"He is the single solitary man I ever knew whose widow was contented to be simply his relict for ever and ever, amen.

Yes, if you lived to be thirty-seven years older than Methuselah, and every genius and potentate in the world should come a-wooing in the meantime, it never would occur to you that you could possibly be anything, even to an insane person, except his relict.

"If he bring but a relict away, He is happy, nor heard to complain.

He certainly looked as if he believed it when Lady Mealhead told himand his expressive Gallic eyes waxed tender at the mention of her mother, the relict of the late clergyman, whose name had somehow been overlooked by Crockford.

Mrs. Abbott, for so was this demi-relict called, was just on the verge of what is termed the "good society" of the village, the most uneasy of all positions for an ambitious and ci-devant pretty woman to be placed in.

That pee-jacket is the best article in the chest, and, sent across to the Harbour, about the time the ships are going out, it would bring enough to maintain Daggett a month!" Such had been the character of the widow's visitations to the chest, though no one knew anything of her discoveries, not even her sister-relict, neighbour Stone.

widow, widower; relict; dowager; divorcee; cuckold; grass widow, grass widower; merry widow.

"If he bring but a relict away, He is happy, nor heard to complain.

Dedicated to Mrs. Walpole, Relict of the Honourable Galfridus Walpole. B.M. (1086.

The sweeper of New Haven College, in New England, lately becoming a widower, conceived a violent passion for the relict of his deceased Cambridge brother, which he expressed in the following strain: Mistress Ay.

I therefore resolved that my choice should lie among widows of a discreet age, and I fixed my purpose on Mrs. Nugent, the relict of a professor in the University of Glasgow, both because she was a well-bred woman without any children, and because she was held in great estimation as a lady of Christian principle.

When Constanze was elderly and the second time widowed, she was, according to Crowest, visited by an English lady and her husbandan eminent musicianboth of whom were anxious to converse with the relict of the great master.

But, unfortunately, there were no Life Insurance Companies among the Macrobians, and therefore nothing to bring down this formidable average to a reliable schedule,such as accurately informs every modern man how long he may live honestly, without defrauding either his relict or his insurers.

But then you know, Wyllys, as the consort and relict of a flag-officer, it was not seemly that I should be ignorant of naval science.

"Leaving the 'bone in her mouth' under her stern, as a light-house for all that come after!" Then, as if they found singular satisfaction in dwelling on these images of the worthy relict of the gallant Admiral, they broke out simultaneously into a fit of clamorous merriment, that caused the old ruin to ring, as in its best days of windy power.

The great Southern Heiress, General Grayson's fine daughter, is to be a passenger she, and her overlooker, Government-lady, I believe they call hera Mrs Wyllysare waiting for the signal, up here, at the residence of Madam de Lacey; she that is the relict of the Rear-Admiral of that name, who is full-sister to the General; and, therefore, an aunt to the young lady, according to my reckoning.

While his crew were busied in coiling ropes, and clearing the decks, their young Commander leaned his head on the taffrail, (that part of the vessel which the good relict of the Rear-Admiral had so strangely confounded with a very different object in the other end of the ship), remaining for many minutes in an attitude of deep abstraction.

My spouse, poor man, could not live out the play, But dy'd commodiously on wedding-day,[A] While I his relict, made at one bold fling, Myself a princess, and young Sty a King.

First, Sir, her carriage in her concerns with me, for I never yet could meet with a sorrowful relict but was herself enough to make a hard bargain with me.

Who could love such an unhappy relict as I am?

This stroke consisted in his marriage to Martha Custis, relict of the wealthy Daniel Parke Custis.

If dead, it was clear that his memory, however cherished by his relict, was associated with feelings too keen to admit of any other but solitary indulgence.

As the Empress had not distressed objects enough among her own people to gratify her humanity, she turned the torrent of her bounty towards that unhappy relict the Duchess of Kingston, and ordered her Admiralty to take particular care of the marvellous yacht that bore Messalina and her fortune.

No rich relict of a defunct Ball was available for a Bishop in those days.

It was at number One Hundred and Two in this agreeable thoroughfare that my friend's innamorata resided with her maternal aunt, the worthy relict of Monsieur Jacques Marotte, umbrella-maker, deceased.