I'm sure being out in this sun cannot be good for this sweet maid.

This sweet maid, as you call her, has work to do.

I thought thy bride bed to have deck'd, sweet maid, not to have strewn thy grave.

God help her, thought Alys, but the sweet maid is still in love with the Breton.

"Be good, sweet maid, and just let ME be clever."

You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock And make conceive a bark of baser kind.

Phebe Moore - a sweet maid who Rose befriended in Eight Cousins.

Britomartis ("sweet maid") is an epithet that does not reveal the goddess's name, nor her character, for it has the ring of an apotropaic euphemism.

But to whom shall I give this prize, this pearl, this sweet and lovely maid?

"It just stands to reason that a sweet maid like me tastes better than any old messy goblin!"