"Young woman" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... You are, let us pretend, walking in the park. You come upon two benches arranged as shown in the above diagram. Would you know which bench it would be proper to sit on if you are (1) a young man just out of college—(2) a rather homely young woman? To avoid embarrassment look this ...
— Perfect Behavior - A Guide for Ladies and Gentlemen in all Social Crises • Donald Ogden Stewart
... which lay in the middle of the road, and then she stopped and stood still. I saw that she was hurt, but I could not help a sort of inward smile. "It is the old way of the world," I thought. "Would the Fates have made that young woman fall from her bicycle if there had been two men coming along on ...
— A Bicycle of Cathay • Frank R. Stockton
... Bollene, accused of being a counter-revolutionist; so lame and infirm, that her executioners were forced to carry her to the scaffold. Madame d'Ozanne, Marquise de Torignan, aged ninety-one, and her grand-daughter, a lovely young woman of twenty-two, perished in the same massacre. The personal beauty of the latter, which was much celebrated in the neighbourhood, had interested one of the brigands of Orange in her fate, who promised to exert his influence with the council of ...
— Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone - Made During the Year 1819 • John Hughes
... remarkably foolish young woman. They never named Rem. People so happy, do not remember the bringer of sorrow. He has been shut out— in the darkness and cold. But I heard from Madame Van Heemskirk why Cornelia and that delightful young man were not married two years ago. I am ashamed of Rem. I can never forgive ...
— The Maid of Maiden Lane • Amelia E. Barr
... "So," said the young woman, addressing her step-mother, as she entered, "you're come back at last, an' a purty time ...
— The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine • William Carleton
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