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«I don't have a bank account, because I don't know my mother's maiden name»
Author: Paula Poundstone (Comic) | Keywords: bank account, maiden
«I've banged my head quite a bit. I liked Iron Maiden, Ozzy, AC/DC. And of course, Ratt and Poison.»
Author: Cameron Diaz (Actress) | About: Music | Keywords: banged, iron maiden, maiden, quite a
«REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; as an elderly maiden's hand in marriage, to a rich and handsome suitor; a valuable franchise to a rich corporation, by an alderman; absolution to an impenitent king, by a priest, and so forth. Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative and the refusal feminine. The last is called by some casuists the refusal assentive.»
«GORGON, n.The Gorgon was a maiden bold Who turned to stone the Greeks of old That looked upon her awful brow. We dig them out of ruins now, And swear that workmanship so bad Proves all the ancient sculptors mad.»
«Now when every maid's turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with other things for the purifying of the women;) / Then thus came every maiden unto the king; whatsoever she desired was given her to go with her out of the house of the women unto the king's house.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: King Ahasuerus, maid, maiden
«Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means»
Author: D.H. Lawrence (Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Teenage | Keywords: maiden, teen, teens
«Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.»
«No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.»
«Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant ---Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword.»
«Have you no modesty, no maiden shame,No touch of bashfulness?»

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