damsels

• The men reciprocated with dainty chaplets for the damsels, and they all resumed their ride toward the meadow where the maypole waited. —  The Many-Coloured Land -- Julian May
• For the damsels were as blithe as larks, more playful than kittens; never looking sad and sentimental, projecting clandestine escapes. —  Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2)
• Janni obeyed and lost his heart to one of the sea damsels, and, sorely smitten, went to a wise woman to know what he should do to win her, and was told that he must boldly seize her in the whirl of the dance and hold her, no matter what happened. —  The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume II
• Sweet and dainty were the damsels, alike in raiment and in face. —  French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France
• So the Queen chose of her Court thirty damsels--the sweetest of face and most dainty of fashion--and commanded that they should descend with her to take their delight in the garden. —  French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France

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