I am wifeless, I childless — I could find no duty to do. From Wordnik.com. [When the Sleeper Wakes] Reference
Looked forlornly round his comfortable wifeless sitting-room. From Wordnik.com. [Forfeit]
Better live wifeless, or anything else, rather than marry for money. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
In 1285 King Alexander was wifeless and childless, and the heir to the. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of the Border Marches] Reference
A widower he was, many years wifeless, and without any children, leastways none by the marriage. From Wordnik.com. [Monk's Hood]
I am wifeless — childless — who is it speaks of the childless as the dead twigs on the tree of life?. From Wordnik.com. [When the Sleeper Wakes] Reference
Why tell the story of a life surrounded by taste and womanly adornments, followed by a childless, wifeless old age?. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873] Reference
Isaac was wifeless and childless, but so eager for gain was he that he kept his house constantly filled with lodgers. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
But the sickness of children, bridal-beds ravished by Death-dreadful! when we might be wifeless and childless to the end. From Wordnik.com. [Alcestis] Reference
He was determined to do no such thing, and yet extremely conscious that he could not go on much longer in this wifeless condition. From Wordnik.com. [On Forsyte 'Change] Reference
For a second I thought I'd guessed wrong about Mullin being wifeless, for this was surely the woman in the group photo, Margaret's mother. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
Self-despoiled! childless! wifeless! inexorable fate!. From Wordnik.com. [Love and Life Behind the Purdah] Reference
But for those wifeless chaps, it rose only 16 percent. From Wordnik.com. [ajc.com - News] Reference
I am wifeless, I childless -- I could find no duty to do. From Wordnik.com. [When the Sleeper Wakes] Reference
At this pause it is to be said that the son of Jahdai was wifeless. From Wordnik.com. [The Prince of India — Volume 01] Reference
It was a dreary winter for the wifeless man and the motherless boy. From Wordnik.com. [Father and Son: a study of two temperaments] Reference
And so he drifted -- not such a bachelor as Beethoven, yet quite as wifeless. From Wordnik.com. [The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2] Reference
I was still wifeless, and a day has not elapsed, since I became another's husband. From Wordnik.com. [An Essence of the Dusk, 5th Edition] Reference
And I'm not talking about the kind of closet that would undoubtedly leave me wifeless. From Wordnik.com. [Pam's House Blend - Front Page] Reference
Since her death, I have been a wifeless, childless, homeless wanderer over the wide world!. From Wordnik.com. [Self-Raised] Reference
A motherless girl and a wifeless man ought not to be judged in the same way other people are. From Wordnik.com. [Phyllis] Reference
Charles Radnor, dying wifeless, had left his only son to her care until he should come of age. From Wordnik.com. [A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales] Reference
Bricket had come to the late Sir Nicholas from his elder brother, dying wifeless and childless. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragic Muse] Reference
It was then that Mr. Skaggs, practically childless, determined to make himself wifeless as well. From Wordnik.com. [The Man from Brodney's] Reference
The injured marquis, finding all his efforts vain, returned wifeless and childless to his chateau. From Wordnik.com. [Louis XIV. Makers of History Series] Reference
What a busy domicile the wifeless house in Aldersgate Street must have been through the year 1644!. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649] Reference
Guenevere, for her sake remaining wifeless all his days, and in all things being her faithful knight. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes Every Child Should Know] Reference
I am wifeless -- childless -- who is it speaks of the childless as the dead twigs on the tree of life?. From Wordnik.com. [When the Sleeper Wakes] Reference
Motherless, sisterless, and wifeless -- strange to say, under such circumstances, he was restless too. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 453 Volume 18, New Series, September 4, 1852] Reference
Those were good days -- for a wifeless man -- with Witta and his heathen -- beyond the world's end. From Wordnik.com. [Puck of Pook's Hill] Reference
The cabin of the wifeless Patrick was high up the valley and high up on the bank, a short way after all. From Wordnik.com. [The Gold of Chickaree] Reference
To what end do you plod there every day, -- you who are wifeless and childless, and have no need of money for yourself?. From Wordnik.com. [Dreams and Dream Stories] Reference
Bending a little, as though very weary, the friendless, wifeless, childless man raised his furrowed face and looked up. From Wordnik.com. [Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 (of 2)] Reference
The reason they assign for these early marriages is, that they may not be left wifeless, in case their parents should die. From Wordnik.com. [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time] Reference
He had lived his soldier life wifeless, but, like other soldiers, his heart had had its rubs and aches in the days gone by. From Wordnik.com. [From the Ranks] Reference
Irving could only live very modestly, because the wifeless, childless man had a number of children to whom he was as a father. From Wordnik.com. [Roundabout Papers] Reference
He was, consequently, no father of a family, with a wife and a son; he stood alone in jealous isolation, wifeless and childless. From Wordnik.com. [Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs] Reference
So saying, the whole caravan moved forward, leaving poor Curt in loneliness, wifeless, childless, helpless, and in money penniless. From Wordnik.com. [Master William Mitten: or, A Youth of Brilliant Talents, Who Was Ruined by Bad Luck] Reference
All will honour his enthusiasm, and if he be wifeless and childless, his disregard of the great object of men's work will be blameless. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography of Anthony Trollope] Reference
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