Maiden Sentence Examples

The little ice maiden herself.

I suppose she's divorced and 'Shipton' is her maiden name.

The maiden crop he valued at £8, 12S.

Yes. I kept my maiden name because of my business—it's less confusing.

Mildred is the dearest and sweetest little maiden in the world.

Of us two, which is the stronger, the young maiden or the withered man?

Condla Caem son of Conn Cetchathach was carried in a boat of crystal by a fairy maiden to the land of youth, and among other mortals who went thither Bran, son of Febal, and Ossian are the most famous.

On the other hand, the Artemis of Arcadia, who is confused with the nymph Callisto, who, again, is said to have become a she-bear, and later a star, and the Brauronian Artemis, whose maiden ministers danced a bear-dance, are goddesses whose legend seems unnatural, .and is felt to need explanation.

Her birth from the head of Zeus is not explicitly alluded to in Homer., In Homer, Athene is a warlike maiden, the patron-goddess of wisdom and manly resolution.

He was beginning to doubt his superlative detecting skills when it dawned on him that she might be using a maiden name.

Much as I'd like to, I won't ask her if her mother's maiden name was Plotke, nor will I tell her daddy's bones may be taking a motor home trip up the west coast—or that his pinkie is in your jewel case.

Edith at first looked shocked, but almost at once, her face melted to a resigned look—a condemned maiden mounting the guillotine steps, Joan of Arc as the match ignited her pyre.

The worlds first jet airliner, the Comet, made its maiden flight in Britain.

Well-loved popular arias by Bach and Handel also rub shoulders with music from Tchaikovsky's The Snow Maiden and The Seasons.

Sadly, said maiden aunt may not share this opinion.

Are there maiden aunts or awkward uncles who would be offended by the content of your speech?

The merchant Maiden Hospital was founded in 1695 for the education of daughters of decayed merchant burgesses of Edinburgh.

Rarely get to maiden name is forwood have the chance and bravo's celebrity.

The nymph, you see, was a maiden, and like Artemis, she preferred to remain chaste.

Anon so Elisabet of childbed aros Marie þat maiden milde 280 0 Went hir hom wel stilleliche, sche Šede gret wiþ childe.

She was one goddess but manifested as the maiden, the mother and the old wise crone.

We're particularly pleased with the Group's strong cash generation and to announce our maiden dividend as a public company.

However, she looked a filly with a big future when making short work of her rivals in a Limerick maiden in May.

In Maiden Stakes races the form punters will be backing the Top Trainers " best filly " who finished 2nd last time.

Fresh flowers and a maiden's garland were also thrown into her grave.

The seven-year-old gelding easily won a maiden at the track last season before going on to take a good quality Buccleuch Men's Open.

Vincent is a widow gentlewoman living here aged 82. her maiden name was Story sister to D r.

In legend they are nine women, three triple goddesses ranging in age from maiden to mother to crone.

I'm willing to put money on next year's headliners being Rammstein, Iron Maiden and AC/DC.

A maiden heifer has not yet had a calf.

William married a Scottish maiden, but after his death all trace of her was lost by the family.

There could be no doubt that I had rescued the fair maiden in her time of crisis.

A striking 3-year-old chestnut colt by the French Guineas winner Vettori; proven after winning 5f maiden at Bath in October 2004.

In films the brilliant hero, the victor or the innocent maiden is seen charging upon a white steed.

What attracted the lovely young maiden to the prince?

A wicket maiden to Gough, who has gone for just one run in his first three overs.

He was the son of a painter-meister Epe whose wife's maiden name was Held.

In this ' Give me Ed... Till I'm Dead ' Tour, Iron Maiden continue the non-stop metal mayhem.

See the story of Maiden Castle and walk on roman mosaics in the atmospheric Victorian Hall.

The divided Maiden race is always difficult to assess early in the season and punters are advised to follow the market movers.

When searching for a birth or marriage, remember to use the maiden name for women.

Yeoh was teamed with blond American martial arts champion Cynthia Rothrock playing female " buddy " cops for that maiden action outing.

What you have to understand is that a maiden speech is an intensely personal thing to an MP.

The Dawkins Ray wasn't on track for as long as it should have been; first Mason, then Radford scored maiden podiums.

River Tigris took Division Two of the 2½ mile Maiden to become the first four-year-old to win a British point-to-point.

It describes a virtuous maiden who is put under a spell by an evil sorceress.

