| 单词 | spinster |
| 例句 | A girl of your station will likely stay a spinster and not have to concern yourself with such matters.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Some prosperous Frenchman had built the house in the late 1700s to house a menage of wife, children, and spinster tantes. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “You have never been married? You are a spinster?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z What I needed to do was find an apartment in town, the kind of building where single, plain girls lived, spinsters, secretaries, teachers. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z But again, he might be too pressed with invitations from his university mates to find time for a visit with a sister who was only an old spinster and a factory girl to boot. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Without anything being said openly, the fact remained that the daughter had sacrificed her life to care for the mother, and that she had become a spinster for that reason. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I always thought my cousin, that poor spinster girl, was writing them.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A tall, heavyset spinster, about forty years old, she always wore a scarf on her head, tied beneath the chin, even during class, and she spoke with a slow, careful Appalachian accent. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The meekness of the wire hangers, with their twisted throats and bent heads — they waited too patiently, too neatly, every one a spinster. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z A spinster’s hot heaves; how pointed her needs were, it was impossible to sleep. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z It may be that a woman’s tendency toward “spinster- hood” is a contributory cause to her attending college, rather than the other way around. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The little elderly spinster was no longer slightly ridiculous to Vera. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z “I—I’ve come to hate factory life. Oh Betsy, I hate what it’s doing to me. I don’t even know myself anymore. This corporation is turning me into a sour old spinster.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z For the greater number of her twenty-nine years, Bibi Haldar suffered from an ailment that baffled family, friends, priests, palmists, spinsters, gem therapists, prophets, and fools. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z It was the nasal voice of Miss Grybas, the spinster teacher from school. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z An aunt—that seemed possible; a visiting spinster aunt, slightly odd, but nice. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z And yet she could see her two daughters, two spinsters beyond the marriageable age; they were at least twenty-five. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z They came more out of kindness than faith, giving the aging spinster a chance to recall her good old days in the tenements. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A letter came addressed to Matt from a spinster aunt of Shadrach’s who lived in Washington, a woman of whom Shad had often spoken. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z To many people the very word conjures up memories of choking on chalk dust and cowering in fear of a thwack on the knuckles from a spinster schoolteacher. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z But trying to imagine Katherine pledging herself to a life as a spinster doesn't quite fit. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z No, she amended, Judith would never be a spinster. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z She was a spinster teacher from school, one of the strict ones. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z And the spinster cousin, Charlotte, who chaperoned her abroad? Edwardian travelers of ‘Room with a View’ come to 5th Avenue stage 2014-04-10T00:10:47Z The family members convened and my grandfather was designated as the one who would marry her because otherwise the poor girl wouldn't marry - she would be a spinster. T Magazine: Back to Bernalda 2012-11-15T14:01:25Z The novel is narrated by Mattie Ross, a spinster who tells the story of her quest many years earlier to avenge her father’s murder by a no-account by the name of Tom Chaney. Film: The Coen Brothers, Shooting Straight 2010-12-10T19:26:00Z She is the tragic spinster par excellence, a pain-seeking missile who couldn't be more open to repeated nuptial disappointment if she wore a large sign on her back saying: "Jilt Me". Rewind TV: Downton Abbey; Restless; Loving Miss Hatto; The Girl; David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St Paul – review 2012-12-30T00:06:04Z Summer and Smoke A small-town spinster falls in love with a doctor's son in Tennessee Williams' drama. L.A. theater openings, Feb. 28-March 6: 'Blood,' 'Summer and Smoke' and more 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z In the spirit of improv, audience members will help suggest a “new cast of suitors, sisters, and spinsters with every performance.” Arts and entertainment highlights for the week of Dec. 30 2012-12-27T19:32:18Z But he can only undo so much; her three spinster aunts hide her away, tut-tutting for nine months, until the baby is born. Newly Released Books 2011-07-20T21:21:46Z Massey worked most frequently in television and was a stalwart of British period dramas, often cast as a waspish spinster or maiden aunt. British actress Anna Massey dies at 73 2011-07-04T18:01:04Z In the 1500s some towns, such as Chester, England, actually made it illegal for most women to sell beer, worried that young alewives would grow up into old spinsters. Women used to dominate the beer industry — until the witch accusations started pouring in 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z I was a “male spinster” Topics: bachelorhood, , , , Matrimony, singlehood, The author with his wife, Lucy At the wedding of my younger brother, in 2000, someone mistook me for the groom. I was a “male spinster” 2012-11-29T01:00:00Z “In this show, both Liza and Kelsey are very focused on their career, and they don’t come out like pinched spinster schoolmarms,” she said. ‘Younger’ Departs a Covid-Free New York, a Fantasy to the End 2021-04-11T04:00:00Z In the course of her travels, she meets a carter, a businessman, a racecourse clerk and a stiffly Protestant spinster. All That Fall - review 2012-10-12T00:00:16Z She is the tragic spinster in 1950s Dublin who imagines that the attentions being paid to her by Bob Hoskins’s brash businessman mean that she is on the verge of a great romance. Maggie Smith's 20 best films – ranked! 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Caroline Cashion is a French literature professor at Georgetown University who uses words such as “stodgy”and “spinster”to describe her life. The thriller ‘The Bullet’ stars a Georgetown professor with a secret 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z Frances is hardworking and full of common sense, and yet still eager for something more than domestic servitude and the life of a spinster. The ten best books of 2014 “Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore,” at the Jewish Museum, samples the extraordinary trove of European art amassed by two American spinsters in the first half of the 20th century. Art Review: What They Loved and What They Bought 2011-05-06T06:15:06Z She is stoic and sensitive, hardworking and full of common sense, and yet still eager for something more than domestic servitude and the life of a spinster daughter. Michael Dirda reviews ‘The Paying Guests,’ by Sarah Waters Among my favorite passages in “No Stopping Us Now” are descriptions of spinsters. Women of a Certain Age, Gail Collins Has Your Back 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z Her spinster daughter, Myrtle Mae, finally attracts the attentions of a psychiatric orderly on the strength of her egg and onion sandwiches. Valentine's Day: let's hear it for Hollywood's odd couples 2013-02-14T08:01:01Z Those in charge of the official murder investigation always doubt the apparently batty spinster when she's already miles ahead of them. Your next box set: Marple 2010-08-13T05:45:00Z FOR simplicity’s sake, let’s call me a childless spinster. Let?s Hear It for Aunthood 2011-09-17T01:51:44Z “Beauty Queen,” the story of an Irish spinster and her manipulative mother, begins performances on Jan. 11 at BAM’s Harvey Theater. BAM Unveils Its Winter/Spring Season 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z "One Out of Two," a wily, compressed novel by the late Mexican writer Daniel Sada, features spinster twins who at first blush seem most intent on confusing bystanders as to which sister is which. In Daniel Sada's ticklish 'One Out of Two,' twins raise questions about self and identity 2015-12-24T05:00:00Z To support himself in the style to which he would like to become accustomed Emerenziano sets his eye on the three spinster daughters of a recently deceased wealthy eccentric. DVD: A Version of Gogol?s Short Story ?The Overcoat? on DVD 2012-01-13T18:02:55Z "I was born to be a spinster," Sarah tells herself, "and by God, I'm going to spin." Winifred Holtby's South Riding 2011-02-19T00:05:25Z He would like to see the two take up the approved life of spinsters. Review | In ‘Miss Kopp Just Won’t Quit,’ being one of the first female sheriff’s deputies is tough business 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Two years later, Laurents had one of his biggest successes, "The Time of the Cuckoo," a rueful comedy about a lonely spinster who finds romance in Venice with an already married Italian shopkeeper. 'Gypsy' playwright Arthur Laurents dies in NYC 2011-05-06T03:47:09Z When her middle granddaughter, Lady Edith, frets that she will end up a spinster, Lady Violet says briskly, “Don’t be defeatist, Dear, it’s very middle class.” Critic?s Notebook: ?Downton Abbey? Stokes Flames for Season 2 - Review 2012-01-06T17:33:23Z In this new world, George Bailey's wife is a spinster. "It's a Wonderful Life": The most terrifying movie ever 2010-12-25T00:01:00Z For centuries, Shakespeare’s male biographers twisted these meager facts into a misogynistic scenario: An aging spinster entraps a callow youth and a loveless, mostly long-distance, marriage ensues. Shakespeare Lost His Son to Plague. A Novel Asks How It Shaped His Art. 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z Even the prickly interdependence of the spinster and her mulish employee has less drama than the relationship of the two to the grim grandeur of their environment. The Wild West in the South of France 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z Two dotty spinster aunts euthanize their lonely lodgers, one of their nephews thinks he’s Teddy Roosevelt, another is a psychopathic killer on the lam, and the third is a drama critic. The Odyssey tries to breathe some fresh air into a dusty, musty 'Arsenic and Old Lace' 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z The two are thrown back together several months later when Daphne is bequeathed a cipher that promises financial security — something every good spinster requires. The best love story is the one that happens by accident 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z The first section, set in contemporary Lisbon, is the story of Pilar, a devout do-gooding spinster who attends political rallies, haunts movie theaters and indulges the temperamental behavior of her elderly neighbor, Aurora. Film: ‘Tabu,’ Newest Genre Breaker From Miguel Gomes 2012-12-23T03:49:46Z Until Nabil appears out of the blue in the middle of the film, you might assume that Anna Maria, with her hair tied in a bun, is a spinster. Movie Review: ‘Paradise: Faith,’ the Second in Ulrich Seidl’s Trilogy 2013-08-22T21:51:23Z His death threw the Austen women on hard times and, at 29, she was also facing the fact that she would likely remain a spinster — just like Elizabeth Watson, the older sister in the novel. Jane Austen’s Unfinished Novel Comes to the Stage 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z Mirren compared the widow Winchester, whom she called “fascinating,” to jilted spinster Miss Haversham from Charles Dickens’ “Great Expectations,” a literary character famous for being an eccentric, distraught recluse who lives in the past. Helen Mirren delves into the haunted mystery of 'Winchester' 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z "The costume is wrong and the image creates a myth Austen was a demure spinster and not a deep-thinking author." Jane Austen's 10-pound bank note, not without irony, is revealed 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z Would I follow her to India and become some weird spinster friend? A Forbidden Relationship, From the Other Side of the World 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z There is Emanuella the spinster teacher, who hangs pictures of beautiful creatures in the classrooms and who is mocked by the villagers because she cannot find a man. Suddenly in the Depths of the Forest by Amos Oz | Book review 2010-04-02T23:05:00Z “There was the idea of ‘tragic, barren spinster’ because she was unmarried in her 30s,” Fielding said. Bridget Jones is Back in ‘Mad About the Boy’ 2013-10-14T14:44:34Z I hate that word – “spinster” – but it’s the most succinct way of describing me. What I learned from a male sex surrogate 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z She never married — “I’d rather be a free spinster, and paddle my own canoe,” she said. ‘Jo Was Everything I Wanted to Be’: 5 Writers on ‘Little Women’ 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z Many spinsters, feeling socially and biologically redundant, were driven towards eccentricity and neurosis. Age of Arousal ? review 2011-02-25T18:48:46Z Her spinster role is one of naïveté, innocence and inexperience. The best character on "The Gilded Age" is the bustle, adding an extra party to the back 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z In that way, Bevin is probably luckier than Aniston, who just lost the nation's support as the hottest spinster in America. Is Jennifer Aniston a "homewrecker"? 