Her life before widowhood is her spiritual insurance policy. From Wordnik.com. [Widows] Reference
The rent provided a source of income for the couple and a means of maintaining the wife in widowhood, with the advantage of keeping the main estate intact for the heir. From Wordnik.com. [Gutenber-e Help Page] Reference
Women were far less frequently testators than men, and generally only in widowhood. From Wordnik.com. [Gutenber-e Help Page] Reference
It seems the so-called widowhood effect could be caused by the combined effects of stress and age-related changes in the immune system. From Wordnik.com. [New Scientist - Online News] Reference
First, for herself, the greater her husband's seniority, the greater are her chances of widowhood, which is in any case the destiny of an enormous preponderance of married women. From Wordnik.com. [Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles] Reference
Her widowhood was the price. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Planet] Reference
Her widowhood was a short one. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Adventure Tales] Reference
Here she forgot her widowhood, and found her childhood. From Wordnik.com. [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference
Princess Katherine occasionally lived during her widowhood. From Wordnik.com. [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference
So they were shut up to the day of their death, living in widowhood. From Wordnik.com. [The World English Bible (WEB): 2 Samuel] Reference
Maud, who had renounced the world in her widowhood, was then abbess. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
Madame Marmet, in her widowhood, had sold the books which her husband had left. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
These two things shall come upon thee suddenly in one day, barrenness and widowhood. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 27: Isaias The Challoner Revision] Reference
But the sudden death of Francis and the widowhood of Mary changed the whole situation. From Wordnik.com. [John Knox] Reference
They pitied the bereavement to which widowhood in the most cruel of forms was now added. From Wordnik.com. [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference
This part is well prefaced by the quiet account of the life of Gudrun in her widowhood, before. From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
Here was a woman and sister whose widowhood was more desolate than even death had made my own. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
So by descent, by marriage and by widowhood, Saadiyeh was part of little Jordan's highest society. From Wordnik.com. [Hiding in Plain Sight] Reference
His death, six months later, was followed by the birth of her only child and a ten years 'widowhood. From Wordnik.com. [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference
She is about forty years of age, and since her widowhood has lived in her house in the Rue Sainte-Anne. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The authors of the BMJ article concluded that the major danger for spouses of smokers was early widowhood!. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Dennis Gottfried: Obesity is Contagious] Reference
We marry, and find we have taken upon ourselves misery, and lifelong widowhood of the mind and moral nature. From Wordnik.com. [Ideala] Reference
"Oh, you old bachelors!" laughed Dickie's mother, and sailed away to spend her second season of widowhood abroad. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
As her children scattered her resources increased, so that after one year of widowhood she was quite independent. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
She was the widow of a member of the 'Academie des Inscriptions', and plumed herself upon her illustrious widowhood. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
And she arose and went her way: and putting off the apparel which she had taken, put on the garments of her widowhood. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 01: Genesis The Challoner Revision] Reference
Her mother, the blessed Itta, lived five years under her conduct, and died in the twelfth year of her widowhood, in 652. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
For she put off her the garments of widowhood, and put on her the garments of joy, to give joy to the children of Israel. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 18: Judith The Challoner Revision] Reference
"Mere Cognette," who lost her husband about 1835, opened a little cafe at Issoudun during the first years of her widowhood. From Wordnik.com. [Women in the Life of Balzac] Reference
In her fashion, she had been in love several times during her widowhood, but never sufficiently so to surrender her liberty. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
Many young girls are thus condemned unwillingly to lead unmarried lives, their widowhood having often begun in actual childhood. From Wordnik.com. [India and the Indians] Reference
Because our 20 years together had been rich with life's pleasures, I prepared myself for a widowhood that was lonely but secure. From Wordnik.com. [SUDDENLY WIDOWED AND FIGHTING THE IRS] Reference
A wife and children, threatened with widowhood and orphanage, have knelt at your feet on the very threshold of the Senate Chamber. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
Delayed marriage, divorce, retirement, widowhood, higher incomes and grown children have freed women to travel, often on their own. From Wordnik.com. [Women For Women] Reference
These women take to suicide missions because they have no lives after widowhood; their countrymen do not want a nonvirgin as a wife. From Wordnik.com. [Al Qaeda's New Face of Terror] Reference
PERSONAL -- "'A young woman, to whom black is particularly becoming, would like to meet a gentleman in poor health; object, widowhood. '". From Wordnik.com. [The New Pun Book] Reference
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