Meanings of puritan maiden in английском

The little Puritan maiden was not a reasoner, but a creature of impressions and swift intuitions.

Oh, mother dear, there's no use of your trying to make a prim Puritan maiden of me.

'Is it not best to have faith?' said the Puritan maiden.

She made no further allusion to the Puritan maiden-thatlittle episode had, so it appeared, completely escaped her memory.

"I see a Puritan maiden, seated at a spinning wheel," she commenced.

Is she a Puritan maiden?

"Surely you, in common with all of us, admire the Puritan maiden, Norman?"

Thanksgiving Day was represented by Dora, dressed as a Puritan maiden, carrying a basket of apples and a sheaf of wheat.

"Why, my dear," she said, "you are not the little Puritan maiden any longer.

But as for me, nothing could be more opposite in character than Janet Foster the Puritan maiden, and Beatrix Pendleton the wild huntress.

That which a Puritan maiden could do, and all posterity sing her praises for, surely I- awomanof the world-maydo without blame.

The very thought of such an incorrigible witch as you palming yourself off as a demure Puritan maiden is the climax of comical absurdity.

"I also received some sweet flattery intended for the pretty little Puritan maiden, and learned some bitter truths about myself," answered Sybil.

"I want to know if you remember the beautiful story of Priscilla, the Puritan maiden," she said, in a tremulous voice-theloveliest maiden of Plymouth?"