2011-06-22T20:23:00Z Laughton’s film features its own protector of lost children in the person of Miss Cooper, a feisty spinster who memorably describes herself as a “strong tree with branches for many birds.” DVD: New DVDs, Mary Pickford on Blu-ray, Early Perry Mason 2012-11-18T01:53:01Z Isabella Bird, a 19th-century Englishwoman who went from sickly spinster to globe-trotting travel writer. 7 of the most amazing women you’ve never heard of 2014-01-20T20:00:00Z “Both her detectives are outsiders, they’re strangers. One is a spinster, one is a refugee.” Shedunnit – how Agatha Christie became cinema hot property 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z "A spinster, bespectacled, sensible shoes, skin and lashes of a pallor that suggested dim rooms and silence." The Professor of Poetry by Grace McCleen – review 2013-07-28T07:30:00Z Considered spinsters back East, both Curtis and Stanley married younger men out West. 'Ladies of the Canyons' tells the story of extraordinary women who blossomed in the Southwest 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z For the Lowells, it turns out, are a fascinating bunch: spinsters, ministers, lawyers, entrepreneurs, factory builders, poets, college presidents and soldiers. Review | Meet America’s most extraordinary family: The Lowells 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z After the dictatorship ended in 1990, some scholars began to question her portrayal as a saintly spinster. Move Over, Pablo Neruda. Young Chileans Have a New Favorite Poet. 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z On the surface, it’s a completely innocent book by the woman who wrote “Anne of Green Gables,” about a 29-year-old spinster named Valancy. Why Missy Foreman-Greenwald of "Big Mouth" is one of the most relatable characters on television 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z In decades past, they were lonely spinsters, quietly languishing in their studio apartments. Stop telling single women they’re fabulous! 2014-02-05T13:00:00Z A Georgian was pleased that “The Book of Negro Humor” had been recorded but wondered why the reader was “some elderly white spinster who probably wears pince-nez or bifocals.” Audiobooks were set to destroy books — but instead, they opened a new world 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z There she sits, an elderly spinster, sweet, placid, so you'd think. Natalie Haynes's guide to TV detectives: #13 – Miss Marple 2012-07-09T14:19:10Z Mirren compared the widow Winchester, whom she called “fascinating,” to jilted spinster Miss Haversham from Charles Dickens’ “Great Expectations,” a literary character famous for being an eccentric, distraught recluse who lives in the past. Helen Mirren delves into the haunted mystery of 'Winchester' 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z "Look at me," she declares to her spinster daughters in one scene. She is very brown: "Queen Charlotte" explains how the integrated ton was won, but what is left out? 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z And the women range from self-willed wives to beautiful stunt motorcyclists to knitting spinsters. New in sci fi, fantasy and horror: titles by Joan Aiken, Jennifer McMahon and Tin House 2011-08-20T18:05:54Z During the early modern period in Europe, countless 'witches' were burned at the stake or hanged after being denounced by neighbours, often for no greater crime than being middle-aged spinsters. Why are we in love with witches? 2012-07-05T14:18:20Z All of the archetypes present themselves for roll call: the two-bit hustlers, the hard-knuckled mafiosos, the spinsters in their smocks, the poor and the beaten down, the unconscionably rich. Bruce Gilden’s Gritty Vision of a Lost New York 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z I’m like one of those crazy spinster ladies who listen to the radio at night. Martha Plimpton Can’t Say Enough About Pamela Adlon, the Tate Modern and Abortion Rights 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z People have long imagined Dickinson as a timid, reclusive spinster dressed in white, but “Dickinson” gives us a rebellious young woman who head-bangs in hoop skirts, challenges gender norms and undermines her elders. Perspective | ‘Dickinson’ is another example of pop culture trying to liberate Emily Dickinson 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z “It’s more a designation to describe a spinster figure, a dreary single woman.” Let?s Hear It for Aunthood 2011-09-17T01:51:44Z Her first Broadway role was a spinster schoolteacher in “Picnic” in 1953. Elizabeth Wilson, a Character Actress of Stage, Screen and TV, Dies at 94 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z In “My Lady Sweet, Arise,” a music-loving spinster suddenly begins to sing like a bird all day long. Michael Dirda selects three magical books 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z She was, by her own description, a “literary spinster”. Being Jo March: Little Women finally has an ending grown women deserve | Josephine Tovey 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z Andrew sought a mother for his children, and Abby, considered a spinster at 37, longed to leave her crowded home. An Enthralling New Look at the Mystery of Lizzie Borden 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z Written largely from Hadley's vantage point, we share her excitement when, after years spent nursing her ill mother, this lonely 28-year old "spinster" meets the dashing freelance journalist Hemingway through friends. Paula McLain's 'The Paris Wife': the first and best of Ernest Hemingway's wives 2011-03-26T01:03:49Z One of the most underrated aspects of Jane Austen’s writing — devoted Janeites will no doubt agree — lies in how that English spinster dealt with the damaged. Review | ‘The Jane Austen Society’ will especially delight the kinds of Austen fans who can recite ‘Persuasion’ from memory 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z The Scottish spinster sprang to world prominence last year after winning a standing ovation on TV's "Britain's Got Talent" and her performance became an overnight internet hit. Susan Boyle expected to sing for the Pope 2010-06-10T12:52:00Z No one wants to end up like Bridget Jones, that vodka-slurping poster child for miserable spinsters. Self-partnered: the sudden, surprising rise of the single positivity movement 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Strings shriek, too, and the camera tilts with nausea: the show erupts, briefly and amusingly, from an unpersuasive love story into a spinster’s personal horror film. Amazon’s New “Vanity Fair” Turns Becky Sharp Into an Endearing, Plucky Go-Getter 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z The period drama sees her play a small-town southern spinster who irks her community after taking a liking to a new Japanese American resident. Sundance 2016: which films are set to reverse festival's box office flameout? 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z “If you end your delightful book with your heroine a spinster, no one will buy it,” the publisher says. Being Jo March: Little Women finally has an ending grown women deserve | Josephine Tovey 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z George’s old friends are now alcoholics and misers; his wife is a lonely librarian; his mother is the spinster proprietor of a boarding house. “It’s a Wonderful Life”: Occupy Bedford Falls! 2012-12-08T00:30:00Z Its intent felt too consciously Cosmo, as if it needed to convince its audience not to worry, that this isn’t your spinster aunt’s hairy-legged version of feminism, oh no! “The Bold Type,” “Dietland” and fashion: The feminist army is assembling (literally) in t... 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z If the "spinster wish" is, at its core, a longing to be a "human being who inhabits but isn't limited by her gender," then it's a wish we all share. In 'Spinster,' Kate Bolick explores making a life of her own 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Like all those other old spinsters whose bodies are looked at as the standard of beauty for most of America, right? Kim Kardashian gets engaged, America breathes sigh of relief 2011-05-25T15:50:00Z The art dealer's mother has just recently died, his spinster sister has grown increasingly paranoid, and one Irish serving boy has even begun to behave in a sullenly provocative manner. 'The House of Silk': a long-buried Sherlock Holmes mystery 2011-12-15T20:52:00Z “I’d rather be a free spinster and paddle my own canoe,” she wrote. ‘Little Women’ Marches On: Fans Celebrate the Novel’s 150th Anniversary 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z "Why is spinster somehow negative? I really think it's great." Margaret Cho's message to drag show haters: "Take equal rights like a man" 2023-03-04T05:00:00Z Sandy Dennis is a spinster who finds this young man, perhaps a hustler, in the park, and she takes him home and ends up keeping him locked up in her bedroom. Bruce LaBruce on 'Virginia Woolf' and Other Influences 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z For a self-described “spinster” who ignored social invitations, Ms. Brookner was suddenly propelled into a new realm of literary renown with which she was never entirely comfortable. Anita Brookner, Booker Prize-winning author of ruminative novels, dies at 87 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Some of Emily’s letters imply romance with men as well, but few Dickinson experts view her as simply a straight spinster. Perspective | ‘Dickinson’ is another example of pop culture trying to liberate Emily Dickinson 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z Fukunaga in his turn makes it clear that Jane Eyre is about a woman whose desires demand gratification, not a spinster reconciled to solitude. The classics revisited 2011-08-20T23:04:02Z Who, besides spinsters, tweedy academics and devotees of “Masterpiece Mystery” and Malice Domestic would bother with them? ‘The Derek Smith Omnibus,’ by Derek Howe Smith She is a white Unitarian activist spinster from a good family in Brooklyn. Theater Review: ‘Dr. Du Bois and Miss Ovington,’ From the New Federal Theater 2014-01-31T22:37:49Z There’s the confirmed rake, the bluestocking spinster, the runaway bride, the runaway dog. Love Notes 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z The little girl grows up worshipping her adopted mother and dismissing her real mother as nothing but a cranky spinster. Edmund White's top 10 New York books 2011-01-12T12:24:11Z Though divorced and childless, Webster is not a Havisham spinster – putting herself “out there” comes naturally. Can loneliness be cured with a pill? Scientists are now asking the question 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z It just sounds wrong to me, as if we’re a couple of old spinsters who have decided to be “companions” and live together with lots of cats. Our gay wedding: ‘Does one of us have to play the groom?’ 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z Bishop Enoch, his long locks tucked into a spinster’s hairnet, has the gift of turning the Gospel into thrilling oratory; his sermons are poems on fire. Red Hook Summer: Spike Lee Returns to His Brooklyn Roots 2012-08-09T20:25:27Z As for the other, she’ll do anything she can to humiliate her spinster daughter before others if she thinks it will hold the young’un in her thrall. Critic’s Notebook: Watching ‘Mother Courage’ and ‘Beauty Queen of Leenane’ 2013-08-19T21:54:46Z Laura García Lorca joked that she felt like Doña Rosita, the spinster heroine of one of her uncle’s plays, who waits years for a fiancé who never returns. Honoring García Lorca’s Genius: A Bout Over a $22 Million Archive 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z At 25 — a hopeless spinster! — she’s constantly reminded that “no man of note wants an unattractive wife.” Review | ‘The Four Winds’ is Kristin Hannah’s next inevitable bestseller. Don’t forget the tissues. 