited mistress?"
"Nay," returned the maiden, meekly, and slightly disgusted with his jargon, "I pretend not to judge of either events, or the intentions of my fellow creatures, much less of those of Omnipotence."
To the eager inquiries of Miss Peyton, relative to her success in her romantic excursion, Frances could say no more than that she was bound to be silent, and to recommend the same precaution to the good maiden also.
There was one, my own left-hand man, Mike Threadingham, who kept telling about his maiden aunt, Sarah, and how she had left the money which had been promised to him to a home for the children of drowned sailors.
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