(15 quotes found)
“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
“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 .”
“We never even saw the damsel in distress. ... We would have stopped because we are superheroes. As a matter of fact, we would have lost the race just to save her. We're going back now. Just tell us where she is.”
Kevin Cross
“We view this as a fairy tale ... a story about damsels who have to fight off the dragons in their lives.”
Chris Willard