In her maiden speech, she advocated bringing down the voting age of women to twenty-one.

This 1411 ton steamship was wrecked on the 16th April 1874 on her maiden voyage.

The full name and surname, and maiden surname if the person who has died was a married woman.

On 16th February, 1870 she departed from London on her maiden voyage to Shanghai.

Through a hunter, Eabani and Gilgamesh are brought together, but instead of becoming rivals, they are joined in friendship. Eabani is induced by the snares of a maiden to abandon his life with the animals and to proceed to Erech, where Gilgamesh, who has been told in several dreams of the coming of Eabani, awaits him.

A female slave was still held incapable of the offence of adultery; but Justinian visited with death alike the rape of a slave or freedwoman and that of a free maiden.

The story of the voluntary sacrifice of the Attic maiden Aglauros on behalf of her country in time of war (commemorated by the ephebi taking the oath of loyalty to their country in her temple), and of the leap of the three sisters over the Acropolis rock (see Erechtheus), probably points to an old human sacrifice.

The second was called for by the preference which the common law gave to a distant collateral over the brother of the half-blood of the first purchaser; the fourth conferred an indefeasible title on adverse possession for twenty years (a term shortened by Lord Cairns in 1875 to twelve years); the fifth reduced the number of witnesses required by law to attest wills, and removed the vexatious distinction which existed in this respect between freeholds and copyholds; the last freed an innocent debtor from imprisonment only before final judgment (or on what was termed mesne process), but the principle stated by Campbell that only fraudulent debtors should be imprisoned was ultimately given effect to for England and Wales in 1869.1 In one of his most cherished objects, however, that of Land Registration, which formed the theme of his maiden speech in parliament, Campbell was doomed to disappointment.

Pepys was delighted with the playing of "pretty, witty Nell," but when he saw her as Florimel in Dryden's Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen, he wrote "so great a performance of a comical part was never, I believe, in the world before" and, "so done by Nell her merry part as cannot be better done in nature" (Diary, March 25, 1667).

Morgain herself has many traits in common with the Valkyrie; she is one of nine sisters, she can fly through the air as a bird (Swan maiden); she possesses a marvellous ointment (as does Hilde, the typical Valkyr).

Within a week of the opening of Parliament he bounded into fame by a sparkling maiden speech in a Tariff Reform debate - a speech conceived in a confident fighting spirit, calculated to cheer dejected partisans, and full of wit and epigram.

The Book of Esther, in the Bible, relates how a Jewish maiden, Esther, cousin and foster-daughter of Mordecai, was made his queen by the Persian king Ahasuerus (Xerxes) after he had divorced Vashti; next, how Esther and Mordecai frustrated Haman's endeavour to extirpate the Jews; how Haman, the grand-vizier, fell, and Mordecai succeeded him; how Esther obtained the king's permission for the Jews to destroy all who might attack them on the day which Haman had appointed by lot for their destruction; and lastly, how the feast of Purim (Lots ?) was instituted to commemorate their deliverance.

The maiden's gown was soft as satin and fell about her in ample folds, while dainty lace-like traceries trimmed the bodice and sleeves.

The little man looked at her closely and then took both the maiden's hands in his and shook them cordially.

The day marked the maiden voyage of the first roll-on roll-off ferry to serve the county, changing the lives of everyone involved.

You may opt to give your child your maiden name as his/her first name.

This could involve using a beloved grandparent's first name or the maiden name of the baby's mom.

Her family proudly shares the hyphenated last name Utt-Grubb, which is a combination of Kelly and Sam's "maiden" names.

There is a section of the report that contains all of your personal information, which should include your full name, including variations such as your maiden name or any aliases you may use at your places of employment.

A New Jersey woman may choose to go back to using her maiden name after a divorce.

Usually, a marriage record contains at least some basic information like the full names of the bride and groom (and probably the maiden name of the bride), and the date and location of where the marriage took place.

First, the full name (including the maiden name) of the bride and groom will be needed.

Her parents, Mathew Knowles and Tina Beyince Knowles (whose maiden name was the inspiration for her daughter's first name), recognized her talent early in life.

Because of the city's size, popularity, and connections with many print and news media sources, it also serves as a port during many maiden voyages.

Her maiden voyage is planned for December 1, 2009.

Carnival has plans to launch a sister ship, and its next great masterpiece of cruise showmanship, the Carnival Magic, is scheduled for its maiden voyage in June 2011.

