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- In these ranks were certain maiden ladies and widows who found in church work an outlet to an otherwise circumscribed existence. [9]
- The good woman took the first opportunity she had to introduce the matter, a little diffusely, as is often the way of widows who keep boarders. [6]
- She was terribly thirsty, and seeing one of the widows mixing some wine and water and offer it to one of the wounded men who pushed it away, she took courage and begged the deaconess to give her a drink. [10]
- I am virtually the trustee for thousands of stockholders, many of whom are widows and orphans. [9]
- Mr. Parker said that widows would burn themselves now if the government would allow it. [5]
- So was the Suttee; and within the time of men still living eight hundred widows willingly, and, in fact, rejoicingly, burned themselves to death on the bodies of their dead husbands in a single year. [5]
- Few widows have such an avenue of approach to their domain as the Widow Patten has. [4]
- Everybody bought, everybody sold--except widows and preachers; they always hold on; and when the tide ebbs, they get left. [5]
- By it no Orphans starving, no widows weeping. [7]
- Easy-crying widows take new husbands soonest; there is nothing like wet weather for transplanting, as Master Gridley used to say. [6]
- We did not know whether to smile or to drop a tear, as we contemplated these baits hung out to tempt the coins from the exiguous purses of ancient maidens, forlorn widows, withered annuitants, stranded humanity in every stage of shipwrecked penury. [6]
- I beseech you, I implore you, in the name of your anxious friends, in the name of your suffering families, in the name of your impending widows and orphans, stop ere it be too late. [5]
- Also we saw Caesar invade Britain--"not that those barbarians had done him any harm, but because he wanted their land, and desired to confer the blessings of civilization upon their widows and orphans," as Satan explained. [5]
- Perhaps it was because of the seeming interest in it of the higher powers--for suicide and consequent widows and orphans were not unknown there. [9]
- He left Chamonix as soon as he conveniently could after the descent; and as he had shown a chilly indifference about the calamity, and offered neither sympathy nor assistance to the widows and orphans, he carried with him the cordial execrations of the whole community. [5]
- And our blood, and the grief for the widows and the fatherless, went for nothing. [9]
- The princesses Aline and Sophie sit whole days with me, and we, unhappy widows of live men, make beautiful conversations over our charpie, only you, my friend, are missing..." and so on. [2]
- Of widows, orphans, and mothers 22,198 have been placed on the army pension rolls and 248 on the navy rolls. [7]
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