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z By providing a historical and literary perspective on the single woman, she reclaims the word “spinster” and brings dignity and gravitas to a subject that is often reduced to gags about drunk-dialing and shoe-shopping. I choose to be single 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Eliot fell in love with the married critic George Henry Lewes when she was 32, a hopeless spinster by the standards of the day. Hadley Freeman's 10 awesome women: from Katharine Hepburn to Miss Piggy 2013-04-22T15:38:00Z The spinster Gertrude Saville, living in her brother's house without any possessions to call her own, produced a heartbreaking diary of her powerless existence. TV review: At Home With the Georgians 2010-12-03T08:00:00Z First there are the more traditional travellers: the unconventional spinster, the ingénue flung into a foreign setting, the formidable chaperone – each of these provides some of the most engaging female characters in fiction. Jennie Rooney's top 10 women travellers in fiction 2010-06-23T12:23:00Z The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore In 1950s Belfast, the lonely spinster of the title is taken to the cinema on a date. Ten of the best visits to the cinema 2010-05-14T23:32:00Z Among the characters in “Mercury” are a trio of rowdy, fatalistic Italian spinsters, Maria’s great-aunts, whose house is full of plastic figurines of saints who are expected to answer their prayers or face their wrath. Using Fiction to Summon the Glittering, Golden Age of Hollywood 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z They are no longer young, yet not terribly old, although in that era, a 31-year-old unmarried woman like Sally was considered a hopeless spinster. Review: 'Talley's Folly' is a charming revival 2013-03-06T02:44:09Z Her last movie role was as the elderly spinster nanny to Russell Brand's playboy millionaire in "Arthur." Helen Mirren has the sexiest body on planet 2011-08-03T16:35:00Z All of this, riveting in itself, underlines the breadth of Austen's experience of life; spinsters in vicarages know more of the human condition at first hand than might be imagined. The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne – review 2013-02-08T07:00:02Z “The secretary of agriculture responded to ‘Silent Spring’ by asking ‘why a spinster with no children was so concerned about genetics,’” Shapland writes. What did 'Oppenheimer' leave out of the frame? This book of essays will help you refocus 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z Miss Havisham, a wealthy spinster who is raising Estella as she conspires to meddle in Pip’s life, famously wears a wedding dress she hasn’t taken off since being left at the altar years before. Darkness and dirt reign in this version of 'Great Expectations' 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z “We were both in our early forties, and neither of us had been married, which made me a spinster and him a catch.” Review | 10 award-winning short story collections worth reading 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z They can be summed up briefly: the ne’er-do-well son, the nosy spinster, the bitter ignored daughter, the bullying father. Perspective | Miss Marple is Agatha Christie’s best character. A new book reminds us why. 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Eight years later, she’s a regretful spinster with money problems; he’s a successful, rich naval officer. Jane Austen’s ‘Persuasion’ is having a moment. It’s about time. 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z ‘Hush ... Hush, Sweet Charlotte’ Bette Davis plays the titular Southern spinster in this twisted 1964 psychological thriller directed by Robert Aldrich. Classic movies in SoCal: ‘Star Trek II,’ Disney’s ‘Fantasia,’ ‘Mommie Dearest’ and more 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z They saw women as especially susceptible to his allure, just as Eve had been vulnerable in the Garden of Eden, and they particularly suspected widows and spinsters. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z The newspaper had previously described Ms. Maginnis as a “38-year-old spinster” and “a slender, intense woman with the eyes of a zealot.” Patricia Maginnis, trailblazing abortion rights activist, dies at 93 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z She is maybe one of Christie’s few real and fleshed-out characters: the consummate English spinster, living in the typical English village, with its gossip and intrigues. Perspective | Miss Marple is Agatha Christie’s best character. A new book reminds us why. 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z A New England spinster marries a younger man who has mental problems and another wife. Movies on TV this week: 'My Fair Lady'; 'Marry Poppins' 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z An old spinster lies to save a nightclub gambler accused of killing a mobster. Movies on TV this week, Sept. 13: 'The Silence of the Lambs' 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z And I’ve always loved that genre of “Murder, She Wrote” and been a sucker for a spinster character — and in real life loved my relatives who were those older kind of eccentric little kookballs. How do you make a bite-sized 'Murder, She Wrote'? Ask Paula Pell 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z In it, David, a young attorney, drafts a will for Emily, an elderly spinster. Did you know? This Columbus city official is also an author 2020-06-07T04:00:00Z The big advantage of an elderly spinster is that she is invisible. Perspective | Miss Marple is Agatha Christie’s best character. A new book reminds us why. 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z My granny remembers the “two spinsters” who lived next door to her had one like this – finally completed by the evacuee who came to stay during the war. Picking up the pieces: the great jigsaw revival 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z A British spinster poses as her niece to woo an ex-suitor back from the Napoleonic wars. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, May 17, 2020 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z Words such as “spinster” and “frigid” are to be specifically labelled as derogatory, because they can no longer be used in a neutral way without a negative implication. No more 'nagging wives': how Oxford Dictionaries is cleaning up sexist language 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z Ida Tarbell resolved to be free; it followed, in her mind, that she “must be a spinster.” Review | America needed their journalism; they needed each other 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z An alleged war hero, a spinster and other long-term guests interact at a seaside British resort. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, Feb. 2, 2020 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z A blind Englishwoman’s spinster daughter hides a killer handyman at their gothic mansion. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z In her own life, however, the author remained a self-proclaimed spinster. In the snow with Greta Gerwig at the places that inspired 'Little Women' 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z This flagrantly desirous Emily reflects our sex-positive sensibilities: On some level, it’s hard for us to imagine such audacious, powerfully charismatic art being made by a repressed spinster. Perspective | We keep revising our idea of Emily Dickinson. We may never get her right. 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z A Boston spinster finds a lover after the counsel of a kind psychiatrist brings her out of her frumpy shell. Movies on TV this week: 'GoodFellas' on AMC and more 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z Amelia van Zandt a beautiful yet icy spinster, works as a warden at a female prison, where she continually inflicts unjustly harsh punishments on the inmates. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, Oct. 27, 2019 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Ms. Miller, who never married and leaves no immediate survivors, once quipped that she was “the last of the closet queens, a spinster.” Norma Miller, Lindy Hop dancer known as the ‘Queen of Swing,’ dies at 99 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z Finau is not a spinster, and coming out of the heat of battle, perhaps he truly believed that. Masters 2019: When the world wants you to lose - Golf Digest 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z “Sometimes you’d get this really great painting and all you’d find is, ‘She was a teacher, she lived with her parents and she was a spinster,’” she tells me. Essential Arts: Interpreting John Cage, Lincoln Jones' 'Burlesque,' a fast-food play and Lari Pittman - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z “And sometimes you’d get this really great painting and all you’d find is, ‘She was a teacher, she lived with her parents and she was a spinster.’” The conservator who is bringing lost stories of California's pioneering female artists to light - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z A spinster schoolteacher tries to cultivate a gifted student among illiterate miners in 1890s Wales. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, Oct. 27, 2019 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Played by Wilson in the movie’s most memorable performance, Caroline is a figure of serene defiance, calmly and sometimes joyously pushing back against society’s dismissal of her as a hopeless spinster. Review: ‘The Little Stranger’ is a 1940s English ghost story that finds the virtue in ambiguity 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z For example, Alcott wanted her main character Jo to be a “literary spinster,” but finally caved to pressure from the publishers and readers to marry her off. The outsize influence of ‘Little Women’ endures, 150 years later 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z “I’d rather be a free spinster and paddle my own canoe,” as she put it. How “Little Women” Got Big 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z Alcott never married, saying she’d “rather be a free spinster and paddle my own canoe.” Why it's a perfect time for Greta Gerwig's version of 'Little Women' 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z So, were her parents being welcoming out of relief that their daughter wouldn’t become a spinster or out of surprise that she, as her friends pointed out, had got lucky? “Omakase” 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z While she hopes that he’ll rescue her from becoming a spinster, he’s trying to figure out how to find the right parts for another of his creations. 18 new science fiction and fantasy books to read this February 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z Alcott herself never married, writing, “I’d rather be a free spinster and paddle my own canoe.” The outsize influence of ‘Little Women’ endures, 150 years later 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z The specter of Dickens’s ranting spinster — spurned and embittered in her crumbling wedding dress, plotting her elaborate revenge — casts a long shadow over every woman who dares to get mad. I Used to Insist I Didn’t Get Angry. Not Anymore. 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z It ridiculed one female reporter as a “star spinster columnist” and mentioned women’s “anger lines” and fat ankles. Perspective | The two expat bros who terrorized women correspondents in Moscow 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z "This is the nature of the debate on things this big, like tax reform," Ryan said."You've got pundits and spinsters and all of this spinmeisters out there, you know, confusing the public." Sen. Marco Rubio becomes latest obstacle to GOP tax bill, complicating next week's vote – LA Times 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z Forster, diagnosing “the effects of weakness,” leaned to the latter view: “We realize with pain that we are listening to a slightly tiresome spinster.” Reading Jane Austen’s Final, Unfinished Novel 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z "Are you a spinster?!" reads one billboard promoting Sunny cooking oil, alongside a picture of a young woman looking down in resignation while several fingers point at her from the back. Egypt ad campaign backfires over 'spinster' billboards - BBC News 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z The other 24 pieces are brightly lacquered sketches trimmed to New Yorker specifications—deadpan, passionless portraits of cruel children, quietly miserable spinsters, clumsy middle-class drifters, city people lonely in the country. This Is What 1950s and '60s Critics Said About Shirley Jackson's Work 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Mrs Morgan ran it with her daughters, who were elderly spinsters. Who inspired Roald Dahl's Mrs Pratchett character? - BBC News 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z A man is a “bachelor” but a woman is a “spinster”. Why we need to lose biased words like 'mistress' for good | Jessica Valenti 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Whenever it was she met Bumpa, she would have been considered a spinster with a questionable past, whatever the distinction conferred by her heritage. What Happened to Worcester? 