“And he took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Talitha cumi; which is, being interpreted, Damsel, I say unto thee, arise.”
Bible
“What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?”
Nikita Khrushchev
“Fairy damsels met in forest wide / By knights of Logres, or of Lyones, / Lancelot or Pelleas, or Pellenore.”
John Milton
“The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; amongst them were the damsels playing with tumbrels.”
“I just don't want to be the damsel in distress. I'll scream on the balcony, but you've got to let me do a little action here.”
Kirsten Dunst
“He who takes ,to wife a marriageable damsel, shall not pay any nuptial fee to her father, for the ,latter will lose his dominion over her in consequence of his preventing ,the legitimate result of the appearance of her enemies.”
Guru Nanak
“A son whom a damsel secretly bears in the house of her father, one shall name the son of an unmarried damsel and declare such offspring of an unmarried girl ,to belong to him who weds her ,afterwards .”
