310 examples of widowers in sentences

All the poor and destitute in the country, orphans, widowers, and childless men, maimed people and cripples, and all who are diseased, go to those houses, and are provided with every kind of help, and doctors examine their diseases.

Widows and widowers pay no legacy-duty for property coming to them through their deceased partners. 2730.

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.

A bill was presented in the House of Commons by Premier Asquith on January 5, 1916, providing for compulsory service by "all men between the ages of 18 and 41 who are bachelors or widowers without children dependent on them."

" Mrs. Abbott made a distinction, habitually, between the cases of widowers and widows, as the first, she maintained, might get married whenever they pleased, and the latter only when they got offers; and she felt just that sort of horror of a man's thinking of marrying too soon after the death of his wife, as might be expected in one who actually thought of a second husband before the first was dead.

On the right of Marianne came Ambroise, Therese, Gervais, Dr. Chambouvet, three widowers and a widow, then another married couple, Madeleine and her husband, architect Herbette, and then Benjamin alone.

As it was, he quickly learnt by experience, and within six months, having picked up a comfortable knowledge of things, he transferred himself to one of those well-equipped boarding establishments in the best part of Bayswater, wherein bachelors, old maids, young women, widowers, and married couples without encumbrance, can live together in as much or as little friendship and intercourse as pleases their individual tastes.

In Arms and the Man, he satirizes the romantic admiration for the soldier's calling; in The Doctor's Dilemma (1906), he attacks the professional man; in Widowers' Houses (1898), he assails the rich property holder with his high rents on poor people's houses: and in Man and Superman (1903), he dissects love and home until the sentiment is entirely taken out of them.

The lucky ones marry well-to-do widowers with large families, and so slip into a comfortable groove by the time they are five-and-thirty.

Widowers are allowed to marry again and most of them do.

There are only 8,110,084 widowers in all India as against nearly 26,000,000 widows.

This letter winds up with a strange admonition: "Look to living, reflect and weigh things well; for the number of widows in the world is always larger than that of the widowers."

The reason why nothing opposes and hinders such persons from again contracting wedlock, is, because they have not been the essentials of marriage; and hence those essentials do not at all influence them after separation by death: therefore they are then absolutely at their own disposal, whether they be widowers or widows, to bind their sensual affections with whomsoever they please, provided there be no legal impediment.

Both were widowers; both lived alone.

I only beg of them to remember that I am not discussing girl-trained men or widowers.

They answered, two of them were widowers, and the other three single men.

" It is true that the widowers also in some cases subjected themselves to penance; but usually they made it very much easier for themselves than for the widows.

Under such circumstances it may appear strange that some widowers should commit suicide upon the death of a wife, as Seernan assures us they do (193).

There is no reason, to my thinking, why you should not enjoy the companionship of interesting bachelors and widowers, and take the courtesies they offer, with no chaperon but your own pride, taste, and will.

" An even more terrible churchyard demon is the fascinating phantom that waylays the widower at his wife's very tomb, and poisons him by her kiss when he has yielded to her blandishments.

If they happened to dip into the clean water, they would marry maidens or bachelors; if into the dirty water, they would be widowers or widows; if into the empty bowl, they would live unmarried.

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.

Alderneyalmost certain to be the next Viceroy of Indiaone of the most charming of widowers, with an only daughterit had been plain both to Lord Findon and his stupid wife that Eugénie had made a deep impression upon a man no less romantic than fastidious.

That is for ye old bachelors and ye widowers to whom ye food and wine are dear, but ye woman who gives them not dear enough.

O how nice it would be if bachelors or widowers were appointed Governors.

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