Maiden

(n.) An unmarried woman; a girl or woman who has not experienced sexual intercourse; a virgin; a maid.

(n.) A female servant.

(n.) An instrument resembling the guillotine, formerly used in Scotland for beheading criminals.

(n.) A machine for washing linen.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a maiden, or to maidens; suitable to, or characteristic of, a virgin; as, maiden innocence.

(a.) Never having been married; not having had sexual intercourse; virgin; -- said usually of the woman, but sometimes of the man; as, a maiden aunt.

(a.) Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused.

(a.) Used of a fortress, signifying that it has never been captured, or violated.

(v. t.) To act coyly like a maiden; -- with it as an indefinite object.

手打:凯勒

• Much cant have I heard and read about 'maiden modesty,' but, properly used, and not hackneyed, the words are good and appropriate words. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Her voice faltered and her hand trembled, and it was only the cold question of Ivanhoe, Is it you, gentle maiden? 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• I have no portion in thee, cruel, hard-hearted man, said the unfortunate maiden. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Speak, maiden! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Given once, the pure bashful maiden was too modest, too tender, too trustful, too weak, too much woman to recall it. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• He only replied, Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Let them insult my maiden pride as they will--I walk pure before God! 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• But you, maiden, said Rowena--you surely can have nothing to fear. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• It is against my vow to love any maiden, otherwise than 'par amours', as I will love thee. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Get along with you, you wretch,' said the hand-maiden, obviously not ill-pleased with the compliment, however. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• I laughed outright, and she joined me in as gay a shout as ever country maiden in old Orange county. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• I may not deny what thou hast challenged, said the Grand Master, provided the maiden accepts thee as her champion. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• When all was ready, Margaret opened the study door, and went in like a serving-maiden, with a heavy tray held in her extended arms. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• I have chosen no death, maiden, I replied. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Here we may take it that there is a love matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or grieved. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Let all young men present mark this: 'The maidens all flocked to his boat so readily. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• The maidens of Valhalla look forth, The race of Hengist will send them guests. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Quickly I ordered fifty of the prisoners to drop back behind us and form a new circle about the maidens. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Afterwards a number of maidens, with vine-leaf-decorated amphoras of wine, baskets of figs, and bunches of grapes. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• I'll trouble you for a pin, my dear, said Armstrong to one of his attendant maidens. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Most of these maidens were not wealthy, but some few had been very kindly dealt with by fortune. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• One of the maidens presented a silver cup, containing a rich mixture of wine and spice, which Rowena barely put to her lips. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• That room was their boat; that audience were the maidens; and he (Mr. Anthony Humm), however unworthily, was 'first oars' (unbounded applause). 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• When they entered, they found themselves in the presence of about twenty matrons and maidens of distinguished Saxon lineage. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Shake your black tresses, maidens of Valhalla! 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• But, was it the maidens of humble life only, who soothed, consoled, and supported him? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Now enters the chorus proper of young Greek maidens, dressed in black stoles, to denote the sorrowful condition of their country. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Sir Templar, said he, the cheeks of our Saxon maidens have seen too little of the sun to enable them to bear the fixed glance of a crusader. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• The sisterhood, the maidens, flocking round the young waterman, and urging him along the stream of duty and of temperance. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• To look for a glove that was dropped by one of the maidens. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.

整理:玛丽斯