The new vessel sailed its maiden voyage the same day.

The ship's maiden voyage departed Italy on March 5, 2007.

The dogs are given five initial races, which are referred to as maiden races.

This is when the dog has his or her maiden races, which are a test of the dogs racing potential.

If the dog does not "break maiden", he or she will be retired, and hopefully brought to an adoption center.

Ukok priestess mummy, nicknamed the Siberian Ice Maiden, was found on the steppes of eastern Russia.

Dianthus deltoides, also called Maiden Pinks, pictured above.

With selections from artists young, (The Faint, Hot Hot Heat, Ok Go) and old, (Iron Maiden, Def Leppard) there is a song for nearly every gamer.

You can also find additional information such as father's name, mother's maiden name, and place of birth by filling out Form SS-5 from the Social Security Administration.

Try searching for a married name or maiden name.

It's a good idea to look for a woman by both her maiden name and married name.

Always look for a woman under her maiden and married names, especially in the volunteer submissions.

While genealogists try to always use the maiden name for a woman, if that is unavailable they may list her under her married name.

Other information is often contained in the records as well, such as parent's names, birthplace, maiden name, and military service or fraternal organization membership.

The reports issued include marriage date, the bride's maiden name, the groom's name and the bride and groom's ages.

Your mother's maiden name is necessary for identification purposes.

Since birth certificates normally include the mother's maiden name, they are also invaluable tools to genealogists, who use them to track family trees.

The company has just debuted its maiden line in time for Summer 2007.

If you're giving a personalized Christmas gift to an unmarried woman, think twice before using a monogram that includes her maiden name.

Look at the pictures and costumes available at Moon Maiden Gothic Clothing to inspire you.

Trinity knots can also symbolize the pagan triad of "mother, maiden and crone" or "mind, body and spirit."

He knows how to romance and woo a love interest and enjoys the challenge of winning his fair maiden's heart.

Etain was a fairy maiden whose beauty was so great that the Faery King Midir fell in love with her at first sight.

One day she was spotted by another fairy king who recognized her for the fairy maiden she had once been.

Since the moon is viewed as maiden, mother and crone, the fairies are drawn to her light like lost children.

Another couple affiliated with love, symbolism and butterflies is the beautiful maiden named Wengu and her lover.

Hopefully, for your maiden voyage you have selected a nice quite place to get used to your car.

Costello, borrowing "Costello" from his mother's maiden name.

Born as an only child, it was in the outskirts of Stockholm, Sweden that Marten developed an interest in becoming a musician after being exposed to bands such as Kiss, Judas Priest and Iron Maiden.

Katy changed her sound, and she also took up her mother's maiden name of Perry to avoid any confusion between her and Kate Hudson.

They rechristened themselves as Paramore, a name taken from the maiden name of a friend's mom, and started hitting the regional touring circuit.

Anna, whose maiden name is Keller, caught a special about the Duggars called 14 Kids and Pregnant Again on Discovery Health and was instantly taken with the entire clan.

Explorers discover a giant ape on Skull Island, where natives keep him propitiated by the judicious sacrifice of a maiden or two once in a while.

In books III and IV of the poem Belphoebe represents "womanly married love" but in Book I, as Lucifera (maiden queen), brightly-lit the Court of Pride to mask the dungeon full of prisoners.

Sub Commander T'Pol was a member of Vulcan Science Authority assigned to monitor and assist the crew of the first Starship Enterprise on her maiden voyages.

Sub-Commander T'Pol was assigned by the Vulcan High Command to monitor and supervise the maiden voyages of Earth's fledgling Starfleet into space.

The easy-to follow instructions generate a Star Wars first name, last name and honorific name and title by using letters from your own name, or your mother's maiden name and place of birth.

Eowyn - The niece of Theoden, Eowyn is a shield maiden and longs to battle at her father's side, but Theoden tries to send her away for protection.

In fact, MySpace recently began to allow women to also list their maiden names, so that they can easily be found by their friends.

In 1761 Gibbon, at the age of twenty-four, after many delays, and with many flutterings of hope and fear, gave to the world, in French, his maiden publication, an Essai sur l'etude de la litterature, which he had composed two years before.

The maiden ate the fruit, and in due course a child was born to her, whom she named Aisin Gioro, or the Golden.

Spes is represented as a beautiful maiden in a long light robe, lifting up her skirt with her left hand, and carrying in her right a bud already closed or about to open.

