When Sydney Smith reached the house the old lady was dead, and the bereaved widower, a religious man in his way, and acquainted with Scripture, said, "Ah, sir, you are too late: my poor dear wife has gone to Abraham's bosom.

Already he saw himself in it, his name surrounded with a glamour of pathetic romance, as the sad widower with a mystery darkening his past and future.

She shortly found out that an elderly Scotch lady, one Miss Christie Grant, an aunt of the late Mrs. Daniel Mortimer, was to come in a few days and pay a long visit, and she shrewdly suspected that the attractive widower being afraid to remain alone in his own house, made arrangements to have female visitors to protect him, and hence the invitation to her.

It is the way with many hopeful widowers (as everybody knows) to become, after an interval of decorous sadness, more brisk and gay than even in their youthful days; bestowing unusual care upon their attire and the adornment of their persons, and endeavoring, by a courteous and gallant demeanor towards every unmarried lady, to signify the great esteem in which they hold the female sex.

But ye widower is like ye familiar fireplace.

I was, like thee, a foundling, kept, by the charity of the reverend fathers, until Don Juan, a childless widower, adopted me.

Compensation should include medical attendance for a limited period, and two-thirds of the estimated loss of wages for disability, either total or partial, during its continuance; and, in case of death, funeral expenses, and from one to two-thirds of the estimated wages, to the widow (or dependent widower) and children, or to other dependent relatives.

The pleasantest woman in Savannah, young or old, is to be your compagnon de voyage, Miss Harz, and the most determined widower on record her escort; a perfect John Rogers of a man, with nine little motherless children, her brother Raguet ('Rag,' as we called him at school, on account of his prim stiffness, so that 'limber as a rag' seemed a most preposterous saying in his vicinity).

Honorius has vanquished the chief of the pirates,who was named Arnheim,and that disreputable widower, just before his last breath, gave Honorius the said paper,though why, it is not clear.

Mergel was and remained a distressed and finally rather pitiable widower, until all of a sudden he again appeared as a bridegroom.

Little, flushing, modest Florrie, who yesterday in the Five Towns was an infant, had compromised herself with a fat widower certainly old enough to be her father.

"No wonder the forlorn widower has recovered his spirits!"

What do I hear of poison; which sweet means Must make me a brave frolic widower?

When a penniless but oh, so ladylike "companion" goes to the Savoy in answer to a "with a view to matrimony" advertisement, what more natural than that the party of the first part should prove to benot a genteel widower in the haberdashery business, but a handsome super-burglar of immense wealth and all the more refined virtues.

A girl would naturally prefer him to a middle-aged widower with five children.

All his love could not long avail to keep her with him, however, for she soon sickened and died, leaving him an inconsolable widower.

Of all the people on this earth, a lone, lorn widower with three babies on his hands, is the most forlorn and miserable.

But "Portia," as some of the mansion-house people called her, did not happen to awaken the elective affinities of the lonely widower.

Of all the people on this earth, a lone, lorn widower with three babies on his hands, is the most forlorn and miserable.

I will tell thee, How thou shalt win my heartdie suddenly, And I'll become a lusty widower: The longer thy life lasts, the more my hate And loathing still increaseth towards thee.

You know male widowers do git that idee into their heads, them that are as humbly as Time in the Primer, and a onmarried woman can't ask 'em about the weather, or sheep, or anything but what they mistrust some hidden warmth, and pride themselves on how attractive they be.

Four of us had trailed thus far through this critical meal: my father, a usually patient widower who was becoming more than restless; the Robinsons, never a jocund brace of guests, who were by now positively sullen, and myself who, being but a boyof twenty odd years and having little enough to say to a woman of fifty-five and her still more antique husband, had long ago settled down to a determined silence.

Mr. Noel, a patriarchal widower of vast wealth, was inhabiting this mansion in the sole company of his only daughter, the lovely being just referred to.

His wife, who had been much afflicted by this preference of her rival, died, and the repentant widower swore never again to see Bianca.

And certainly it was not because of his personal appearance that Gotzkowsky, notwithstanding the early death of his wife, had never contracted a second marriage, but had preferred to remain a solitary widower.