The gods dress Thor as a bride, and Loki states that he will go with Thor as his maid, and that the two shall drive to Jötunheimr together.

There shall not a maid be married but she shall pay to me her maidenhead ere they have it.

In biblical times, because unmarried females who lost their virginity had also lost much of their value as marriage prospects, the Old Testament Book of Exodus specifies that the seducer must marry his victim or pay her father to compensate him for his loss of the marriage price: " And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.

The official declaration of 19 August 1945 stated that " Through the sacrifice of thousands of ' Okichis ' of the Shōwa era, we shall construct a dike to hold back the mad frenzy of the occupation troops and cultivate and preserve the purity of our race long into the future ..." Okichi was the name of a maid of Townsend Harris, the first American consulate in Japan from 1856 to 1861, and who, according to legend, was pressured into an amorous relationship with Harris, only to be ostracized following his departure.

# No man shall court a maid in person, or by letter, without first obtaining consent of her parents: £ 5 penalty for the first offence ; £ 10 for the second ; and, for the third, imprisonment during the pleasure of the Court.

" Now take me up behind you fair maid for to ride ",

When her maid tried to wake Venetia on the morning of May 1 for her customary morning horseback ride, she found Venetia dead in the same position in which she had left her the night before.

He was asking had it been she who left the love note in his sheets ( she also served as maid ) when he saw the Grafin followed by a stately blond girl approaching his table.

Or you could hope the parachute wouldn't open just so you could say you saw it not open, not because you meant any harm to Starkey Poe in his suit of red underwear, but mainly because you were tired of being an old maid -- a thing which cannot admit when it thinks it might be pregnant, but must stand the dizzy feeling all alone and go on like everything is all right instead of being able to say to somebody in a normal voice: `` I think I'm pregnant ''.

" Esther 2: 7 And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful ; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.

Sigrún has her maid wait for him by the mound the next night, but when she arrives at dawn, she finds that he has not returned.

In her early novel Dawn O ' Hara, the title character's aunt is said to have remarked, " Being an old maid was a great deal like death by drowning-a really delightful sensation when you ceased struggling.

' speech when deciding whether or not to rape his Jewish maid.

Joan Collins wrote that when she rejected his on-set advances, he embarked on a series of liaisons with other women including an elderly black maid who, according to Collins, was " almost toothless ".

She may have been a maid of honour to Margaret of Anjou, Queen of Henry VI in 1445, when she was about eight years of age.

His fellow students recall that the last was where he displayed his greatest talent, and apparently this was not an entirely academic pursuit for the teenager: when not painting nudes, he was occupied with seducing the household maid.

The film also touches on black-on-black racism when John is taken to task by his father and the household maid Tillie ( Isabel Sanford ) for his perceived presumption.

The city's inhabitants have continued to remain faithful and grateful to her to this day, calling her " la pucelle d ' Orléans " ( the maid of Orléans ), offering her a middle-class house in the city, and contributing to her ransom when she was taken prisoner ( though this ransom was sequestered by Charles VII and Joan was only 19 when she was burned at the stake on 30 May 1431 in the city of Rouen ).

The film is split into two chapters, the first called " Paradise " depicts the lives of two lovers on a South Seas island until they are forced to escape the island when the girl is chosen as a holy maid to the gods.

Jane was staying with Grace when she answered a newspaper ad for a job and thus became a maid on the royal staff.

During the French Revolution, when the Palace of Versailles was stormed by revolutionaries in 1789, Marie Antoinette instructed her maid or a lady-in-waiting to take her prized possessions and flee.

Rhun sat down to have dinner with the disguised maid, and when she fell asleep he cut off a finger of hers that wore Elphin ’ s signet ring.

" Lovitz first appeared on " Our Fiftieth Episode " when Bill meets him in a mental ward he was assigned to after resisting arrest due to an altercation with police for arguing with a meter maid.

After Dhritarashtra's birth, when Satyavati requested Vyasa to visit Ambika for the second time, she dared not go and sent her maid instead.

In mourning, 17 year-old O ' Brien forgot about the maid and the Oscar until several months later when she tried to contact her, only to find that the maid had moved and had left no forwarding address.

He recovers his senses only when Oriana sends her maid to retrieve him.

