damsel
Example Sentences
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On the fifth day he covered the whole damozel with one more coating of scorn.
From Time Magazine Archive
But then the damozel Blanche opened the door and bade me go in while she abode still without; so I entered, when I had put aside p. 89the heavy silken hangings that filled the doorway.
From The World of Romance being Contributions to The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine, 1856 by Morris, William
Yes, "the fairest daughter of Eve the fair" was indeed your unknown damozel; but how little the Modeste of to-day resembles her of that long past era!
From Modeste Mignon by Balzac, Honoré de
And it felt for all the world like sitting on the brink of Heaven, like a blessed damozel the second, watching a sister-soul coming up to join you in your beatitude.
From The Prairie Mother by Becher, Arthur E.
“That was a song of joy because a beautiful damozel approached with bread for the hungry.”
From The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp by Stokes, Katherine
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