48 Metaphors for widow

Widows are indeed the great Game of your Fortune-Hunters.

The widow Keswick has as many cranks and crotchets in her head as there are seeds in a tobacco pod; but this is the queerest and the wildest of them all.

" "And if I refuse?" "Your widow will then be the individual most concerned.

~The Widow's Mite.~ She was a widow stern and spry, And brimming with lots of fight; She married a little man five feet high, And he died from the widow's might.

On the same day, also, the young widow, Mailah, became the wife of Henrich's chosen friend and companion, Jyanough, who had never left the Nausetts since first he joined them, but had followed his brother-in- arms in all his various wanderings.

With us, the widow remains the head of the family, as the father was.

"Well, then, see that you don't," was the widow Keswick's reply.

While he watched her the widow was becoming more and more a necessity in the life of Old Heck.

But the widow feels it a sacred duty to give it to the world; she seems, too, to regard it as a sacred duty for me, as a loyal friend, to edit the book, fill up the gaps, and see it through the press.

Even so well, That if this Widow were my guest, not yours, She should have coach enough, and scope to ride.

Widows are expert love-makers themselves an' know how to keep things goin'!"

At the time when the double misfortune above recorded befell him at the hands of Lucina and the War Office, his father had been some years dead; but Simon Sterne's widow was still mistress of the property which she had brought with her at her marriage, and to Elvington, accordingly, "as soon," writes Sterne, "as I was able to be carried," the compulsorily retired ensign betook himself with his wife and his two children.

A widow could not therefore, except by special permission from the emperor, be the legal guardian of her children, but must ask the court to appoint one upon the death of her husband.

Some witty creature has said, "A little widow is a dangerous thing.

A widow is such a distant relation: no wonder I look indistinct.

In the wilderness a husband was almost a necessity to a woman; her surroundings made the loss of the protector and provider an appalling calamity; and the widow, no matter how sincere her sorrow, soon remarriedfor there were many suitors where women were not over-plenty.

An English widow and two quiet old German professors on a vacation were the only inmates besides themselves and the buxom Swiss housekeeper and her maids.

The funeral ceremonies now begin, the widow being the chief mourner.

His children were gentlemen, and could boast of their "birth"; and when he died, his widow was a widow of conditionthat is Somethingand his name stood on the corner of the street, and was in everybody's lipsthat is Something, too!

ass widow" was, in any case, an extremely unlovely passage in Sterne's life.

I found my Friend begin to rave, and insensibly led him towards the House, that we might be joined by some other Company; and am convinced that the Widow is the secret Cause of all that Inconsistency which appears in some Parts of my Friend's Discourse; tho' he has so much Command of himself as not directly to mention her, yet according to that of Martial, which one knows not how to render in English, Dum facet hanc loquitur.

Grit's widow was "Great" Taylor, whose inadequate first name was Nella young, immaculate creature whose body was splendid even if her vision and spirit were small.

Suddenly, the widow was goneher house and furniture were soldthe happy event was announced in the papersno cake was sent outso the gossips were disappointed; and as I have since learnt, that the lady has thrice undergone a separation from her husband, I imagine that she must have been so likewise.

No Knight no Widow, if you make me any thing, it must be a Lady, and so I take my leave.

The widow of John Charteris, in fine, was a very different person from that Anne Willoughby whom Rudolph Musgrave had loved so long and long ago.

48 Metaphors for  widow