Widows
[widəuz]
Examples
- He visited the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and kept himself unspotted from the world. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Widows, gentlemen, are not usually timorous, as my uncle used to say. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Some widows can guard against the wounds their children give them by turning their hearts to another husband and beginning life again. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The splendid opening of the story of Islam collapses suddenly into this squalid dispute and bickering of heirs and widows. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Oh, governesses--or widows. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
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