Lexicographical Neighbors of Damoisels
Literary usage of Damoisels
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Henry Augustin Beers (1901)
"... And, shimmering soft like damoisels, The angels swarm in glimmering shoals,
This reads, indeed, hardly less like a travesty than the well-known verses ..."
2. Victorian Poets by Edmund Clarence ( Stedman (1901)
"... And, shimmering soft like damoisels, The angels swarm in glimmering shoals,
And pin them to their ..."
3. The History of France from the Earliest Times to 1848 by Robert Black, Witt (Henriette Elizabeth), Guizot (François) (1884)
"The good knight, half-weeping to see so much sweetness and humility in those two
fair girls, made answer, ' Dear damoisels, you have done what I ought to do ..."
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