It was a pity, old Lady Belstone whispered to her spinster sister, that John was not a Crewys, for he had a remarkably fine head, and had he been but a little taller and slimmer, would have been a credit to the family.

The solitary mistress of this immaculate home is a spinster sempstress in the thirties.

She was a gray-haired, wrinkled spinster woman when she went into Captain Melville's house; but their life was by no means without romance.

and then he tells 'how he had received a present the last Sunday of fruitand from whom.' They pause next on Sir Peter Lely's portrait of Cowleynext on Hogarth's Sarah Malcolm, the murderess of her mistress; thenand doubtless, the spinster ladies are in fault here for the delay,on Mrs. Damer's model of two kittens, pets, though, of Horace Walpole'sfor he who loved few human beings was, after the fashion of bachelors, fond of cats.

I 'spect she was married, don't you?" said Ann Sweetser, Mrs. Bunker's spinster cousin, who always helped her on these occasions.

Mrs Humphrey Ward is not the only opponent of women's suffrage to state that the atmosphere of girls' schools suffers from the preponderating spinster element.

Find, if you can, something admirable in this plain spinster keeping, at the age of thirty-seven, a room in her breast adorned and ready for first love; find it pitiful, if you must, that the blind boy should mistake his lodging; only do not laugh, or your laughter may accuse you in the sequel.

Now, this predestinate spinster acquaintance of mine, well nigh spoiled by years of school-teaching in the wrong spirit, was determined to think kindergarten play simply a piece of nauseating frivolity.

But a widow or a spinster owner, if herself acting as the enterpriser, is reported as "occupied" in agriculture.

The practical sister of the spinster pair who cherish (respectively) a secret attachment for Mr. Dermer.

Her picture (the married woman's picture) is of an undesired and undesirable little spinster pining visibly and shamelessly in a parsonage.

All hopes of a husband and a home of their own had quite died out of their spinster bosoms, and they would not have been human had they not secretly and grievously envied the comely, blooming Isabella her husband, children, and home.

From this instance of childish character one would have anticipated a career for Madame Adelaide, and I hate being obliged to think of her merely developing into one of the three spinster aunts of Louis XVI.

I, in my modern costume, sat down between two pairs of candles to the piano in the decaying drawing-room, which like a spinster strove to conceal its age.

Not only those with daughters to bring out, but many of my spinster contemporaries are listed with the buds at balls and dinner dances, and their gowns and jewels described.