(15 quotes found)
“Fairy damsels met in forest wide / By knights of Logres, or of Lyones, / Lancelot or Pelleas, or Pellenore.”
John Milton
“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
“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
“The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; amongst them were the damsels playing with tumbrels.”
Bible
“And the damsel was very fair, and cherished the king, and ministered to him: but the king knew her not.”
“And when he was come in, he saith unto them, Why make ye this ado, and weep? the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth.”
“And as Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a damsel came to hearken, named Rhoda.”
“And the damsel ran, and told them of her mother's house these things.”
“Then said Boaz unto his servant that was set over the reapers, Whose damsel is this? / And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said, It is the Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab: / And she said, I pray you, let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves: so she came, and hath continued even from the morning until now, that she tarried a little in the house.”
“And Abigail hasted, and arose and rode upon an ass, with five damsels of hers that went after her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.”