The young tree is, in many cases, procured when it has been trained for two or three years in the nursery; but it is generally better to begin with a maiden plant - that is, a plant of the first year after it has been budded.

In support of this view he refers to Hesychius (Oi vcov yaXa) and a passage in Athenagoras (Legatio pro Christianis, 17), where it is by itself, may possibly be connected with 7raXXaKr ("maiden").

Aristodemus offered his own daughter, and when her lover, hoping to save her life, declared that she was no longer a maiden, he slew her with his own hand to prove the assertion false.

In April 1877 public attention was called to the distress of three maiden ladies, directly descended from Defoe, and bearing his name; and a crown pension of X75 a year was bestowed on each of them.

During the festival of Artemis at Delos, Acontius saw Cydippe, a well-born Athenian maiden of whom he was enamoured, sitting in the temple of the goddess.

Hardy's excellent work, Traite" de la taille des arbres fruitiers, will give a good idea how these dwarf trees are to be manipulated, a showing the first year's development from the maiden tree after being headed back, and b the form assumed a year or two later.

The maiden tree is headed down, and two shoots led away right and left.

For planting against walls, trees which have been trained for two years in the nursery are preferred, but maiden trees can be very successfully introduced, and by liberal treatment may be speedily got to a fruiting state.

He took his seat in the House of Commons as one of the members for Durham on 28th July 1843, and on 7th August delivered his maiden speech in support of a motion by Mr Ewart for reduction of import duties.

The mother, whose maiden name was Lloyd, is said to have been a woman of high character, charming in person and eminent for piety.

Her cult-titles -rrapeivos (or 7rais), TEXela and Xr7pa the "maiden," "wife," and "widow" (or "divorced") have been interpreted as symbolical of the earth in spring, summer, and winter; but they may well express the different conditions in the lives of her human worshippers.

Mikkel, priest of St Alban's Church in Odense, wrote three sacred poems, The Rose-Garland of Maiden Mary, The Creation and 1 Collected as Samling af gamle danske Love (5 vols., Copenhagen, 1821-1827).

After Donald Ban no Scottish sovereign bears a Gaelic Christian name save Malcolm the Maiden; and perhaps no later king knew Gaelic.

The anarchic weakness of the reign of Stephen enabled David to secure his hold of northern England to the Till, but the death of his gallant and gentle son Henry, in June 1152, left the succession to his son, Malcolm the Maiden, then a child of ten, and David's death (24th of May 1153) exposed Scotland to the dangers of a royal minority.

Malcolm the Maiden, before his early death in 1165, had put down the menacing power of Somerled, lord of the Isles, a chief apparently of mixed Celtic and Scandinavian blood, the founder of the great clan of Macdonald, whose chiefs, the lords of the Isles, were almost royal; Malcolm also subdued the Celts of Galloway, sometimes called Picts, but at this time Gaelic in speech.

Of these, Tayis Bank and The Murning Maiden are perhaps the best.

When Apollo and Poseidon became suitors for her hand, she swore to remain a maiden for ever; whereupon Zeus bestowed upon her the honour of presiding over all sacrifices.

On a Greek vase-painting the snake is the vehicle of the wrath of Athene, even as Chryse, another local " maiden," had a snake-guardian of a shrine which she sent against Philoctetes.'

In the course of this session Bacon married Alice Barnham " the alderman's daughter, an handsome maiden, to my liking," of whom he had written some years before to his cousin Cecil.

This is the beginning of the species-god, and implies a step of thought comparable to the production in language of general terms. These protecting spirits were free beings, having form and shape, but not individualized; while above them rose the higher deities like the forest-god Tapio and his maiden Hillervo, protectress of herds, or Ahto the water-god who gradually took the place of Vesi, the actual element originally conceived as itself divine, and ruled over the spirits of lakes and rivers, wells and springs.

On that occasion Castelar delivered his maiden speech, which at once placed him in the van of the advanced politicians of the reign of Queen Isabella.

His maiden speech was delivered in April 1736, in the debate on the congratulatory address to the king on the marriage of the prince of Wales.

A few months later he delivered his maiden speech in the House of Commons in defence of the expedition against Copenhagen, which he conceived to be justified by the known designs of Napoleon on the Danish court.

Becoming also tutor to the maiden, he used the unlimited power which he thus obtained over her for the purpose of seduction, though not without cherishing a real affection which she returned in unparalleled devotion.

