maidenly

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Maidenly ladies, prim and starched, in one or two instances called upon the Doctor—the two children meanwhile being in the graveyard at play—to give him Christian advice as to the management of his charge.

From Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Maidenly reserve, however, forbade even a hint of what might seem to others a conceited and indelicate surmise.

From The Earth Trembled by Roe, Edward Payson

"Maidenly?" she repeated, and broke into such a mockery of laughter that I felt my cheeks indeed burn with a painful effusion and turning abruptly, I walked away in high dudgeon.

From Peregrine's Progress by Farnol, Jeffery

Maidenly fright and consternation cannot account rationally for such behavior; one sees that she holds her tongue because to set it in motion would be dramaturgically disastrous.

From The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Thomas, Calvin

Maidenly niceness not her motive for the distance she has kept him at.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 4 by Richardson, Samuel