Sentences with phrase «young maidens on»

Nor would a bridegroom have entered a room alone with five wise, and presumably attractive, young maidens on the night of his wedding.

Not exact matches

More than two thousand people had already arrived, some from a distance of forty to fifty miles; old gray - bearded pioneers, with their wives, in ox - wagons; young men, profuse in the matter of yellow - topped boots and jingling spurs, on horseback; fair maidens in calico, curls, and pearl - powder, some on horseback, others in wagons and buggies.

You are rolling along the vaudeville era and suddenly you find yourself on stage with a hypnotist painting a mustache on a young maiden.

In 2012, Emily played a young maiden and John her minstrel husband in a skit called Movie: The Movie, and last year, they starred as themselves in a sketch centred on The Kimmel School of Perfect Acting, in which comedian Jimmy instructed the two to act as if they were not married, a role playing exercise a «sad» Emily justified as a «sacrifice» for art.

In this historical steampunk folktale, young William Everett is traveling across Canada on the maiden voyage of The Boundless.

For most of the game, the young Celtic warrior maiden is the only character we see, so on her shoulders rests everything else that is to come in the game.

It's a great series of fighting games stocked with wonderfully animated monsters, from a karate werewolf to a mercenary Red Riding Hood to a vampire lord who transforms every character on the roster into a biteable young maiden.

The Invention of Drawing refers to an Ancient Greek story by Pliny the Elder about a young maiden who invents drawing by tracing the outline of her lover's shadow before he leaves on a long journey.

Worth mentioning, too, is the fact that women would sometimes change their names, assuming male names or using only their initials in hopes of having their work taken seriously, or would have their work lost if they signed it with their maiden name, only to take on their husband's name when they married, often at very young ages.