The summer dawn's reflected hue To purple changed Lock Katrine blue, Mildly and soft the western breeze Just kiss'd the lake, just… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Chastity seems to have come as a late development. What the primitive maiden dreaded was not the loss of her virginity but… — Charmian Clift Copy Share Image
There's no denying that the way horror has been packaged in the past has done it no favours. Lurid black covers adorned… — Tim Lebbon Copy Share Image
Yes, yes, mistress, I shall go and accomplish your task. Only—I was not only sent to kill the Leucrotta. There is a… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Perhaps a maiden's bashfulness is more A matron's lesson than our lips aver. — Alfred Austin Copy Share Image
Nothing so lowers a lover in a virile maiden's estimation, than for him to be 'whipped' in a personal encounter with a… — Arthur Desmond Copy Share Image
With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipped maiden And many a lightfoot lad. — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
Can rules or tutors educate The semigod whom we await? He must be musical, Tremulous, impressional, Alive to gentle influence Of landscape… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“If the bible be true, God commanded his chosen people to destroy men simply for the crime of defending their native land.… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind. Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky And the affrighted steed ran… — Stephen Crane Copy Share Image
[T]he House of Maidens was for little girls whose whole duty in life was to spill things, break things, and forget things… — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
Once let a maiden admit the possibility of her being stricken with love for some one at a certain hour and place,… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Maidens stand still, they are lovely statues and all admire them. Witches do not stand still. I was neither, but better that… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
It is a condition of monsters that they do not perceive themselves as such. The dragon, you know, hunkered in the village… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
I guess it was the first time I really thought about leaving. I don't just mean Iron Maiden, I mean quitting music… — Bruce Dickinson Copy Share Image
Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die... — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
[On journalists:] They are the scavengers of society who, possessing no guts of their own, tear out the guts of celebrities. They… — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
Come, hearken then, ere voice of dread, with bitter tiding laden, shall summon to unwelcome bed a melancholy maiden! We are but… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
The government are behaving like a bevy of maiden aunts who have fallen among buccaneers. — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
Here 's to the maiden of bashful fifteen; Here 's to the widow of fifty; Here 's to the flaunting, extravagant queen,… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
Then, Éowyn of Rohan, I say to you that you are beautiful. In the valleys of our hills there are flowers fair… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nor shall this peace sleep with her; but as when The bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix, Her ashes new-create another… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Let first the onion flourish there, Rose among roots, the maiden-fair, Wine-scented and poetic soul Of the capacious salad bowl. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
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