Pieta's voice was of a contralto color, and though not very strong, it was maidenly and soft. |
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Raven felt the heat rise again within her, and the blush that crept to her cheeks this time had nothing to do with maidenly modesty. |
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I tried my best to look maidenly and modest, as I should, though I was near to bursting with pride and excitement. |
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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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Well, I feel pretty and maidenly without bounding my tresses. |
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This maidenly approach on the part of the modern biographer has something refreshing about it. |
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He will imagine a radiant recovery, Nettie's acquiring a tall and maidenly body, their life together. |
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Robyn stood back and clasped her hands together, miming maidenly awe. |
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There's nothing maidenly about them either, as they charge about, tossing migraine-heavy heads, bare feet slapping the floor, to take up poses suggestive of coitus or childbirth. |
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Maidenly honour is tricked into a fatal moment of weakness which the ballad-monger, as though with a sly wink, seems actually to condone. |
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