2 Sentences With "old maidish"

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Still S.C. > may annoy our sisterhood with her old maidish complaints & reproaches. She > is proud & poor—having been rich! Poor S.C.! Nonetheless, he generally > opposed freeing the slaves, and believed that slavery and union could co- > exist if only partisan political feeling could be reduced.
Once again, Smith provided admirable support for Winnington-Ingram whose powers were waning and who did not resign until 1939 when he was in his eighties. The new Bishop of London was Geoffrey Fisher who proposed Smith for the vacant see at Leicester. Although Lang regarded Smith as 'old maidish', he supported Smith's candidature, and Smith was appointed to Leicester in 1940.TNA PREM5/289 Smith enjoyed a reputation in Leicester as a 'saintly man',Lambeth Palace Library, Fisher Papers, 1946 'with a patient pastoral care and administrative wisdom'.