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z There are also plenty of women buried with their parents on something once called the “spinster policy” — women who were “never married” and “childless”. Deny her 95-year-old grandma burial at Arlington National Cemetery? No way. 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z That same year, the professional spinster made headlines when she married a wealthy widower named Thomas Roulston, in what looked like an admission of defeat and a betrayal of her faithful readers. The Writer Who Taught American Women How to Live Alone 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z Men are bachelors – a word that conjures up images of a pre-Amal George Clooney – while women are old maids and spinsters. Single ladies have increasing impact in a culture that still dismisses them | Jessica Valenti 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z “Listen, girls, there’s nothing left in my orchard except firewood,” Ms. Suleiman said, using a Palestinian saying for being a spinster. In Gaza, Bicycles Are a Battleground for Women Who Dare to Ride 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z Master for mistress; sir for madam; governor for governess; bachelor for spinster; courtier for courtesan – whereas the male list speaks of power and high status, the female list has a very different set of connotations. Eight words that reveal the sexism at the heart of the English language | David Shariatmadari 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z The arrival of Philip Smith, a black man, brought out Rigsby's prejudices, while he yearned for spinster Ruth Jones. The return of the live-in lodger - BBC News 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z Adapted by Trigiani from her popular novel, "Big Stone Gap" stars Ashley Judd as Ave Maria, the Appalachian coal town's self-proclaimed spinster who works in her family's pharmacy and directs the town's annual outdoor play. Whoopi Goldberg talks about plum role in 'Big Stone Gap' 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z In a coal-mining town deep in the Appalachian Mountains, a self-proclaimed spinster learns of a long-buried secret that changes her life. Films being released from September through November 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z The compartments became associated with stereotypical old-fashioned spinsters, with young women especially avoiding them. The Problem With Ladies-Only Rail Carriages 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z But instead of seeing singleness as a problem, Bolick’s book sets out to reclaim the word “spinster” from the “lonely old, frigid cat lady”. Text and the city: writers in New York remain fascinated by its storied past 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z I imagine people must be wondering if I am a lonely spinster or trying hard to get lucky when I breathe deeply and say to the waiter: "Table for one, please?" Why solo dining can be tough for women in Delhi - BBC News 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z A battle-scarred soldier and a spinster arrange a marriage. Washington Post Bestsellers June 21, 2014 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z Liberal critics of the anti-Communist crusade called her a neurotic spinster. The Tale of the Red Queen, Communist Double Agent 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z A boyfriend leaves and she writes: “Ah, finally. . . . back to my little spinster ways.” A spinster, and proud of it 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z It explores what she calls her “spinster wish”, a longstanding fantasy of being alone, free to retreat into a cocoon between forays out into the crowd. Text and the city: writers in New York remain fascinated by its storied past 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z These are well-known spinsters whom no one trusts, and endear precisely zero people to Hillary Clinton. Clinton confidant Lanny Davis flips out on MSNBC over Hillary emails 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z Despite being only 22 years old, she describes her occupation on the form as “spinster”. The Joyful, Gossipy and Absurd Private Life of Virginia Woolf 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z It was a responsibility that she forever shouldered, and one that probably kept her from marrying until she was in her 30s, a spinster by the standards of the day. A Young Private, Killed in World War II, Still Leaps Off the Page 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z A month later, she catalogues “a long, perfect spinster wish of a Sunday, read all day, took two naps.” A spinster, and proud of it 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z In “The Homesman,” Mary Bee and Briggs travel across the plains, a pious spinster and an ornery rascal towing madness across the dangerous open range. Review: ‘Homesman’ reverses the Western’s course 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z Mary Bee is a spinster, plain of speech and mien, who runs her own farmstead. “Foxcatcher” and “The Homesman” Reviews 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z A single woman of a certain age – a spinster – is more alarming still. India Knight: ‘Chick lit is in its death throes’ 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z When a colleague described “free-flying spinsters” as a “fringe on the garment of life,” Bates, then 53, answered: “I always thought the fringe had the best of it.” When Women Become Men at Wellesley 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z They would ask me how old I was, why I wasn’t married and tell me that I should find a husband before I became a spinster. What It's Like Being A Woman In Silicon Valley 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z Those financial rights could be enjoyed, however, by widows and spinsters. Women's rights and their money: a timeline from Cleopatra to Lilly Ledbetter 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z Every billboard, every magazine, every acquaintance, every romantic comedy is asking me to pick a mould to pour myself into: hopeless romantic, hedonistic bachelor or desperate spinster. The trouble with being 40 and single 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z The excellent news is that, after a long period of absence, spinsters are back. India Knight: ‘Chick lit is in its death throes’ 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z Ramona Streit grew up in a traditional Hispanic household in Southern California and got married at 19 because her family worried she would “be a spinster,” she says. For Minority Women in Business, Social Capital Counts as Much as Financial Capital 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z In The Woman Upstairs, Messud flips the archetype of the friendly, unassuming spinster on its head, creating an angry woman who’s simply tired of being ignored. These Are the Female Authors You Should Be Reading 2014-04-16T12:00:49Z On Tuesday, the state-controlled North Korean newspaper Rodong Sinmun scoffed at Ms. Park’s speech, calling the unmarried South Korean leader an “eccentric old spinster” and “a frog in a well.” After Trading Fire, North and South Korea Trade Insults 2014-04-01T07:42:08Z The truth is I am at an awkward age, caught between hopeless romantic, hedonistic bachelor and desperate spinster. The trouble with being 40 and single 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z The costume is wrong and the image creates a myth Austen was a demure spinster and not a deep-thinking author. Jane Austen banknote 'airbrushed' 2013-10-30T10:16:53Z I am seeing divorced or widowed women and women in their spinster years, wanting to become co-wives. Britain's Part-Time Wives 2013-08-05T08:45:00Z I choose to be a spinster- meaning I live alone and I am not seeking a partner. Readers' stories of being single 2012-11-13T11:30:10Z But Google "male spinster" and there is much bother at the term. Why are people so mean to single people? 2012-11-07T00:57:04Z She was accused of being a communist sympathizer and dismissed as a spinster with an affinity for cats. Green Blog: Remembering 'Silent Spring' 2012-09-21T20:39:46Z Rather as the temperamental spinster aunt in the grand old bedroom under the family house's attic, whom we rather love despite her insistence that we paint the whole house lilac - which we won't even consider. Britain and the EU: Some ideas for improving Britain's relations with Europe. Why they may not work 2012-06-01T16:14:58Z They say I can end up a spinster. Euro 2012: Russia – the secrets behind the players 2012-05-30T13:00:02Z Apparently forgetting in the excitement of the hour that she herself was an old spinster, she spoke with extreme confidence of all the mysteries of the marriage state. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z Some distance north of the Colosseum are St. Katharine’s Hospital and Chapel—a very luxurious provision for ‘six poor bachelors and six poor spinsters.’ Collins' Illustrated Guide to London and Neighbourhood 2012-04-06T02:00:29.250Z No! they would obey the "choice spirits" placed over them, who in turn would not consult spinsters and weavers, but take counsel from their leader what next they shall do. The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 2012-04-05T02:00:39.100Z She had seen two of her father's sisters, faded spinsters, worshipping the family pride which had blighted them. Mitchelhurst Place, Vol. I (of 2) A Novel 2012-04-03T02:00:33.630Z Now it is a complicated process explaining to two aged New England spinsters on a lonely road at nine o'clock of a stormy night what your errand is, especially when you haven't any. Immortal Youth A Study in the Will to Create 2012-04-03T02:00:30.247Z Very soon now October would be here—and on the first day of October the church bells were to ring for Enid Thompson, spinster, of this parish. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z Sir Joseph attended accordingly; and the cause being opened, the judge demanded whether he was to entitle those ladies by the denomination of spinsters. The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society 2012-03-30T02:00:17.867Z "I am not sure that it would be proper," the spinster demurred. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z I publish the banns of marriage between James —, bachelor, and Mary Ann —, spinster, both of this parish. Edward Hoare, M.A. A record of his life based upon a brief autobiography 2012-03-28T02:00:25.040Z My company, fortunately, consisted of three Scotch spinsters, who would try any precipice of the Jura, I think, if there were a lover at the bottom. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z They had brought one of their daughters with them—a spinster of uncertain age in a tailor-made gown and a masculine collar. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z A young girl, Nest, in London, falls in with a fiftyish spinster with a reputation for aiding young and pretty girls who also have talent. Checklist A complete, cumulative Checklist of lesbian, variant and homosexual fiction, in English or available in English translation, with supplements of related material, for the use of collectors, students and librarians. 2012-03-19T02:00:24.597Z On February 26, 1704/5 Halsy purchased from Rebecca Halsey, the spinster daughter of James, her share in the house and land of her late father on North Street between Sun Court and Fleet Street. Early American Scientific Instruments and Their Makers 2012-03-15T02:00:31.610Z In this case he could not imagine what effect his queer legacy would have upon Sade Cooper, the comely, capable spinster of his dreams. Travelers Five Along Life's Highway 2012-03-11T03:00:12.927Z They were both elderly spinsters of the type that looks older than it really is, yet tries to seem younger. The Dorrance Domain 2012-03-10T03:00:14.767Z She was a spinster of thirty-six—tall and thin, with large bones. Horace Chase 2012-03-08T03:00:09.693Z The story of a neurotic spinster’s half-realised passion for a woman friend. Checklist A complete, cumulative Checklist of lesbian, variant and homosexual fiction, in English or available in English translation, with supplements of related material, for the use of collectors, students and librarians. 