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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Maid
 
The spotless maid is like the blooming rose
Which on its native stem unsullied grows.
            —Ariosto		  1
Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare,
And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.
            —Lord Byron		  2
Maids are like contentment in this life,
Which all the world have sought, but none enjoy’d.
            —Sir John Davies		  3
  A maiden is like a half-blown damask rose, fair as a dream and full of the sweet fragrance of the purity of dawning womanhood.
            —Annie E. Lancaster		  4
 
 
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