maidy

Who ever heard of getting a prisoner loose in such an old-maidy way as that?

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 2003

Oh, I presume the name taken by itself is a good old-fashioned one, but in combination with McMurtry it has such an old-maidy, school-teachery sound that I have been compelled to live up to it.

The Camp Fire Girls at Sunrise Hill Margaret Vandercook

You can't sell a sweet-scented, prim old-maidy newspaper to enough people to pay for the z's in one font of type.

The Clarion Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

'Why, maidy '(he frequently, with unconscious irony, gave her this pet name),' the prettiest milker I've got in my dairy; you mustn't get so fagged as this at the first breath of summer weather, or we shall be finely put to for want of 'ee by dog-days, shan't we, Mr. Clare?'

Tess of the d'Urbervilles 1891

'And you, maidy Tess, you wasn't well a day or two ago -- this will make your head ache finely!

Tess of the d'Urbervilles 1891

'Go on, do ye, maidy Anne,' said Uncle Benjy, keeping down his tremblings by a great effort to half their natural extent.

The Trumpet-Major Thomas Hardy 1884

Who ever heard of getting a prisoner loose in such an old-maidy way as that?

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1884

You and maidy Anne must come in, if it be only for half-an-hour.

The Trumpet-Major Thomas Hardy 1884

Who ever heard of getting a prisoner loose in such an old-maidy way as that?

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 31 to 35 Mark Twain 1872

Who ever heard of getting a prisoner loose in such an old-maidy way as that?

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1872