"Noble ladies and highborn maidens, with high collars and caps of pearls, sit behind the open windows and see all the splendor.
The daughters were tall, elegant, slender maidens.
"Oh, it is Rudy," said the maidens; but they did not say, "Save yourselves from Rudy.
"None of them are engaged yet," said their mother, and the beetle maidens tittered again, this time quite in confusion.
He glanced, with a very critical eye, at all the flower-beds, and found that the flowers were seated quietly and demurely on their stalks, just as maidens should sit before they are engaged; but there was a great number of them, and it appeared as if his search would become very wearisome.
Sounds of singing and castanets can be heard, and youths and maidens dance upon the flowering acacia trees, while even the beggar sits upon a block of marble, refreshing himself with a juicy melon, and dreamily enjoying life.
From me have gone forth to the world those wonderful descriptions of troops of charming maidens, and of brave knights on prancing steeds; of the halt and the blind, and I know not what more, for I assure you I never think of these things.
She reached the entrance of the village, and saw the young laboring men and maidens standing together chatting, and her own mother amongst them.
Then the men and maidens danced, and sung in a circle round the blazing pile.
The long, colored tapestry, on which she and her maidens had worked pictures of their idols, Odin, Thor, and Friga, was hung up.
In the shed stood two Maidens of this kind.
The elfin maidens we're already dancing on the elf hill, and they danced in shawls woven from moonshine and mist, which look very pretty to those who like such things.
Three coffins, in which lay the three beautiful maidens, glided from the thickest part of the forest across the lake.
Your sister Anastasia is the most beautiful and most innocent of maidens, and she shall consecrate the deed.
She was young and beautiful, and a train of lovely maidens followed her, each wearing a bright star in her hair.
But the king would not listen to this; he ordered the music to sound, the daintiest dishes to be served, and the loveliest maidens to dance.
" "Do you remember," said the canary, "the pretty maidens who used to dance in the tents that were spread out beneath the sweet blossoms?
Here sat two maidens, one young, and the other old, as if they had come and were waiting to accompany their mistresses home; but on looking at them more closely, it could easily be seen that they were no common servants.
I was in a ship that was wrecked, and the waves cast me ashore near a holy temple, where several young maidens performed the service.
" Twelve lovely maidens in white silk dresses, holding golden tulips in their hands, rode by her side on coal-black horses.
