Citations:maid-child

Noun: "alternate spelling of maid child"

 * 1609 — William Shakespeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Act V, Scene III:
 * At sea in childbed died she, but brought forth
 * A maid-child call’d Marina; who, O goddess,
 * 1865 — George MacDonald, Alec Forbes of Howglen, Bernard Tauchnitz (1865), page 89:
 * Mrs. Forbes's eyes were instantly fixed on her with mild astonishment, and something of a mother's tenderness awoke in her heart toward the little maid-child.
 * 1884 — Robert Collver, The Simple Truth, Lee and Shepard, Publishers (1884), page 29:
 * here is the principle at the very outset of our endeavor to make a man out of our man-child, and a woman out of our maid-child : they are tender, we must lead on softly.
 * 1990 — Mary A. Turzillo, "Get with Child a Mandrake", Weird Tales, Spring 1990:
 * "I will get a son?"
 * "A maid-child, if good spirits will it.
 * 2000 — Marion Zimmer Bradley & Diana L. Paxson, Priestess of Avalon, Roc (2008), ISBN 9780451462398, unnumbered page:
 * "Say then, Druid, what fate the stars foretell for the maid-child born in this hour?"