“There was a minor collision, and Sean jumped off his bicycle to help the young maiden get to her feet.”

“Three of the plays deal with young women about to be married but who still enjoy the relative freedom of maidenhood.”

“The queen was beyond the blush of maidenhood, but dressed in maidenly green like the first hesitant uncurling feathery buds of April.”

“Are there not charms by which the property of youth and maidenhood may be abused?”

“Zara then hires a maid to clean her apartment and do some caring for her elderly mother.”

“He was scared of disturbing the landlady, a grumpy old maid who had never married and had a mouth that could tear people apart.”

“A young justice, the Governer of the town, saw the young maid and fell in love with her.”

“The door opened to find Alban standing with Lady Madeline seated besides her maidservant.”

“In an epiphanic moment, the heroine, already skeptical of Raj, discovers him in bed with the maidservant only days before the marriage.”

“On New Year's Day 1753 an eighteen-year-old London maidservant called Elizabeth Canning was abducted in the City by two ruffians.”

“The novel explores the challenges and expectations associated with transitioning from maidenship to womanhood in a conservative society.”

“He never was the courteous knighte, To saye, faire maide, will ye ride?”

“And she was ever too loving a maide To saye, sir knighte abide.”

“One by one the maidens waltzed with the young prince, hoping to win his heart, but his heart belonged to Odette.”

“During the medieval era of chivalry, the names of English maidens and bachelors were put into boxes and drawn out in pairs.”

“For the people the king erected almonries at the four gates of the capital, and hospitals, with slave boys and maidens to wait upon the sick.”

“The kitchen maid had let it slip out that one of the maids had slipped something into the Queen's supper.”

“Between sobs he had stirred, whisked, and vehemently scolded the kitchen maids into attending their own bowls as reverently as he did his own.”

“I was bored, and those silly ninnies you call scullery maids are no fun at all.”