| As a married woman, Mrs. Darcy retained the brightness and the unshakable ability to be at ease in every situation of her maidenhood. |
| Are there not charms by which the property of youth and maidenhood may be abused? |
| She took up music again, and languages, drawing, painting, and the other long-discarded delights of her maidenhood. |
| The queen was beyond the blush of maidenhood, but dressed in maidenly green like the first hesitant uncurling feathery buds of April. |
| It was not only her maidenhood that she parted with it was also any remaining hope at the reconciliation with her family. |
| Three of the plays deal with young women about to be married but who still enjoy the relative freedom of maidenhood. |
