maidens

Farfán devotes a chapter to the menstruation problems of criollas, which according to the doctor was so common that "we see it everyday in maidens, married women, and widows."

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

We have no females of our own and must propagate by enticing maidens from the walled towns.

Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Where Is the Bird Of Fire? - Thomas Burnett Swann Blue Tyson 2008

So, with the dawn, there was much trampling of hoofs and baying of hounds as all the knights got to horse; but Queen Guenevere herself, though she had said she would ride with the hunt, slept late, and when she called her maidens to her, it was broad day.

Stories from Le Morte D'Arthur and the Mabinogion Beatrice Clay

For this, as perhaps you know, dear maidens, is the degree of any hart that has been chased by royalty.

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard 1922

For this, as perhaps you know, dear maidens, is the degree of any hart that has been chased by royalty.

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard 1921

The good Queen, Inga's mother, found it was too dark to work at her embroidery, so she called her maidens together and told them wonderful stories of bygone days, in order to pass away the dreary hours.

Rinkitink in Oz Baum, L. Frank 1916

Where girls whom none call maidens laugh, where gain,

Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti Hall Caine 1892

And girls whom none call maidens laugh, -- strange road,

Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti Hall Caine 1892

The good Queen, Inga's mother, found it was too dark to work at her embroidery, so she called her maidens together and told them wonderful stories of bygone days, in order to pass away the dreary hours.

Rinkitink in Oz 1887

The good Queen, Inga's mother, found it was too dark to work at her embroidery, so she called her maidens together and told them wonderful stories of bygone days, in order to pass away the dreary hours.

Rinkitink in Oz 1887