Pronunciation of the English word maidens.
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1. | Her very frowns are fairer far than smiles of other maidens are. | |
2. | Then, this child of fourteen years learned, as in a homework, that which we hide to maidens until their wedding night. She flipped through the drawings of the anatomy book, those superb drawings of a bloody reality. She paused upon each organ, understanding the most secret of them, those upon which is built the shame of men and women. | |
3. | The Marsh Woman is related to the elf maidens, who are well-known, for songs are sung and pictures painted about them. | |
4. | I have more than once seen, from the depths of a dark cave, the young maidens of Kole or Oëlmoe wash their bare feet in the water of the streams, singing softly. | |
5. | Do the dancing maidens sleep, or are they dead? The scent of the flower says that they are corpses. The evening bell tolls their knell. | |
6. | The young king let it be known that he intended to marry, and commanded all the maidens in the kingdom to come to a feast, so that he might choose a wife from among them. | |
7. | Once upon a time there dwelt in the land of Erin a young man who was seeking a wife, and of all the maidens round about none pleased him as well as the only daughter of a farmer. | |
8. | Within are fifty maidens, charged with care / to dress the food, and nurse the flames divine. / A hundred more, and youths like-aged, prepare / to load the tables and arrange the wine. | |
9. | We breach the walls, and ope the town inside. / All set to work, and to the feet below / fix wheels, and hempen ropes around the neck they throw. / Mounting the walls, the monster moves along, / teeming with arms. Boys, maidens joy around / to touch the ropes, and raise the festive song. | |
10. | The bells now began to ring in the great white building and a number of young maidens came into the garden. |