This results in a kiss that is interrupted by Lady Barbara's maid Hebe — when she is sent away, the spell is broken, and Hornblower, engaging in his typical, self-loathing and second-guessing behavior, refuses to give in to his feelings again.

Martha Washington was upset when her lady's maid Oney Judge, a " dower " slave, escaped in 1796 from the Philadelphia household during Washington's second term.

However, he is quite upset when his son treats Kate as a maid.

Jack attempts to display vampire like powers by poisoning Ferguson's wife's maid with a substance apparently obtained from Stockton which causes fever and hallucinations.

Finally, he sees himself becoming a monster, and by a fortuitous stroke of lightning his powers are transferred to Dorita, the voodoo-practicing maid ( Nell Carter ).

Tyro exposed her sons on a mountain to die, but they were found by a herdsman who raised them as his own, as one story goes, or they were raised by a maid.

Antonio escapes with their eldest son, but the Duchess, her maid, and her two younger children are returned to Malfi and, under instructions from Ferdinand, die at the hands of Bosola's executioners.

* The chorus of The Kingston Trio's " Take Her Out of Pity " from their 1961 album Close-Up ( The Kingston Trio album ) is " Come a landsman, a pinsman, a tinker or a tailor ; a doctor, a lawyer, a soldier or a sailor ; a rich man, a poor man, a fool or a witty ; don't let her die an old maid, but take her out of pity.

The disappearance caused his family to assign a full-time maid to keeping an eye on the boy.

The people who believe and retell the legend have apparently never troubled to read the trial testimony and do not know that the maid changed her testimony on several key points, always to the detriment of Lizzie.

She has a maid called Maria who prevents the public adoration from becoming too much of a burden on her employer, but does nothing to prevent her from becoming too much of a burden on others.

They focused on the gender system of early modern England, pointing to the common trinity of maid, wife, or widow, with whores alone outside of the stereotype.

Later he prevented his maid from violently expelling baby weasels from his house, on the basis that " It is written: ' His Mercy is upon all his works.

Thiessen served as maid of honor at 90210 co-star and best friend Jennie Garth's wedding to actor Peter Facinelli, with whom she co-starred on Fastlane.

Cramer was found dead by a maid in his bathroom on the morning of March 14 with a bullet wound to the head.

Rabanus states that Joseph of Arimathea was sent to Britain, and he goes on to detail who travelled with him as far as France, claiming that he was accompanied by " the two Bethany sisters, Mary and Martha, Lazarus ( who was raised from the dead ), St. Eutropius, St. Salome, St. Cleon, St. Saturnius, St. Mary Magdalen, Marcella ( the maid of the Bethany sisters ), St. Maxium or Maximin, St.

They met on the film shoot of Rancho Deluxe, which was filmed on a ranch where Geston was working as a maid.

Assisted by such loyal supporters as the pilot Donald Macleod, a MacGillechaluim of Raasay, Colonel Con O ' Neill, a Clanaboy O ' Neill Prince of the O ' Neill_dynasty and Flora MacDonald, who helped him escape pursuers on the Isle of Skye by taking him in a small boat disguised as her Irish maid, " Betty Burke ," he evaded capture and left the country aboard the French frigate L ' Heureux, arriving back in France in September.

During her early years on stage, she fought against being typecast as a maid, and received critical acclaim on Broadway in the production of The Barker ( 1927 ), playing a carnival snake charmer.

Naughty Marietta is a 1935 film based on the operetta Naughty Marietta by Victor Herbert: Jeanette MacDonald stars as a vivacious Princess who trades places with her maid Marietta in order to avoid an arranged marriage.

* The statue Woman and maid in the style of Achilles Painter, white-ground and black-figure decoration on a lekythos, with additional painting in tempera, starts being made ( finished about ten years later ).

After the party, she goes home but on the same night, undetected by Kathy, her maid, goes back to Williams's apartment ( Myrna, his fiancée, does not live there ) and shoots him in the stomach using a silencer.

During this period, Oswald wrote many songs of an erotic nature-the most famous being " Ain Graserin " ( KL 76 ) about a bathing maid, whose " frizzy hair " between her legs leads a man to rape her on the spot.

The last victims, Maria, Anastasia and the maid Demidova, were on the floor beneath the room's one window.