damsel
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Above us swallows dart through the air, Graeme takes a picture of a damsel fly and the brook to our side continues to babble.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2024
She’s a talented player who’s learning the ropes, not a damsel in distress.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2024
The minute Furiosa starts gnawing on her captor’s fuel line, though, Miller makes it clear that this wee captive is no damsel in distress.
From New York Times ● May 15, 2024
But also, it has a lot of humor surrounding it, because it's that damsel in distress kind of character.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2023
This was a full-blown, very plump damsel, fair as waxwork, with handsome and regular features, languishing blue eyes, and ringleted yellow hair.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
The idea that the sheriff is a gentle helper of damsels in distress, rather than some sort of code enforcer.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2024
None of my family are damsels in distress.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 17, 2023
Weighted down by the responsibilities of matrimony, they reveal their existential hang-up: an indomitable fairy-tale urge to find other damsels to save.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2023
"I got myself into action films because I didn't believe that women were damsels in distress. Their stories need to be told correctly," Yeoh says.
From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2023
A dragon killer, he was, a rescuer of damsels, and his small sins seemed so great to him that he felt unfit and unseemly.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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