His maiden speech, on the subvention to the king of Sardinia, was made on the 3rst of January 1794.

The Discourse on the Dissensions in Athens and Rome (September 1701), written to repel the tactics of the Tory commons in their attack on the Partition Treaties "without humour and without satire," and intended as a dissuasive from the pending impeachment of Somers, Orford, Halifax and Portland, received the honour, extraordinary for the maiden publication of a young politician, of being generally attributed to Somers himself or to Burnet, the latter of whom found a public disavowal necessary.

His father was Stephen Longfellow, a lawyer and United States congressman, and his mother, Zilpha Wadsworth, a descendant of John Alden and of "Priscilla, the Puritan maiden."

He is called the "Maiden," and died unmarried on the 9th of December 1165.

In works of art Hygieia is represented, together with Asclepius, as a maiden of benevolent appearance, wearing the chiton and giving food or drink to a serpent out of a dish.

All are assorted and mated to suitable rams. Most of the older ewes take the ram in September, but maiden ewes are kept back till October.

In another version, given at an earlier point of the same continuation, but apparently deriving from a later source, the Grail is borne in procession by a weeping maiden, and is called the "holy" Grail, but no details as to its history or character are given.

It is guarded by a body of chosen knights, or templars, and acts alike as a life and youth preserving talisman - no man may die within eight days of beholding it, and the maiden who bears it retains perennial youth - and an oracle choosing its own servants, and indicating whom the Grail king shall wed.

A number of young girls, between five and ten years of age, wearing a bear-skin (afterwards a saffron-coloured robe) danced a bear-dance, called apKTEia, the girls themselves being called ecpKToc. In one account, a maiden was ordered to be sacrificed to the bear Artemis, but a certain man who had a goat called it his daughter and offered it up in secret, just as at Munychium a fawn dressed up as a girl was sacrificed to the goddess.

He made his maiden speech in the House of Commons on the 4th of August 1876, on Lord Sandon's Education Bill.

Yes. I kept my maiden name because of my business—it's less confusing.

She was prattling on about the planet Zzz where some arch villain who closely resembled Jerome Shipton, was to meet his due while climbing an icy cliff, in hot pursuit of a fair maiden whom Dean took to be a greatly slimmed down version of the author.

In a dream, a man maintains his eternal youth by devouring the flesh of a maiden once every year.

A fair pretty maiden I chanced to meet, And I asked her if she would walk with me.

His mother's maiden name was Mary Anne ORPIN, born in Cheltenham.

The maiden voyage may offer special discounts.

Edith at first looked shocked, but almost at once, her face melted to a resigned look—a condemned maiden mounting the guillotine steps, Joan of Arc as the match ignited her pyre.

Under her native name, Britomartis (= the sweet maiden) or Dictynna, she approaches Artemis and Leto, again associated with an infant god, and this Cretan virgin goddess was worshipped in Aegina under the name of Aphaea.

His mother's maiden name was Alice Monins, and a John Monins married Cranmer's sister Jane, but no definite relationship between the two archbishops has been traced.

Even earlier than Heriot's hospital was the Merchant Maiden hospital, dating from 1605, which gave to the daughters of merchants similar advantages to those which Heriot's secured for burgesses' sons.

In 1738 George Watson's hospital for boys was founded; then followed the Trades' Maiden hospital for burgesses' daughters, John Watson's, Daniel Stewart's, the Orphans', Gillespie's,' Donaldson's 2 hospitals, and other institutions founded by successful merchants of the city, in which poor children of various classes were lodged, boarded and educated.

Although long resident in Bagdad he devoted much of his poetry to the praise of Aleppo, and much of his love-poetry is dedicated to Alwa, a maiden of that city.

This mollified Jim a little, and after some thought the green maiden decided to give the cab-horse a room in the palace, such a big building having many rooms that were seldom in use.

Much as I'd like to, I won't ask her if her mother's maiden name was Plotke, nor will I tell her daddy's bones may be taking a motor home trip up the west coast—or that his pinkie is in your jewel case.

He took his place, as a matter of course, among the Conservatives, and delivered his maiden speech in May 1850 on the sugar duties.

Perhaps the most celebrated Polish authoress was Klementina Hoffmann, whose maiden name was Tanska, born at Warsaw in 1798.

Jellia at once departed on the errand, and she was gone so long that they had almost forgotten her mission when the green robed maiden returned with a troubled face.

