maiden

• This maiden is my espoused wife; and verily, though thou call hither all thy lictors and the lictors of thy colleagues, she shall not remain in any house save the house of her father To this Appius, seeing that the multitude was greatly moved and were ready to break forth into open violence, made this reply: "Icilius cares not for Virginia, but being a lover of sedition and tumult, seeks an occasion for strife. —  Stories From Livy
• This maiden is the bride But Alice Snowton, my lady. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844
• Say, only, that this maiden is your sister, And that you lost her when a child, and now Know her again for yours Enter PYTHIAS. —  The Comedies of Terence
• I'll away To Menedemus presently; and tell him This maiden is a rich and noble captive, Stolen from Caria; and to ransom her Will greatly profit him CHREM. —  The Comedies of Terence
• When the man had started from his home to seek aid of Jesus, the maiden was at the point of death; he feared lest she had died in the interval. —  Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern

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