2012-03-19T02:00:24.597Z Ffook, women can vote as occupiers and not as owners, they are, whether spinsters or wives, eligible to be parish councillors. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z A tall meagre spinster, a weak replica of the Squire, she came of generations of women who had been ruled by their men and trained to take the second place. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z The incongruity of these middle aged and far from beautiful spinsters, trailing around soft exquisite robes of dainty coloring, and exquisitely made, afforded much scope for wonderment and curiosity wherever they went. The Dorrance Domain 2012-03-10T03:00:14.767Z Southern belles, frustrated spinsters, power-hungry TV execs, nuns, clergymen and even kings and queens. How to win an Oscar 2012-02-25T01:37:30Z One peculiarity I have noticed is that of calling spinsters, of whatever age, "girls." Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z Had Edith sought a confidante merely for the sake of easing her heart, it is likely that it was to this good old spinster that she would have turned. The Lucky Piece A Tale of the North Woods 2012-02-13T03:00:18.927Z His black silk dress and mittens were lovely—he looked really a prim old spinster and managed his skirts so well. Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 2012-02-12T03:00:13.210Z Positive details of this lady's past were lacking, although the gossip of a long line of attenuated spinsters had evolved a rich apocrypha. Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z "You put too difficult questions for a poor spinster to answer, Mr. Belfield." Second String 2012-02-11T03:03:54.390Z Had the feminine eye of this serious spinster discovered what he himself had not? For the Major A Novelette 2012-02-10T03:00:17.550Z To the spinster outside the nunnery Spain has little to offer. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z Indeed, she was as prim and “old-maidish” as any spinster lady possibly could be. The Corner House Girls How they moved to Milton, what they found, and what they did 2012-02-03T03:00:26.090Z There'd be a dozen more if I gave them a chance, but instead of that I'm going with you to Chicago to live and die a spinster with an unawakened soul. Green Stockings A Comedy in Three Acts 2012-01-28T03:00:24.297Z "I'm very thankful, very thankful," cried the spinster. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z But we can scarcely apply to young married women and their near female connections, also married, passages like these, that relate to young spinsters. The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition 2012-01-04T03:00:37.750Z Since Andalusia expresses the theory of counterparts by saying, "Every one has somewhere in the world his half orange," the spinster can hardly hope for a well-rounded life. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z Mrs. Bean, though claiming to know the people very well, had told the spinster lady very little about them. The Corner House Girls How they moved to Milton, what they found, and what they did 2012-02-03T03:00:26.090Z I like my present spinster life very well—I should like it better, I think, if it were in the country; but town or country, I don't think I should ever like a married life. Checkmate 2012-01-03T03:00:10.887Z It was the reflection of the sainted spinster, Hilda Slaighter, in the widow's mirror; a reflection with a bonnet fallen backwards, and to it attached a thick rope of grey-brown hair. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z What harm a spinster of forty-eight could do by staying with Lady Holdernesse at Sion, and thence moving to Kensington, and being undecided as to her plans, it is not easy to determine. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z It is amusing to see how fearlessly a matron of eighteen sallies forth alone, while many Madrid spinsters of fifty would not go a block unattended. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z A, an unsophisticated young spinster, finding herself alone in the residence of B, an eligible bachelor acquaintance, notices upon B's dining-room table a letter in B's handwriting, addressed to herself and stamped for post. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z The spinsters of England were carrying on the same operation as the spinsters of India. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z George would be coming about seven; and the spinster showed no signs of departure; and Leslie might arrive at any moment. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z Mary, the youngest, seems to have been a spinster of no striking qualities. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z To support himself he devoted his time to the teaching of Spanish, in which occupation he made the acquaintance of a middle-aged spinster named Meunier. The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe 2011-12-24T03:07:55.507Z He had showers of blessings, and not a few gifts from the servants; but old Scotch Kate was most sincere, for this somewhat aged spinster really loved the lad. From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New 2011-12-13T03:00:26.557Z It felt like two spinsters sitting at home watching time and the world go by us.” Ah, New Year?s Eve and the midnight kiss: Does the night require a date, or will any lips do? 2011-12-12T18:08:01Z The little spinster hurried along, but the black hands of the clouds kept pace and clutched her. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z Rather than become a wife upon those terms she would remain a spinster all her life. A Woman Perfected 2011-12-02T03:00:24.420Z To the same class belongs, perhaps, the ceremony of washing the tomb of Molly Grime, at Glentham, in Lincolnshire, by seven old spinsters, every Good Friday. Curious Church Customs and Cognate Subjects 2011-12-02T03:00:21.090Z His five spinster aunts and the unmarried women he had met that afternoon, hovering hungrily about the little curate, sickened him. Imprudence 2011-12-01T03:00:19.303Z The result was that the ancient spinster at once removed the outraged youth from the sanguinary precincts of Mecklemburg House, and that Mr. Fletcher dismissed the offending usher. A Hero of Romance 2011-11-30T03:00:11.457Z She is a dissolute woman, and Maren gave her out as a spinster; she had a white cap on her head when she came up. Memoirs of Leonora Christina Daughter of Christian IV. of Denmark; Written During Her Imprisonment in the Blue Tower at Copenhagen 1663-1685 2011-11-26T03:00:13.823Z Now I have an excuse for a home of my own, and as the other artistic and literary spinsters have a house, I am going to try the plan, for a winter at least. Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals 2011-11-20T03:00:14.840Z But the spinsters and ladies thought almost the same about the young Siberian. Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales 2011-11-17T03:00:35.327Z She, a solitary spinster, who had never been out of England in her life, made up her mind, after not more than six month's consideration, to go all by herself to Switzerland. Between the Dark and the Daylight 2011-11-11T03:00:37.893Z I have allowed the world to regard me as a spinster, when I was a married woman; as free when I was bound. Miss Arnott's Marriage 2011-11-11T03:00:33Z There were many more women than men—groups of English spinsters doing their sights most thoroughly—the Americans more casual. Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Life January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 2011-11-10T03:00:11.267Z Very sweet and pretty, but I'd rather be a free spinster and paddle my own canoe. Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals 2011-11-20T03:00:14.840Z "No doubt that is the one I am destined to marry," thought a spinster who had been going out for eight years. Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales 2011-11-17T03:00:35.327Z Kitty must not think that it availed a predestined spinster anything that she got engaged; Mr. Jeffries would never marry Kitty. The Story of Louie 2011-10-26T02:00:27.053Z If they see a cat that pleases them, some superannuated spinster will gush over her, making her a pet for a little while. Daisy the autobiography of a cat 2011-10-25T02:00:24.887Z There were very few people in the hotel—the one or two English spinsters of a certain age whom one always meets travelling, and two artists. Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Life January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 2011-11-10T03:00:11.267Z She wrote an article for Mr. B., called "Happy Women," in which she gratified her love of single life by describing the delightful spinsters of her acquaintance. Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals 2011-11-20T03:00:14.840Z "Here we have another rich prospective bride," said a third spinster. Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales 2011-11-17T03:00:35.327Z To have "predestined spinster" written large all over you was bad enough, without being played upon thus and then cast back into spinsterhood after all! The Story of Louie 2011-10-26T02:00:27.053Z The tall, thin spinster, with her smooth gray hair and anxious manner, must have been more than double the age of Ethan's mother. The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z "I used to go while Nicholls was alive, and very convenient it was; but Sir Harry don't want no widders nor single spinsters—only wives of them as has votes." Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z "Happy Women" was the title, and I put in my list all the busy, useful, independent spinsters I know, for liberty is a better husband than love to many of us. Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals 2011-11-20T03:00:14.840Z She was a more fragile sister of that robust, brick-complexioned spinster who used to climb all the Alps in practical but awful garments. Atlantic Classics 2011-10-16T02:00:18.497Z It was not urgently necessary that Louie should have received her in bed, but the recollection of the spinster's peering eyes held some obscure prompting. The Story of Louie 2011-10-26T02:00:27.053Z Numbers 4 and 5, respectively, a wife thoroughly happy in the wedded state, and a radiant, able-bodied spinster haughtily unconcerned about love and lovers, are not to be answered by such a simple gallicism. Search-Light Letters 2011-10-06T02:00:43.957Z Miss Black was older than her brother, and had already acquired that acerb precision which lies in wait with such frequent success for middle-aged spinsters and bachelors. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z Even lonely old spinsters take an interest in babies. Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals 2011-11-20T03:00:14.840Z If the mid-Victorian spinster and the table d'h�te hadn't survived the pace of the new century, what had the automobile done to the innocent village inn? Atlantic Classics 2011-10-16T02:00:18.497Z Of course in your house one never saw a little girl; I was the only spinster and no one was afraid of me. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z Maisie's mother had been an industrious spinster; but, alas! to her sore grief and disappointment, her daughter did not take after her. The Scottish Fairy Book 2011-09-27T02:00:17.480Z And Annette told her of her childhood spent in London under the charge of her three spinster aunts. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z After all, it is doubtful if there be anything better in the world than a spinster—if she be of the right sort. The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains 2011-09-24T02:00:16.927Z But alack for the poor spinster, when it came my turn to be cleaning up! Mind Amongst the Spindles 2011-09-20T02:00:13.677Z Miss Campbell always had a secret contempt for other spinsters. The Motor Maids Across the Continent 2011-09-17T02:00:31.140Z I had a secret presentiment that you would be insensible to the fluttering joys of your sister spinsters. The Wanderer (Volume 3 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:28.670Z There was a Y. W. C. A. in Paris, run by an energetic, well-informed American spinster. Short Stories of the New America Interpreting the America of this age to high school boys and girls 2011-09-17T02:00:26.183Z Of course all spinsters are not of the right sort; few of us are. The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains 2011-09-24T02:00:16.927Z He would not listen a moment to arguments in favor of sending Harriet to the academy, or of employing any other teachers in his district than old Master Smith, and Miss Heath, a superanuated spinster. Mind Amongst the Spindles 2011-09-20T02:00:13.677Z Mr. Stone cast upon the charming little spinster a glance so melting that it was impossible for the Motor Maids to keep from laughing. The Motor Maids Across the Continent 2011-09-17T02:00:31.140Z There’s also Katharine Hepburn’s spinster on holiday in Venice in David Lean’s 1955 film “Summertime.” Christian Siriano rolls out bright pinks, greens and citrus on miles of to-the-floor flounce 2011-09-11T00:11:01Z "Heaven help thee for a considerate spinster!" said the Proprietary with a benignant smile as he raised his hands and shook them sportively towards his sister. Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's 2011-09-11T02:00:10.443Z When this one especially fine spinster was called upon by the Colonel she did not know exactly what to do. The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains 2011-09-24T02:00:16.927Z The sorrows of the spinster were mine and the griefs of the middle-aged. Caught by the Turks 2011-09-09T02:01:01.073Z Was it possible that she, Helen Eustace Campbell, spinster, accustomed to every luxury in life, was about to lie down on the ground and sleep in a far Western, lonely, unprotected spot? The Motor Maids Across the Continent 2011-09-17T02:00:31.140Z Beatrice was a 32-year-old spinster when Sidney Webb, the brainy son of a London hairdresser, proposed they write a book on labor unions together. Webb, Churchill and the Birth of the Welfare State: Sylvia Nasar 2011-09-08T00:22:04Z And, indeed, for the Moresby spinster the chiming of the marriage-peal was as the funeral knell ringing the last rites over the grave of her dead hopes. Coelebs The Love Story of a Bachelor 2011-08-31T02:01:28.960Z He wondered what sort of an old woman she would be, and finally decided that she would develop into an acidulated spinster. The Triumph of Jill 2011-08-31T02:01:25.060Z It may be in some degree owing to this necessity that, ever since Humfrey de Catafalque's diabolical testament first took effect, every maiden of our House has died a spinster.' The Black Poodle And Other Tales 2011-08-30T02:00:37.963Z But somehow, our five spinsters were not deeply interested in these historic homes, and after wandering around the city for another hour, they boarded a small train headed for Salt Lake. The Motor Maids Across the Continent 2011-09-17T02:00:31.140Z Matchmaking was hardly in my line of business, yet no spinster aunt could have taken more interest in the affair than myself. Kitty's Conquest 2011-08-30T02:00:36.270Z "I've a tragic soul in a comic body, Mrs. Varick," said a fat little spinster, with a round moon of a face and a high color, whose name was Miss Upton. The Adventures of a Widow A Novel 2011-08-25T02:00:27.403Z Will you give it to spinsters and leave out the women who bear children to the nation? The Sixth Sense A Novel 2011-08-24T02:00:18.870Z The White Rabbit paid no attention to these changes at first, but led her own contented spinster life. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z There is no one in the world so lonely as a spinster—” Evelyn’s face flushed. The Motor Maids Across the Continent 2011-09-17T02:00:31.140Z Fast bowlers, by contrast, are barely satisfied with a foursome, while most slow-bowlers are spinsters in more ways than one. What has Wayne Rooney got in common with a celebrated giant panda? 2011-08-18T23:06:00Z Perhaps an old inhabitant—an antique spinster or rheumatic grocer—can still remember the pranks of the Wild Man's childhood. Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z Will you give it to married women and leave out the unprotected spinsters? The Sixth Sense A Novel 2011-08-24T02:00:18.870Z Now, this lady was a thin, yellow spinster, with a sharp nose and inquisitive eyes, who saw everything, and gossiped about all she saw. Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy 2011-08-18T02:00:21.810Z An expression of amazement passed over the spinster’s face, followed almost immediately by 299 one of intense amusement and embarrassment. The Motor Maids Across the Continent 2011-09-17T02:00:31.140Z The modest spinster and the bashful bachelor seemed to have sloughed off their former natures. Carolyn of the Corners 2011-08-10T02:00:14.997Z It gets girls engaged, spinsters married, wives tempted, old cronies supplied with gossip; a woman loses her pocketbook in the crowd, a fellow becomes insane during the performance. Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z “If the girl marries before that age, no shiftless man can get it away from her,” had been the spinster’s frank statement in her will. The Heart of Canyon Pass 2011-08-04T02:00:24.083Z She was an elderly spinster from the village who had presided over his domestic concerns since the popadja had departed this life, leaving the pope a widower. For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z But they guessed that the little spinster had received a declaration of love and an offer of marriage. The Motor Maids Across the Continent 2011-09-17T02:00:31.140Z The lady was a spinster, or she would not have talked in that style, but at length she had said all that she wanted, and paused for a reply. Crying for the Light, Vol. 2 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago 2011-07-23T02:00:11.327Z Nevertheless such was the case—a curate was wanted, and wanted very much by the congregation of St. Tickleimpit's—the unblemished spinsters, who called themselves young. Humorous Readings and Recitations In prose and verse 2011-07-20T02:00:16.323Z The warp was made by the cloth and linen manufacturers, and the weft yarns furnished by the woman spinsters throughout the country. Inventions in the Century 2011-07-20T02:00:14.643Z Ah, no," wept the good spinster; "that were nothing since we are used to it! For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z The most bucolic hearts were burnt By Burns' amatory glances; The most suburban spinsters learnt To welcome his abrupt advances; When Burns was on his knee, 'twas said, They wished that they were there instead! More Misrepresentative Men 2011-07-20T02:00:14.390Z Formerly the shop or farm when it passed to the eldest son was burdened with the charge of the spinster sisters, who often would help in the dairy or behind the counter. Household Administration Its Place in the Higher Education of Women 2011-07-20T02:00:13.547Z A walk of two miles was before him, but he did not hurry himself after he had lost sight of the spinsters and the church weathercock. Humorous Readings and Recitations In prose and verse 2011-07-20T02:00:16.323Z And didst thou marry, or art thou Still of the spinster tribe? In the Track of the Bookworm 2011-07-19T02:00:23.543Z Huckins rubbed his hands together in satisfaction at this smile, and sidled up to the simpering spinster with a very propitiatory air. Cynthia Wakeham's Money 2011-07-18T02:00:24.717Z Quite alone in the sisterhood of Hamsun heroines stands Martha Gude, a spinster of forty with white hair and young eyes and a child heart. Knut Hamsun 2011-07-18T02:00:21.927Z The Swipeses, and the Beagles, and Birds, who were very jealous of the sudden elevation of the old spinster, gave her no peace night nor day. The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West 2011-07-12T02:00:33.027Z These spinsters were beyond flattery, so he caricatured them to find which must certainly be rejected as the worst looking. Humorous Readings and Recitations In prose and verse 2011-07-20T02:00:16.323Z The girls had pictured her a middle-aged spinster, having heard she was older than the Professor himself, who seemed a thousand to them. Molly Brown's Freshman Days 2011-07-12T02:00:31.110Z “I fancy it must have been one of those two grim spinsters who have been keeping me supplied with sacred literature.” Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z The other three landed safely and softly on broad backs, but heavy, bony Mary descended in the lap of a cross old spinster bear, who was gossiping with two cronies. Baby Jane's Mission 2011-07-03T02:00:10.693Z The mode of operation is as follows: The spinster is seated on a stool, with a bunch of loose cotton already prepared, in her lap. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 2011-07-02T02:00:11.323Z Seldom less than half-a-dozen spinsters accompanied him; they liked him too much and each other too little to trust him with one alone. Humorous Readings and Recitations In prose and verse 2011-07-20T02:00:16.323Z "The honour of the family?..." said the spinster in an accent of some alarm, employing herself, however, in finding her place again, and then putting a mark in it. The Widow Barnaby Vol. I (of 3) 2011-07-01T02:00:16.980Z "What have we got here?" said the spinster sharply.... The Widow Barnaby Vol. III (of 3) 2011-07-01T02:00:15.707Z Mary descended in the lap of a cross old spinster bear. Baby Jane's Mission 2011-07-03T02:00:10.693Z The men are staying single for much longer than their fathers did, while young spinsters are growing anxious as their golden age seems to fly past. The price of marriage 2011-06-29T16:40:36Z After fifteen years of mental and physical toil, she was a dependent, unskilled in any direction—except as a housekeeper—the spinster adjunct to a family that would not need her. Nobody's Child 2011-06-29T02:00:24.827Z "Then you are now on the very verge of ruin, Mrs. Compton?" said the spinster gravely. The Widow Barnaby Vol. I (of 3) 2011-07-01T02:00:16.980Z This demand was refused, as we have seen, in the harshest manner possible, and the writing this insulting negative was a considerable relief to the spinster's feelings. The Widow Barnaby Vol. III (of 3) 2011-07-01T02:00:15.707Z There would, our artist imagines, be no difficulty in obtaining willing coryph�es among the pew-openers and philanthropic spinsters of the various parishes. Mr. Punch at the Play Humours of Music and the Drama 2011-06-29T02:00:22.990Z Administration of the goods of “Thomasine Turner of York,” who died intestate, was granted by the archbishop’s court to her daughter Mary Turner, spinster, on Dec. 2, 1681. Pope: His Descent and Family Connections Facts and Conjectures 2011-06-29T02:00:22.613Z In nervous young women and, above all, in nervous spinsters beyond forty, disturbances of menstruation consequent upon lack of nutrition are not infrequent. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z The spinster answered this with a look which shewed plainly enough that, however little beauty her pale face could boast, it was by no means deficient in expression. The Widow Barnaby Vol. I (of 3) 2011-07-01T02:00:16.980Z "It was generous of him at such a dreadful moment," said the spinster, her eyes again twinkling through tears.... The Widow Barnaby Vol. III (of 3) 2011-07-01T02:00:15.707Z She knew that it was not Madame Leroux, the manageress, who was responsible for the coming together of a travelling spinster and of a French soldier on leave. The Disturbing Charm 2011-06-17T02:00:21.077Z He can swear out a warrant!” exclaimed the spinster. Harry Watson's High School Days The Rivals of Rivertown 2011-06-16T02:00:20.053Z But, quite apart from the granting or withholding of female suffrage, he desired ardently to see women doing intelligently and thoroughly the work peculiarly their own, whether as matrons or spinsters. The Soul of Susan Yellam 2011-06-16T02:00:19.090Z It was with that kind-hearted but peculiar spinster lady that Ruth had lived previous to being sent to the Red Mill. Ruth Fielding At Sunrise Farm What Became of the Raby Orphans 2011-06-14T02:00:19.177Z "You will receive ninety-seven pounds sixteen and two-pence, Wright," said the spinster, giving her draught. The Widow Barnaby Vol. III (of 3) 2011-07-01T02:00:15.707Z He saw the women born for motherhood, left lonely spinsters for want of charm to attract. The Disturbing Charm 2011-06-17T02:00:21.077Z She would be eternally contrasting the two men, and she would elect to remain a spinster until time had cured her of her love-sickness. The Squire's Daughter 2011-06-13T02:00:25.710Z It was thatched, and on that account beloved by elderly spinsters who drew in water-colour, and frowned upon by sanitary inspectors. The Soul of Susan Yellam 2011-06-16T02:00:19.090Z “You dear child!” was the little spinster’s greeting. Ruth Fielding At Sunrise Farm What Became of the Raby Orphans 2011-06-14T02:00:19.177Z "I do assure you, sir, there is no occasion for it," said the little spinster, with great good-humour, but also with a very evident intention of having her own way.... The Widow Barnaby Vol. III (of 3) 2011-07-01T02:00:15.707Z The woman appears first as a spinster, assuming to be a Miss Grace Conroy, to whom an alleged transfer of an alleged grant was given. Gabriel Conroy 2011-06-08T02:00:19.217Z I think it preposterous that the ambulant spinsters, or otherwise, with whom you foregather on your journeys, should expect you to furnish them with photos of your "celebrated son." The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II 2011-05-22T02:00:17.943Z We usually find that a young lady's spinster friends are partial to the custom; they seem to find particular