It's just like a marriage certificate, only it unmarries you instead of marrying you; but I didn't know it then.

Don't you think Mr. Randolph is a very lovable man?" "I think it was entirely out of place for you to spend the day in the woods with an unmarried man.

Mahine and Maraa, two girls of my acquaintance, unmarried and the merriest in Tautira, joined me.

It was afterwards converted into an hospital, for the reception of indigent women, either unmarried or widows, to be selected from Balsall and Long Itchington, in Warwickshire, Trentham, in Staffordshire, or Lillenhall, in Shropshire.

In a book written for the edification of his unmarried daughters, Chaucer's contemporary, the Knight of La Tour Landry, tells the following interesting anecdote.

For all that have preceded thee, and they were many hundreds, have said the very same: and yet all without exception have come to a miserable end: and there she is, unmarried still[10].

And there is my daughter, maiden and unmarried still.

[10] It may not be superfluous to remind the English reader, that, according to Hindoo ideas, there is no disgrace like that of possessing an unmarried daughter.

The old-fashioned heroine was unmarried.

She is, I know, still unmarried, but I know not whether she has any regard for me.

To Pennock Mark told his story, exhibited his proofs, and laid bare his whole policy, under a pledge of secresy, offering at the same time to receive his friend, his wife, children, and two unmarried sisters, into the colony.

Father is legal guardian of minor children; at his death mother becomes guardian as long as she remains unmarried.

Wife can sue and be sued as if unmarried.

HUSBAND AND WIFE: Wife controls own earnings and property, may be sued and sue, carry on business, etc., as if unmarried.

Wife may make a will as if unmarried.

Wife has full disposal of property, can sue, etc., as if unmarried.

Wife controls her separate property, can sue, etc., as if unmarried.

She can be executor, make contracts, etc., as if unmarried.

On the death of an unmarried child, father inherits all its property.

In the States where women vote and are eligible for political offices, there are fewer unmarried women in proportion to the population than in States where they have no such rights.

It is this which has, for a thousand years, made the unmarried woman, the Old Maid, the butt of the contemptible jibes of Christian society, whereof you will find no parallel in pagan antiquity.

Of old the unmarried woman could do little except sit by the fire and spin or make clothing for the South Sea Islanders.

Wives have infinite liberties in life that would be terrible in an unmarried woman to take.

" Perhaps when Oldfield delivered these virtuous lines, she thought to herself that happiness, even of the unmarried kind, was never very far away from home.

"You might as well blame the priest, who thought it best not to let them go unmarried.