Childless

Examples

• But Adrian is alone, wifeless, childless, unoccupied. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• And Celia the matron naturally felt more able to advise her childless sister. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Thou wilt have the less to provide for, Jew, if thou art childless, said Aymer. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• One by one, her brothers and sister died; and her mother, with the exception of her neglected daughter, was left childless. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• For some years they remained childless. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The childless old lady had offered to adopt one of the girls when the troubles came, and was much offended because her offer was declined. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I am an aged beggar'd man--I fear me a childless--have ruth on me, and let me go! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• For he was now divorcing his old helper Josephine, because she was childless, in order to secure the continuity of his dynasty. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• To the book of Genesis the reader must go to read how Abraham, being childless, doubted this promise, and of the births of Ishmael and Isaac. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• If I had been a casual passer-by, I should have probably supposed that some childless person lay dead in it. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• If she died single, or died childless, the estate would revert to her cousin, Magdalen, the daughter of Mr. Arthur Fairlie. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.

Edited by Candice