enjoyment in presenting her with dainty tea-cups, either separately or in sets. Book of Etiquette Volume I 2011-04-28T02:00:13.993Z “Course they asked me if I knowed what became of the family,” said the spinster, with some pride. Ruth Fielding At Sunrise Farm What Became of the Raby Orphans 2011-06-14T02:00:19.177Z The superintending the toilet of Agnes for the party of that evening was a new and very delightful page in the history of the spinster of Compton Basett. The Widow Barnaby Vol. III (of 3) 2011-07-01T02:00:15.707Z “Pretty sure to be,” replied the ancient spinster, who was shrewd at conjectures. The Finger of Fate A Romance 2011-04-21T02:00:43.830Z The wish was no sooner uttered than it was granted by the kind and merciful providence who has a special tenderness for helpless, middle-aged spinsters. The Motor Maids by Rose, Shamrock and Thistle 2011-04-14T02:00:48.987Z A spinster, or as the modern woman likes to call herself, the "bachelor girl," may not use cards engraved merely Miss Gray, unless she is the oldest daughter of a family. Book of Etiquette Volume I 2011-04-28T02:00:13.993Z I know Mr. Steele is interested in the Rabys, and he can communicate with this Canadian lawyer——” 160 “Now! ain’t you a bright girl?” cried the spinster. Ruth Fielding At Sunrise Farm What Became of the Raby Orphans 2011-06-14T02:00:19.177Z So I am, my dear: an old spinster of three score is but a poor confidant in matters of this sort.... The Widow Barnaby Vol. III (of 3) 2011-07-01T02:00:15.707Z The spinster aunt had disappeared previous to the nuptials of Nigel. The Finger of Fate A Romance 2011-04-21T02:00:43.830Z By dint of inquiring at every street corner and much impatient studying of maps, they finally found the house wherein lived this spinster relic of the Campbell family. The Motor Maids by Rose, Shamrock and Thistle 2011-04-14T02:00:48.987Z Of the two," proceeds the garrulous spinster, "men are the most foolish under such circumstances. Gwen Wynn 2011-04-09T02:00:12.230Z He had pictured her as an elderly spinster, somewhat soured by work, misfortune, and family cares, but here was a graceful young girl hardly past eighteen, with a smiling, good-humored face that was quite pretty. The Hills of Refuge A Novel 2011-04-09T02:00:10.530Z Considering how complete a novice our spinster practically was as to everything concerning the vast Babylon called London, she contrived to go where she wished and where she willed with wonderfully few blunders. The Widow Barnaby Vol. III (of 3) 2011-07-01T02:00:15.707Z The spinster, gathering up some crochet-work that she had made a commencement on, sailed out of the room—leaving her brother and nephew to receive the nocturnal caller, who would not be denied. The Finger of Fate A Romance 2011-04-21T02:00:43.830Z “No, no, that he hasn’t,” answered the other spinster smiling. The Motor Maids by Rose, Shamrock and Thistle 2011-04-14T02:00:48.987Z "Ah, indeed," returns the spinster, holding out her fingers to be touched, but, under the plea of being a little invalided, excusing herself from rising. Gwen Wynn 2011-04-09T02:00:12.230Z You are yet a spinster, and have some rights in your own earnings.” All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart 2011-03-31T02:00:16.763Z I had prepared myself for a variety of new occupations," replied the spinster, "but choosing the wardrobe of an elegant young lady was certainly not one of them.... The Widow Barnaby Vol. III (of 3) 2011-07-01T02:00:15.707Z Between that period and marriage the boys and girls reside in the bachelors' and spinsters' quarters respectively. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z We’ll look at the Old Town and the Castle and when the time comes for lunch, we’ll bottle up our spirits and pretend we are just Scotch spinsters and members of the Presbyterian Church. The Motor Maids by Rose, Shamrock and Thistle 2011-04-14T02:00:48.987Z Strange that on such a festive occasion, with its circumstances attendant, the old spinster, hitherto mistress of the mansion, should be happier than the younger one, hereafter to be! Gwen Wynn 2011-04-09T02:00:12.230Z Would you die a spinster with a drying heart, knowing only a spirit love, little better than a dream? Voices; Birth-Marks; The Man and the Elephant 2011-03-28T02:00:27.040Z There was a Y.W.C.A. in Paris, run by an energetic, well-informed American spinster. Home Fires in France 2011-03-22T02:00:24.093Z In comparison how much more honourable and how much less unloved and unloving is the spinster's lot! How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage 2011-03-11T03:00:13.410Z Now while this really very charming spinster had no actual command over me, having quite tangible parents two blocks away, yet I acknowledged an assumed authority felt by every boy and girl in Oldmeadow. Memories of a Musical Life 2011-03-09T03:00:44.777Z I'd be shamed to be like some o' them spinsters down at chapel, always hanging round chapel-yard on the off-chance of a service, to catch that there young Mr. Sargent, the new minister. Anna of the Five Towns 2011-03-08T03:00:38.117Z Talking it over afterward we all confessed that we were seized by the same idea—that this lanky old spinster might be in the game and Barker's illness was a fake. The Black Eagle Mystery 2011-03-07T03:00:12.497Z This somewhat exaggerated production an old lady read aloud with declamatory emphasis, in whom at the first glance one perceived the Englishwoman and the spinster. Boris Lensky 2011-03-07T03:00:10.233Z However, the day arrived and the hour, the unbelieving spinster repaired to the spot, and up drove the two husbands with their wives sitting in state by their sides. How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage 2011-03-11T03:00:13.410Z I assure you he is fully as harmless as a spinster. Memories of a Musical Life 2011-03-09T03:00:44.777Z There was only one other woman, Miss Sarah Vodrey, an aged spinster who kept house for Titus Price and his son, and found her sole diversion in the variety of her religious experiences. Anna of the Five Towns 2011-03-08T03:00:38.117Z With all his might Tom Sedley gazed at the Welsh headlands, without even winking, while he felt the basilisk eye of the old spinster in gray Tweed upon him. The Tenants of Malory Volume 1 of 3 2011-03-04T03:01:04.443Z "She is coming, Mr. Verney," said Miss Sheckleton, speaking low and quietly; but her voice sounded a little strangely, and I think the good-natured spinster was agitated. The Tenants of Malory Volume 2 of 3 2011-03-04T03:00:56.067Z Unlike other spinsters, she neither petted dogs nor cats, but had a most unaccountable mania for fortune-telling, and had been, for years, the seeress and sibyl of the whole neighborhood. Sharing Her Crime 2011-03-04T03:00:54.907Z Perhaps the barren motherhood of the ancient spinster was stirred for once; perhaps the never-known craving for a mother's love moved the younger one. Mr. Claghorn's Daughter 2011-03-03T03:00:53.083Z Are women to receive the same allowance as men, and married women the same as spinsters? Comrades A Story of Social Adventure in California 2011-03-03T03:00:52.327Z "I think, Mr. Verney, it is quite enough if we don't distrust you; and I can assure you we do not," said the spinster. The Tenants of Malory Volume 1 of 3 2011-03-04T03:01:04.443Z So, at last, tired, with a pale, wandering smile, she kissed the kind old spinster, and bid her good night. The Tenants of Malory Volume 2 of 3 2011-03-04T03:00:56.067Z "Miss Hagar must have sat up all last night getting that pretty speech by heart," said Minnette, fixing her mocking black eyes on the face of the spinster. Sharing Her Crime 2011-03-04T03:00:54.907Z "I don't mean Nick that brings the garden sass," and the spinster groaned at the benighted condition of one so ignorant as to fail to recognize a familiar appellation of the enemy of souls. Mr. Claghorn's Daughter 2011-03-03T03:00:53.083Z Next, perhaps, would follow a party of some two or three spinsters travelling alone and as uncertain about their destination as they were of their age. Above the Snow Line 2011-03-03T03:00:49.380Z That old spinster yawned at her leisure, and then said— "He'll never appear again, dear." The Tenants of Malory Volume 1 of 3 2011-03-04T03:01:04.443Z Well, my dear Mrs. Errington," the spinster would retort, bridling and tossing her head sideways, "that could be no reason why his daughter should not have visited the bishop! A Charming Fellow, Volume I (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:28.240Z "People don't cry for nothing, child!" said the aged spinster, severely. Sharing Her Crime 2011-03-04T03:00:54.907Z And the kind-hearted little spinster endured a vast amount of snubbing and patronage from her old enemy on the battle-ground of polite society—Mrs. Errington—with much charitable sweetness. A Charming Fellow, Volume III (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:27.467Z The little spinster turned round quite fluttered, with both her fat little hands extended. A Charming Fellow, Volume II (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:26.237Z Her spinster friend looked on her sad, pale face, gazing dreamily into the forest. The Tenants of Malory Volume 1 of 3 2011-03-04T03:01:04.443Z Since two had just been discarded there remained the prophetic spinster, and each "lady's" delicate little fingers trembled on the "draw." The Storm Centre 2011-03-01T03:00:39.427Z So saying, Louis entered the cottage, shook hands with the hoary spinster, who bade him be a good boy, and not bring back any city habits. Sharing Her Crime 2011-03-04T03:00:54.907Z What can a spinster do in the home? Why Marry? 2011-02-26T03:00:44.307Z Women smiled upon him, ambitious spinsters ogled, and hopeful maidens set their caps to enthrall him. Tom Clark and His Wife Their Double Dreams, And the Curious Things that Befell Them Therein; Being the Rosicrucian's Story 2011-02-25T03:01:12.293Z Staying single into one’s 30s brings the label of spinster and pressure to marry. Egypt Women Clash Over Sharia Law After Tahrir Shows Equality 2011-02-16T11:08:11Z The spinster was startled out of her calm and a look of concern spread over her face. In the Onyx Lobby 2011-02-14T03:00:31.897Z "Gipsy will defend her from the malice of Minnette, and the two girls will be company for each other," said the old man to the spinster. Sharing Her Crime 2011-03-04T03:00:54.907Z Lucy At any rate, the old-fashioned spinster did not stay out of her home all night and get herself compromised, talked about, sent abroad! Why Marry? 2011-02-26T03:00:44.307Z "But I shall be a frightfully long gaunt spinster," she said. The Setons 2011-02-10T03:00:48.400Z “Ah, indeed,” returns the spinster, holding out her fingers to be touched, but, under the plea of being a little invalided, excusing herself from rising. Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 2011-02-09T03:00:45.007Z Now this was a sensitive point with the spinster. In the Onyx Lobby 2011-02-14T03:00:31.897Z "Oh, well, dear," said the spinster, "you must not blame him." Frank Merriwell's Return to Yale 2011-02-03T03:00:10.883Z Two-thirds of the borrowers are labourers; last year about 16 per cent. were widows and spinsters, also a few were mechanics—occasionally professional men—artists, actors, and the like. Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted 2011-02-01T03:00:14.553Z Oh, don't try to discourage me in my spinster path. The Setons 2011-02-10T03:00:48.400Z Strange, that on such a festive occasion, with its circumstances attendant, the old spinster, hitherto mistress of the mansion, should be happier than the younger one, hereafter to be! Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 2011-02-09T03:00:45.007Z "Of course I did!" declared the spinster, haughtily. In the Onyx Lobby 2011-02-14T03:00:31.897Z "Can't help looking at the stuff," said the spinster, readjusting her spectacles and turning her back squarely on Frank and Inza. Frank Merriwell's Return to Yale 2011-02-03T03:00:10.883Z Places were also provided in the upper stories of these houses for the widowers, spinsters and old bachelors who had become too old for work. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z The elderly spinster considered that she had been used and flouted, treated as though she were in her dotage and had lost her authority to engage and dismiss the members of the Fallaray ménage. The Rustle of Silk 2011-01-27T03:00:44.390Z Not the fear of ghosts, nor the fear of robbers troubled the stout-hearted spinster; but the dread of seeing a slight, boyish form, stark and frozen, across her path. The Actress' Daughter A Novel 2011-01-23T03:00:14.117Z Miss Letitia Prall, lessee of the mantelpiece already referred to, was a spinster, who, on dress parade, possessed dignity and poise quite commensurate with the quality of her home. In the Onyx Lobby 2011-02-14T03:00:31.897Z "No, no!" exclaimed the spinster, shaking her head. Frank Merriwell's Return to Yale 2011-02-03T03:00:10.883Z He was prepared for a gaunt, forbidding, elderly spinster. Concerning Belinda 2011-01-21T03:00:12.087Z All this made the elderly spinster angrier than ever. The Rustle of Silk 2011-01-27T03:00:44.390Z "Well," said the spinster, at last, drawing a deep breath, and surveying him from head to foot—"well, young man, what do you want, if a body may ask?" The Actress' Daughter A Novel 2011-01-23T03:00:14.117Z A million to one, those deaf old spinsters can tell you nothing you burn to know. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z The elder was an old spinster of Alsheim, whose face was the colour of the fog, and who lived in the shadow of the church, which she decorated on feast-days. The Children of Alsace Les Oberl?s 2011-01-16T03:00:19.697Z Green balloons, effusive elderly spinsters and the rest, all had their ridiculous side, and Moore was not slow to see it. Thomas Moore 2011-01-14T03:00:51.040Z Lola shook her head and snuggled a little closer, putting her lips to the spinster’s ear. The Rustle of Silk 2011-01-27T03:00:44.390Z With an angry jerk, the door was pulled open, and the long, lean finger of the spinster pointed out. The Actress' Daughter A Novel 2011-01-23T03:00:14.117Z Deaf old spinsters are not used to be the depositaries of such mystical secrecies. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z Well, I am a spinster, and not so young as I have been. Silver Pitchers: and Independence A Centennial Love Story 2011-01-13T03:01:02.190Z So she told her son, when he came back from the church, that she had a spinster who came from a great distance, and said to him: “She has a silk handkerchief just like yours!” Basque Legends With an Essay on the Basque Language 2011-01-11T03:00:33.670Z This perfidy on Rosanette's part seemed to him an abnormal and inexcusable thing; and, infected with this elderly spinster's emotion, he felt a sort of tenderness towards her. Sentimental Education Vol 1 2011-01-04T03:01:07.467Z With a vigorous shake the spinster shook off the clinging hands of poor little Fly, and laid her sprawling on the floor. The Actress' Daughter A Novel 2011-01-23T03:00:14.117Z To call such a house "Home" was like calling such a spinster "Mother." The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business 2011-01-04T03:01:00.723Z "Ah, I see, a spinster?" and the young man returned to his work with greatly abated interest in the subject. Silver Pitchers: and Independence A Centennial Love Story 2011-01-13T03:01:02.190Z And the king’s son said to his mother: “I, too, must see this spinster that you have there.” Basque Legends With an Essay on the Basque Language 2011-01-11T03:00:33.670Z Here's where the elderly spinster reporter got sore. My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life 2011-01-03T03:01:07.697Z One of the things Joan liked best in Effie May was her consistent kindness to these rather tiresome and unimportant spinsters. Why Joan? 2011-01-02T03:00:20.290Z This hardened, commanding spinster, whose beauty was not yet entirely faded, had found favour in the eyes of her employer some ten or fifteen years before, had then been neglected, and was now taking revenge. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z The bright eyes glanced quickly up, and when they fell the snuffer-tray reflected a merry twinkle in them, as their owner answered gravely,— "Yes, a spinster." Silver Pitchers: and Independence A Centennial Love Story 2011-01-13T03:01:02.190Z One of the former is named "Queen Bess," from a fancied resemblance, ruff, farthingale and all, to the royal spinster; another "The Good Samaritan," because a vessel of that name was wrecked there. Nooks and Corners of Cornwall 2010-12-30T03:00:24.033Z I don't know just how it came about, but the spinster scribbler developed a jealous streak and upbraided Will for being ungrateful for all she had done for him. My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life 2011-01-03T03:01:07.697Z There was something piteous to the girl, though humiliating, about the three little spinsters' unflagging interest in the amusements of people who had forgotten, if they ever knew of, the Misses Darcys' existence. Why Joan? 2011-01-02T03:00:20.290Z It was a spinster, who daily devoured several volumes of love affairs, and came every evening for fresh fodder. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z "Why, taking it into my head that Miss Hill must be oldish, and going on in that absurd way about spinsters." Silver Pitchers: and Independence A Centennial Love Story 2011-01-13T03:01:02.190Z “You said that with all the horrified emphasis of a spinster lady.” The Girls of Central High on Track and Field The Champions of the School League 2010-12-27T03:00:15.633Z And do not imagine that I am speaking of blue-stockings, spectacled spinsters disdained of Cupid. Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society 2010-12-20T17:12:16.420Z A ridiculous one," answered Laura; "you remember the old spinster who fell in love with the Apollo Belvedere? Willing to Die 2010-12-20T17:12:00.040Z Climate Camp had its own Twitter feed of course, but anyone browsing through the #climatecamp hashtag would probably not have got the impression of the day's events that the spinsters at Climate Camp wanted. Twitter backfires for Climate Camp 2010-08-25T09:27:00Z It was hastened, perhaps, by Hannah, for that ill-tempered spinster had been ever watchful, and with shrewd insight had seen or guessed all that had transpired. The Girl From Tim's Place The three creditors were mute, and the devout spinster was talkative. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 Reuben spent more than two hours beneath the roof of the too-long-neglected spinster. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 12 She presented me to her old friend, an excellent little spinster with snow-white hair, merry black eyes, and an obstinately black and visible mustache. A Divided Heart and Other Stories It attacks the spinster in the bustling winter streets as she is elbowed by some person, exuberantly a mother, and so arrogantly laden with delicious-looking parcels that she is almost a personal Christmas tree herself. The Sentimental Adventures of Jimmy Bulstrode Yet it was soon evident that the middle-aged English spinster was an accomplished horsewoman. The Red Cross Girls with Pershing to Victory Thus have I got quit of the spinster," said Mr Thriven, "and thus have I too got quit of my creditors. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 The only other spinster I can think of is Miss Mattie Sue, and she was as poor as Job’s turkey and teaching school. The Valiants of Virginia Margery Ainsworth and I will probably be the old, staid spinsters of the class; we have found work enough to fill all our lives. Dolly's College Experiences "Undoubtedly," she said, shaking her head, and becoming every moment more and more like a spinster who kept a stationer's shop in a provincial town. Sinister Street, vol. 2 For one instant she gazed up into the kindly, anxious faces of the spinster sisters; then memory came back with a rush. Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir "The most extraordinary method of proselytising," said the spinster, "that I, who have carried on the trade of mending the species for many years, have ever yet seen." Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 I have made her an old-fashioned spinster like myself. The Master's Violin "I think your work was worth that much myself," said the spinster. Wait and Hope A Plucky Boy's Luck She did not want to return to Curran's to sit in her box-like room, or to look at the two spinsters availing themselves of their holiday in town to play patience in the conservatory. A Bed of Roses Miss Waddle the elder bent over her with tears of compassion and indignation in her kindly, spinster eyes. Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir "When did you lend this copy to Mr Thriven?" inquired Mr Wrench; and the two others fixed their eyes, filled with awful import, on the face of the devout spinster. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 Thirteen respectable spinsters Of the respectable town of Murch, Gave a very respectable party For their eminent orthodox church. The Book of Gud And Mrs. Ellis, who had been married, did not jump at conclusions regarding the heart of man so readily as her spinster friend. Stories That End Well An Adventure in Altruria——Through the Terrors of the Law——The Real Thing——The Old Partisan——Max—Or His Picture——The Stout Miss Hopkins' Bicycle——The Spellbinder——The Object of the Federation——The Little Lonely Girl——The Hero of Company G——A Miracle Play Two spinsters of no age discussed the fog. A Bed of Roses He hurried off, and Mr. Mallory watched from afar the result of the whispered communication which he made to the aged spinster. A Traitor's Wooing Miss Goucher, the housekeeper, proved to be a tall, big-framed spinster, rising fifty; a capable, taciturn woman with a positive talent for minding her own affairs. The Book of Susan A Novel They were told that she was a spinster who lived two miles from the village. Penny Nichols and the Knob Hill Mystery Miss Brent was a tall, angular woman, with spinster shouting from every angle of her uncomely person. Patricia Brent, Spinster And all this is perhaps nothing compared to 'ancient spinster.' Her Royal Highness Woman And the spinster gives over attention to her work, while she taps with her thimble, reflectively, upon the elbow of her chair. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 99, January, 1866 Miss O'Neill, a meritorious if tiresome spinster of no particular age, had at last been waked from heavy and well-earned sleep by persistent knocking at her door. The Book of Susan A Novel He stands there in a circle of pretty girls and strenuous spinsters, looks at them gravely with those great soft eyes, answers their questions, and walks away in absolute unconsciousness. The Day of His Youth Miss Pickett was a delightful spinster of fifty. Shadows of Flames A Novel I have always deemed myself a predestined bachelor, a lover of other people's children and a most timid venturer among spinsters. A Top-Floor Idyl It was quite evident to him, however, that the opposition of Maverick, if unexplained, would only stimulate the spinster to a new zeal in the furtherance of her pet project. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 99, January, 1866 She at once obtained an excellent post, becoming housekeeper for the Misses Carstairs, spinster sisters of incredible age, who lived only two doors from me in a respectable mansion whose portico resembled an Egyptian tomb. The Book of Susan A Novel Franzl, the worthy spinster! pronounced this to be both wrong and untrue, for it is never right to deceive children. Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker In Three Volumes. Vol. III. “No. She is a prosperous spinster, dines the local cricket team once a year, keeps the church going, knows all the poor people, and all the rich in the neighbourhood, and has only one fad.” Bye-Ways “Helen was real kind to him,” remarked the spinster. The Orphan The first was on that remarkable occasion—so long past by—when he had declared his youthful love for Rachel, and feared the opposition which would grow out of the spinster's family pride. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 99, January, 1866 I can testify to a magnificent family red-silk umbrella, under which a gentle little spinster, left alone of many brothers and sisters, used to patter to church on rainy days. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 The spinster had ministered to it, coyly indeed by word, but always by manner and conduct. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 For Claude had come down at that contented spinster's invitation to spend a week with her, bringing Jimmy as chaperon, and this was the very first morning of his visit. Bye-Ways Over by the barn a man was coming out from the horse stalls, with an old leather strap in his hand, when he was suddenly confronted by the stern visage of Miss Matilda Grath, spinster. A Modern Wizard And the Doctor, casting a wary look over his person, as if to protest in favor of an old friend, would go back submissively to comply with the exactions of the precise spinster. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 99, January, 1866 They contain however passages of strong character-drawing, like that of the Porreños, three ancient spinster sisters of a fallen patrician house in 'El Audaz,' which are equal to his later work. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 Adèle felt a tender gratitude toward Reuben, which it seemed to her the boisterous affection of the spinster could never approach. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 He was wondering seriously whether it would be possible for an elderly spinster lady, of countrified morals and rural procedure, to be decadent. Bye-Ways |
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