| 单词 | spinsterhood |
| 例句 | However, the story's rom-com nature, and the realities of the time period dictated that her heroine take action to avoid two worst fates: spinsterhood or marrying Blifil against her will. "Tom Jones" finale highlights all the women he did wrong: "Actions have consequences" 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z Dorothea, a civics teacher determined to avoid the fate of spinsterhood, has given herself to the handsome, genteel principal of her school. Theater: New Light, Long After His Sun Set 2011-02-13T01:06:05Z Leicester may well be the perfect Amanda – a faded antebellum beauty fallen on hard times, whose single, doomed objective is to save her emotionally fragile daughter from spinsterhood. The Glass Menagerie – review 2013-04-04T16:53:00Z Jane spends a whole year there, agonized with longing, and that’s when she begins to see what the alternative to Rochester is: a loveless marriage or spinsterhood. Another Hike on the Moors for ?Jane Eyre? 2011-03-05T04:23:01Z Early on, Fuller “planned for a life of spinsterhood.” ‘She dreamed ‘Out of Africa’ without the plane crashes, syphilis, and Danish accent.’ It turned out otherwise. 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Whatever fantasies I might have harbored about being liberated from my avowed spinsterhood, complete with "late in life" baby were already gone before I could fully acknowledge them. Lena Dunham and I both had hysterectomies, but I reject her grand, unified thesis on infertility 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z So if enduring spinsterhood in a sadness shrine is the best she can hope for, what’s the worst? ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6, Episode 3: His Watch Is Ended 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z Irena is determined to shield the unmarried Sabina from perpetual spinsterhood, and furiously entices disastrous potential suitors to the apartment, where she bakes them sweet desserts, only for Sabina to reject them. Polish Film's Amoral New Wave 2010-06-14T12:30:00Z For this reason, "Spinster" will probably resonate most with women who are most like Bolick and leave others struggling to connect with her version of spinsterhood. In 'Spinster,' Kate Bolick explores making a life of her own 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z As a Mexican woman born in the 1930s, my mother was destined for spinsterhood and tasked with helping her sisters raise their children. My father’s double life 2014-03-24T23:07:00Z One of the sisters grows up to settle uneasily into spinsterhood; the other into marriage and motherhood, also uneasily. ‘Booth’ Pushes an Assassin Off Center Stage 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z He rescued her from a life of spinsterhood and loneliness. My father’s double life 2014-03-24T23:07:00Z At other times, she bemoans her physical plainness and the spinsterhood for which she seems destined. Cynthia Nixon brings Emily Dickinson to life in Terence Davies' 'A Quiet Passion' 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z The fear – the terror, really – of spinsterhood is what drives what we used to call chick lit. India Knight: ‘Chick lit is in its death throes’ 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z In exchange, recipients get a lifetime of legal and social protections related to estate planning, hospital visitation, government benefits and the right to shush judgmental relatives’ insinuations about spinsterhood. For millennial women, ‘the one’ must have a steady job Once upon a time, spinsterhood was the price paid for success and for being considered by men too clever by half. A trio of champion women? Steady on, old girl… 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z Always the Gal Friday, she made frequent, self-deprecating jokes about her spinsterhood and her futile attempts to get Sam the Butcher, her only suitor, to come around to the idea of commitment. Ann B. Davis: For the Bradys — and us latchkey kids — Alice was a saving grace Such a very delightful old maid, with none of the flavor of desiccated spinsterhood. Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color 2012-02-20T03:00:20.550Z She had a will of her own, her fianc� discovered, and had no humor to forego the independence of her spinsterhood for the responsibilities which awaited her. The Maker of Opportunities 2012-01-30T03:00:18.090Z For all her spinsterhood, Jean Leslie knew something of masculine nature. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z 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 So Joan kept her own counsel about her matrimonial adventure: its publication could do her no good, if possibly no harm; and she preferred the freedom of ostensible spinsterhood. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z She told me once that she was confident my nose was the cause of my spinsterhood. Vacation with the Tucker Twins 2011-05-08T02:00:04.123Z Meg’s confidence contrasts sharply with Ms. Bacon’s anxious, frizzy-haired Lenny, who quivers from the stress of her family’s troubles and the fear of incipient spinsterhood. | New Jersey: A Good Old Bad Day for 3 Southern Sisters 2011-03-20T03:59:08Z There was a certain family likeness between him and his aunt, Mrs. Grimshaw, as she was called in Whitford, despite her spinsterhood. A Charming Fellow, Volume I (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:28.240Z Miss Prall, tall, spare and with the unmistakable earmarks of spinsterhood, directed her menage with the efficiency and capability of a general. In the Onyx Lobby 2011-02-14T03:00:31.897Z But the shadow of spinsterhood had hardly yet begun to throw itself across their breezy path. Abington Abbey A Novel 2011-01-30T03:00:14.557Z As my nose is a perfectly good Lee nose, and as spinsterhood is as much a mark of my family as my nose, I shouldn't mind her remark, but somehow I do. Vacation with the Tucker Twins 2011-05-08T02:00:04.123Z They were filled with something that startled her, something in which there was so great a passion that it threw a hot dart at her spinsterhood and left her rattled and confused. The Rustle of Silk 2011-01-27T03:00:44.390Z "It's the price of spinsterhood with some women," was all she said. Patricia Brent, Spinster Was her marriage to blame for it or my spinsterhood? Lost Man's Lane A Second Episode in the Life of Amelia Butterworth In the registry she blushed over the inscription of her name, and let fall a large blot like a halo above her spinsterhood. Carnival The alternative of perpetual spinsterhood is never considered, either by herself or her parents. Japanese Girls and Women Revised and Enlarged Edition At the same time it is noticeable that no cases of spinsterhood are found; celibacy, rare as it is, is confined to the male sex. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" Of course, there are many lovely girls who appear to have every advantage for matrimony, and who yet drift into spinsterhood. Maids Wives and Bachelors He even dared to wonder sometimes with a thrill of vanity if her feeling toward him could have been the cause of her spinsterhood. When the Cock Crows Don't consign me to an early grave or perpetual spinsterhood. Loyal to the School It was genial summer-time with Carlota—she had passed the age of maiden diffidence, without having attained that of soured and faded spinsterhood. Tales from Blackwood, Volume 1 His only urge was his desire, in the gratification of which he might find compensation, for saving Angela from an unhappy spinsterhood. The "Genius" All this may possibly be true of a very small portion of the community, but the uncontrovertible fact remains that the principal reason for woman’s spinsterhood is man’s indifference. Modern marriage and how to bear it The modern woman looks her future squarely in the face and decides according to her best light whether her happiness depends upon spinsterhood or matrimony. Threads of Grey and Gold As a widow the same demand takes her off the marriage market while younger and brainier women pine their lives away in spinsterhood. How to Analyze People on Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types Failure to 'catch on' requires another backward walk, and so on—each failure to buckle the tree counting as a year of spinsterhood. Storyology Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore Miss Pride alone wore her accustomed mien--of sprightly spinsterhood--unruffled. Nobody Her dreamy brown eyes spoke of a shackled or slumbering soul, voluntarily enduring the isolation of cultured spinsterhood, in search for the higher life. Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight With the long records of the divorce courts before their eyes, it is not very unusual for the younger generation of women nowadays deliberately to choose spinsterhood as their independent lot in life. Threads of Grey and Gold She knew her capabilities, well-tried in some sixty odd years of unprotected spinsterhood. The Backwoodsmen Some of the women I had known had withered into querulous and complaining spinsterhood, and I heard ambitious youth cursing the bondage of the farm. A Son of the Middle Border Nowhere is the horror of elderly spinsterhood more potent. Australian Writers Elvira had grown into her spinsterhood without rebellion and with the quietude of mind conferred by an even disposition. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 Among the wedded couples were certain similes hitherto inviolable in their bachelorhood and spinsterhood, and held in great respect. The World I Live In Merit alone, not matrimony, it was, that had crowned this unsullied spinsterhood with the honorary title of “Mrs.” The Backwoodsmen “Would you condemn the girl to spinsterhood, because there are few men in Northumberland, or elsewhere, who can match her in wealth?” In Her Own Right At thirty-five Ellen had decided, with admirable philosophy, that marriage was not for her, and had assumed, with apparent complacency, the outward evidences of a dignified spinsterhood. The Wonder India and the colonies may absorb a good many, though these places also do duty in the absorption of spinsterhood. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) The chasm between marriage and spinsterhood was as wide as the one between children and pickles. Virginia She thinks he has forgotten her, and allows herself to externally fade into spinsterhood. Charles Frohman: Manager and Man The curate himself, if unmarried, secures the whole spinsterhood of the parish. Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis She evaded asking the Sessionses to shelter the bird, because every favor that she permitted from that smug family was a bond that tied her to their life of married spinsterhood. The Job An American Novel Of course, many a spinster has gone to a satisfied grave in complete contentment over a life of spinsterhood. Stubble In the clear light of her ridicule, the spectre of spinsterhood, which was still an object of dread in the Dinwiddie of the eighties, dissolved into a shadow. Virginia Perhaps, even, she would insist upon remaining in sisterly spinsterhood! Tutors' Lane And the generations crowded one against another; a girl worried about spinsterhood if she reached seventeen unwed. Adaptation Nan's emphasis reflected so directly on her own condition of unauthoritative spinsterhood. The Governess Ichabod was writ large on her powdered brow, and it needed no great foresight to foresee the speedy approach of acidulated spinsterhood. The Bishop's Secret Youth looking at an old maid traces spinsterhood to man’s neglect. The Nebuly Coat Private boarding-houses sprang up like mushrooms on every block; bereaved relicts and ambitious spinsterhood equally clutching the chance to turn an honest penny. Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death She was not pretty, he supposed: broad-faced, square-jawed, verging on spinsterhood. The Burning Bridge A ring, key, thimble, penny, and button baked in it foretell respectively speedy marriage, a journey, spinsterhood, wealth, and bachelorhood. The Book of Hallowe'en There is a tide in the affairs of women, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to matrimony; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows, and in spinsterhood. Christmas Comes but Once A Year Showing What Mr. Brown Did, Thought, and Intended to Do, during that Festive Season. Six months ago, I yearned to have her as a prop for my spinsterhood, but that Dark Age is about to be folded by. Jane Journeys On Richard wondered whether she had pledged herself to spinsterhood, but of course he didn't ask her. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 What right had they to condemn a sweet and affectionate creature such as she to a starved and morbid spinsterhood? The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.) Bachelorhood and spinsterhood are to be regarded as 'irregular'--conditions that must be explained in writing to the proper authorities. The Red Conspiracy Never to be loved but by such a one as Richard Clare was a cheerless prospect; for it was identical with an eternal spinsterhood. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. She was fond of Miss Robinson, but she prayed that fate did not reserve for her a withering to the like brisk, colourless spinsterhood. Franklin Kane "A Great Miration" The attached members of the community are wont to make what Uncle Remus called "a great miration," when a woman deliberately chooses spinsterhood as her lot in life, rather than marriage. The Spinster Book Her love of toys and of little children had kept her human, otherwise she had a feeling that she might have hardened into chill spinsterhood. The Tin Soldier Presently the door itself opened a few inches, and elderly spinsterhood, wrapped in severe inquiry, looked out at him. The Stolen Singer But Jennie was discontented, puling for what she could not have, mourning her lowly fortune, deploring her spinsterhood. My Neighbors Stories of the Welsh People Once married, she gives up to a large extent, if not entirely, the pomps and vanities of which she has had her full during spinsterhood, and devotes herself to her household, children, and husband. Town Life in Australia Small Extravagances The consolations of spinsterhood are mainly negative, but the minus sign has its proper place in the personal equation. The Spinster Book But is this a reason, I only ask you, for leaving, like an uncultivated waste, that holy army of martyrs, the spinsterhood of Great Britain? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 This was a bad beginning, for Joanna flamed at once at the implication that her spinsterhood put her at any disadvantage as a woman of the world. Joanna Godden Colour came into their cheeks, assurance into their faded manners, sense and sensibility into their talk; and whatever happened afterwards they were never crammed back again into the prison of Victorian spinsterhood. Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement The girl often marry thus because she cannot get a husband of her own age, and a very few years lost will doom her to perpetual spinsterhood. Three Months of My Life But it is not until spinsterhood is fully confirmed by grey hair and the family Bible that a girl begins to look with favour upon the army of the detached. The Spinster Book Grandma Bett is, for the moment, the symbol of decrepit age, as Lulu is the symbol of bullied spinsterhood. Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) And later on, when she came to be boss, she still kept to spinsterhood. A Master of Fortune Being Further Adventures of Captain Kettle Women not even behind her back jested at her spinsterhood; and when that is true, a miracle takes place indeed. The Mettle of the Pasture Again, seven saucers are placed in a row, filled respectively with water, earth, ashes, keys, a thimble, money, and grass, which things signify travel, death, widowhood, housekeeping, spinsterhood, riches, and farming. Balder the Beautiful, Volume I. A Study in Magic and Religion: the Golden Bough, Part VII., The Fire-Festivals of Europe and the Doctrine of the External Soul They prefer to accept the bitter alternative of spinsterhood, rather than the degrading sense of being less a partner than a property. Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel Stella could not deny that she enjoyed the luxury of the Abbey ménage, the little festive round which was shaping about Linda in these last days of her spinsterhood. Big Timber A Story of the Northwest They flowed into the hotel in a compact stream of femininity; billows of stout elderly ladies, and dancing ripples of slim young girls, with here and there a side-eddy of thin, middle-aged spinsterhood. The Port of Adventure It was once the residence of a country squire, whose family, probably dwindling down to mere spinsterhood, got merged in the more territorial name of Donnithorne. Adam Bede "Some time he'll forget one of 'em and give to the other, or drop 'em both and give to some new girl!" said Delia Weeks, with an experience born of fifty years of spinsterhood. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm He did not know that the race Marguerite Grey was running was with American dollars, and that the sanctuary she meant was only a debtless spinsterhood. Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel Michael Ivanovich remembered how he had realised that she was on the road to spinsterhood, and desired but one thing for her. The Forged Coupon No one ever looked forward to spinsterhood more thankfully than I. Our fire, I have come to believe, was providential. Dear Enemy In the presence of such an enterprising spinsterhood, bachelorhood had become an exceedingly hazardous existence, and if a man must marry, be might as weel ha' something young an' fresh! Quaint Courtships Miss Priest was no "spin" lingering on in spinsterhood against her will. Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places Her smooth auburn hair was as soft and bright as it had been when she had braided it preparatory to a Barlingford tea-party in the days of her spinsterhood. Birds of Prey The more anxious her father seemed to dispose of her in the marriage market, the more tenaciously she clung to the privileges of spinsterhood. The Golden Calf Accordingly the period of spinsterhood is an important one for consideration. Practical Suggestions for Mother and Housewife Unmarried women in France are not nearly so numerous as in England, and I must say they may well envy their English and American sisters in spinsterhood. East of Paris Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne For once he looked upon that pearl of spinsterhood with a lack-lustre and indifferent eye. The Far Horizon Don’t make Gillian regret that she is falling away from the spinsterhood.” Modern Broods "And in no time at all I shall be thirty—and entering upon a terrible period of spinsterhood!" The Evil Shepherd The latter had stolen from Cappy a stenographer, who had grown to spinsterhood in his employ—one of those rare stenographers who do half a man's thinking for him. Cappy Ricks Or, the Subjugation of Matt Peasley Humans condemn millions of women, specially born for motherhood, to purposeless, joyless spinsterhood, all on account of a prejudice. Winding Paths I am grateful to have come out of the barren land of spinsterhood, seeing the glory of a love greater than myself. Parnassus on Wheels Anne was at the age that sets twenty- five years as the definite boundary of spinsterhood. Sisters The worst feature of their system is the forced celibacy of their daughters; they are never married into any but Sharif families; consequently they often die in spinsterhood. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 The guests were four—a Mrs. Bevis and her three daughters—all invalidish persons, the mother somewhat lackadaisical, the girls with a look of unwilling spinsterhood. The Odd Women At the same time he could not help knowing that "Jinny," in the eccentricities of her virgin spinsterhood, might be equally objectionable to them, as she certainly was a severe trial to him here. Tales of Trail and Town Living alone with her cats and Ambrose, her parrot, Miss Peckham rigidly adhered to the harshest precepts of spinsterhood. Janice Day the Young Homemaker It would not have been pleasant to him to foresee a life of spinsterhood for his daughter; but she was young, and—she was a valuable assistant. New Grub Street She was still knitting, and I supposed that this erect posture against the door was only an eccentricity of spinsterhood and an oblivion of my intended departure. The Club of Queer Trades Alice, if she had ever dreamt of marriage, must by now have resigned prettiness, her health damaged by attendance upon an exacting herself to spinsterhood. The Odd Women She seemed infinitely removed from him, traveling her lonely road past loving outstretched hands and facing ahead toward—well, toward fifty years of spinsterhood. The Breaking Point In the end, suddenly terrorized by the first faint shadows of spinsterhood, she turns to the ultimate numskull—and marries him out of hand. In Defense of Women It was evidently Miss Hathaway's treasure box, put away in the attic when spinsterhood was confirmed by the fleeting years. Lavender and Old Lace |
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