And on its pages I saw a beautiful representation of a maiden in transparent garments and with a transparent body, flying up to the clouds.

Swellendam is one of the older Dutch settlements in the Cape, dating from 1745, and was named after Hendrik Swellengrebel (then governor of the Cape) and his wife, whose maiden name was Damme.

Most of the inhabitants continued heathens until, according to the legend, Salsa, a Christian maiden, threw the head of their serpent idol into the sea, whereupon the enraged populace stoned her to death.

The discordance of their results incited Laplace to a searching examination of the whole subject of planetary perturbations, and his maiden effort was rewarded with a discovery which constituted, when developed and completely demonstrated by his own further labours and those of his illustrious rival Lagrange, the most important advance made in physical astronomy since the time of Newton.

When this devout maiden began to denounce the ungodly cardinal who was allied with heretics, her confessor - in Richelieu's service - succeeded in inducing her to become a nun.

His maiden speech was youthfully fluent and dogmatic; but on its conclusion the orator was reminded with many compliments, by an honourable member, that he wanted six weeks of his majority, and consequently that he was amenable to a fine of £50o for speaking in the House.

His maiden speech was delivered on the 3rd of June in reply to what was almost a personal challenge.

The questions had to be given in writing, and the responses were uttered by the Pythian priestess, in early times a maiden, later a woman over fifty attired as a maiden.

Amid boxes, lamps, and glassware of every description sat the old man, atop a trunk, snuggled between the two maiden ladies from Indiana.

The maiden name of the poet's mother was Mary Arden, and this name, that of an ancient county family, survives in the district north-west of Stratford, the Forest of Arden, though the true forest character is long lost.

They were famous in the ancient world for their maiden goddess, identified by the Greeks with Artemis Tauropolos or Iphigeneia, whom the goddess was said to have brought to her shrine at the moment when she was to have been sacrificed at Aulis.

Orestes sought his sister, and almost fell a victim to the Tauric custom of sacrificing to the maiden shipwrecked strangers, a real custom which was the ground of the whole myth.

The birds with their plumage and their notes are in harmony with the flowers, but what youth or maiden conspires with the wild luxuriant beauty of Nature?

According to some accounts the sacrifice was completed, according to others Artemis carried away the maiden to be her priestess in the Tauric Chersonese [[[Crimea]]] and substituted for her a hind.

Remember this, Princess, I hold to the principle that a maiden has a full right to choose.

Such were Dimmler the musician and his wife, Vogel the dancing master and his family, Belova, an old maiden lady, an inmate of the house, and many others such as Petya's tutors, the girls' former governess, and other people who simply found it preferable and more advantageous to live in the count's house than at home.

At first I couldn't locate her because she was going under her maiden name, Radisson.

She hardly rivalled Lady Jane Grey as the ideal Puritan maiden, but she swam with the stream, and was regarded as a foil to her stubborn Catholic sister.

After 12 to 15 years the heads become "tired," and should be grubbed up. The first year's crop, known as the "maiden" crop, is of small value but should be cut and the ensuing years of maturity will yield crops of about 130 bolts, green, per acre, worth £9, 15s.

But lo! the lovely maiden only smiles more sweetly, and breathes upon the icy battlements of her enemies, and in a moment they vanish, and the glad Earth gives her a royal welcome.

Fetching water clear and sweet, Stop, dear maiden, I entreat--

Nor was the lady of Gawain's love a mortal maiden, but the queen of the other-world.

It is like a beautiful maiden, who always lived in a palace, surrounded by a magnificent court; while the "Iliad" is like a splendid youth, who has had the earth for his playground.

And I seemed to know that this maiden was nothing else than a representation of the Song of Songs.

The granite block from which she is said to have viewed the combat is still called the Queen's Chair or the Maiden Stone.

But three years later this imperious leader was checked by the heroic resistance of the " Maiden " fortress of Magdeburg; though two years later still she lost her reputation, and suffered unspeakable horrors at the hands of Tilly's lawless and unlicensed soldiery.

Of course, he wouldn't know her maiden name was Poluck.

The " true mother of his mind as well as of his health " was a maiden aunt - Catherine Porten by name - with respect to whom he expresses himself in language of the most grateful remembrance.

On his marriage in 1823 with Elizabeth, daughter of Dawson Turner of Great Yarmouth, he had become a Christian, and had changed his name to Palgrave, the maiden name of his wife's mother.