10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MAIDENLINESS»
Discover the use of
maidenliness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
maidenliness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
I've lost all sense of maidenliness, you see." "Maidenliness be hanged. You don't
have to be maidenly when you've won your numerals at track." That was on a
Saturday. James had been out of town with the football team and did not return till
...
There had been a time in the mother's life when she herself regarded her
approaching marriage, with a man she did not love, as a horror to which her
natural maidenliness —a thingshe couldnot help—had to be compelled and
subjected: of ...
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Popular Victorian Women Writers
... for learning some maidenliness - so far as maidenliness means decency, pity,
unselfishness, and pretty behaviour' (p. 25). The story was bound in Union Jack
book covers, but its patriotism celebrates, not a soldier who dies for his country, ...
Kay Boardman, Shirley Jones,
2004
There had been a time in the mother's life when she herself regarded her
approaching marriage, withaman she didnot love, as a horror towhichher natural
maidenliness—a thing she couldnot help—had to be compelled andsubjected: of
the ...
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The Church Quarterly Review
She made no silly distinctions as to sex ; she wanted boys to be pure and girls to
be brave. ' In good sooth ' (she writes), ' a young maid is all the better for learning
some robuster virtues than maidenliness and not to move the antimacassars.
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Children's literature: a textbook of sources for teachers ...
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. As, on the other hand, Jackanapes (who had
a ...
Charles Madison Curry, Erle Elsworth Clippinger,
1926
A profusion of varied wild flowers, a prospect of dimpling leafage, an April
maidenliness even, might, one feels, break the congruity of these barrens and the
reciprocity of mood between them and a human lingerer among them. Nor is their
...
Thatfair childish maidenliness had ceased.Withher body straining in her dragon's
grasp, withthe savour of loathing, unableto contend, unable to speak aloud, she
beganto speak to herself, andallthe health of her nature made her outcry ...
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Lady Chatterley's Lover
She had a revulsion againstthe wholeaffair, and almost envied the Guthrie girls
their gawky inexperience and crude maidenliness. And she now dreaded the
thought thatanybody would know about herselfand the keeper. How unspeakably
...
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Bernhard Karlgren: Portrait of A Scholar
But the learned Spira's translation (“O child with maidenliness in her eyes”)
cannot compare with the metrically perfect translation of the schoolboy Bernhard
Karlgren: “Liten jungfru med solskensblick” (“Little girl with sunny eyes”). Spira
has ...
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MAIDENLINESS»
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maidenliness is used in the context of the following news items.
Loop of Brighid: Invocation of the Graces – A Brigidine Sacred Text …
The phrase Carmichael translates as “choice maidenliness” is rogha finne. According to Am Faclair Beag, the word rogha means “the best of” ... «Patheos, Jul 13»
'Bernie' starring Jack Black: movie review (+trailer)
Even MacLaine, whose performances have become so mannered as to be unwatchable, is terrific here. We can glimpse the maidenliness ... «Christian Science Monitor, Apr 12»
Brenda, My Darling: The Love Letters of Fridtjof Nansen to Brenda …
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, ... «Huffington Post, Jan 12»