...in Scotland also, as well as the English, against ' whistling maidens and crowing hens,' they say, . Maidens should be mild and meek, Swift to hear, and slow to speak; which would be requiring an absolute impossihility, if maidens can speak French, Italian, Spanish,...

...labourers were taken away, and one man was turned off by the farmer, for refusing to remove his child. Now that the war was carried on so openly, Mr. Mohun...and meek, Swift to hear, and slow to speak." Miss Western had been much interested by what she heard respecting Mrs. Eden, and gladly discovered that...

...ladies, who entered Prellsthorpe Park very much tired with their long morning's work. CHAPTER XV. " MAIDENS SHOULD BE MILD AND MEEK, SWIFT TO HEAR, AND SLOW TO SPEAK." AS the party rode through Prellsthorpe Park up to the house, the ladies clustered round Grel. " Grel,...

... MAIDENHOOD. MAIDENHOOD. BY MRS. SARA ANNA MARSH, AUTHOB OF "CHRONICLES OF DARTMOOR," &c., &c. " Maidens should be mild and meek. Swift to hear and slow to apeak.'' IN THREE VOLUMES, VOL. I. LONDON: HURST AND BLACKETT, PUBLISHERS, SUCCESSORS TO HENRY COLBURN,...

...be expected afterwards, Maidens should be mim till they're married ; which is found, more generally, Maidens should be mild and meek, Swift to hear, and slow to speak. The Italians have a singular manner of classification, long and lazy, Little and loud, Fair and foolish,...

...mill, where '—and she folded her hands and cast down her eyes with a prim look of propriety— ' " Maidens should be mild and meek, Swift to hear and slow to speak." ' After which, flinging open the gate, she gave Eve a sudden push which sent her forward with a most...

...mill, where'—and she folded her hands and cast down her eyes with a prim look of propriety— ' " Maidens should be mild and meek, Swift to hear and slow to speak." ' After which, flinging open the gate, she gave Eve a sudden push which sent her forward with a most...

...and take. Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything. Somerset. Maidens should be mild and meek : swift to hear, and slow to speak. Maids should be seen and not heard. The Maids Complaint against the Batchelort, 1675, p. 3, where it...

...Ds. 153. 2Räbфen 170. He is fool that kisses the maid when he can kiss the mistress. Ho. 15. — Maidens should be mild and meek, Swift to hear and slow to speak. B. — A Norfolk woman, where maids are mothers, and mothers are maids. R. Brome' s Engl. Moor. Ш....

...simply an unaffected and affectionate girl, perhaps not quite answering to the old adage that : — ' Maidens should be mild and meek, Swift to hear, and slow to speak,' but more than attaining the ideal of any reasonable man. 'Mild and meek,' she certainly was not, in...