Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypres let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath; I am slain by a fair cruel maid.
No sooner does a divine gift reveal itself in youth or maid than its market value becomes the decisive consideration, and the poor young creatures are offered for sale, as we might sell angels who had strayed among us.
Since all the maids are good and lovable, from whence come the bad wives?
Pick up your clothes. I am not your maid. How do I know this? A maid cannot kill you with a tube sock. I can.
I'm going to have to take one of my bedrooms and gut it out and make it into a big closet, because now I'm starting to put sneakers in the pantry. Even my maids are like, "No more, please! It's too much!"
Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
The maid screamed. The Queen gasped. Sophie waved.
Good housewives all the winter's rage despise, Defended by the riding-hood's disguise; Or, underneath the umbrella's oily shade, Safe through the wet on clinking pattens tread, Let Persian dames the unbrella's ribs display, To guard their beauties from the sunny ray; Or sweating slaves support the shady load, When eastern monarchs show their state abroad; Britain in winter only knows its aid, To guard from chilling showers the walking maid.
Fly not yet; 't is just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower That scorns the eye of vulgar light, Begins to bloom for sons of night And maids who love the moon.
Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
Welcome, maids of honor, You doe bring In the spring, And wait upon her.
children had no place in love affairs. Children ought to be born to widows and old maids.
Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.
RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids.
The blushing beauties of a modest maid.
If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.
To many a youth and many a maid, dancing in the chequer'd shade.
(About a cookbook. . . ) - What about this one? Maids of Honor? - Weeelll, they starts OUT as Maids of Honor. . . but they ends up Tarts.
The coyest maids make the fondest wives.
When I opened up in "Gaslight," for instance, playing that narky maid, that all came about from my experience and my training up to that point, and so nothing was wasted.
