I am childless and old; this good lad, who is really my only comfort in the world, is the future heir of my fortune.
Tell me how I may recompense you for this precious gift, and with what I may sweeten your childless widowhood!
Cholera had taken his wife from his side, and he inhabited the great house on Apollo-street, a desolate and childless old man.
Even so; I am loveless and childless in my old age; be to me a son, I will strive to be to you a father.
His genius was childless also--it would leave behind it no offspring of the brain.
Talk not to me of her amiable, tender, holy aim, to obtrude upon my childless house the grand-daughter of a convicted felon!
As Waife had so fondly anticipated, the lone childless lady had taken with kindness and interest to the fair motherless child.
Henceforth he devoted himself chiefly to the pursuit of money,--a pursuit in which he was favoured by the death of his childless brother in 1790, when he succeeded to the Fen Place and Field Place estates.
Legacies bequeathed by childless persons to those not connected by ties of blood, played a very important part in the society under the emperors.
Thus a childless widower not only may, but must, seek a second marriage, especially if he has no married brothers.
A childless old man who has property is in China, as in the West, the object of the most tender solicitude on the part of brothers and cousins with large families.
A practical reason for this proceeding at once suggests itself if it has happened that the couple were childless and were the owners of property.
In a year a boy was born, and Liu Yü Shih said, "Now my husband is no longer childless and I can close my eyes in death.
It is when a childless young widow, in spite of the solicitations of her husband's family, obstinately refuses to take a second husband that domestic troubles arise which are likely to end in the law-courts.
The ancestral worship will not suffer by his childless death provided he has brothers and nephews to perpetuate the family sacra.
A widower may not marry before three feast days have passed since the death of his wife, but in case he is childless or his children require a mother's care he may marry after seven days.
If she dies childless it goes to her mother, and if her mother is also dead it goes to her single sisters.
Are faithful to thine honour:- guard them well, O childless city!
Is it surprising that, childless as she happily was, and still sufficiently young and unbroken in spirit to hope for happier days, the Archduchess turned her eyes longingly elsewhere and encountered those of Count Seilern?
Keble was very fond of children, but only a childless man could have constructed so false a picture.
To me this pearl of dames he gave From childless woe mine age to save, The daughter whom he loved so much, Moved by compassion’s gentle touch.
How stand before the childless king And meet his eager questioning?
That childless prince of high renown, Who smote in war his foemen down, At that same time with utmost care Prepared the rite that wins an heir.
But splendid, just, and great of mind, The childless king for offspring pined.
A childless mother long I grieved, And many a sigh for offspring heaved, With wistful longing weak and worn Till thou at last, my son, wast born.
He, great in glory, pure in will, Longing for sons was childless still.
Hence, as the lion robs the cow, Kaikeyí makes mechildless now, Exulting from her feebler foe To rend the son she cherished so.
Though to the childless wife there clings One sorrow armed with keenest stings, “No child have I: no child have I,” No second misery prompts the sigh.
Yet, should it please you to give me in return some small share of your love, I who am childless and friendless shall be grateful.
Miriam saw their meeting, which was a touching sight, since this childless couple who had been married for almost thirty years, had now been separated for a long time.
Like many others, this story begins with a childless queen whose husband is absent at the wars.
The woman comforted the children, and while the childless woman went with one of the devils, the mother put the children to bed on the stove, laid juniper twigs in front, and made the sign of the cross over them.
Divorces in the United States are least common among people of the middle class; they are higher among native whites than among immigrants, and they are highest in cities and among childless couples.
Children hold the family together; separation and divorce are most common in childless homes.
There are selfish people who shirk the responsibilities and troubles of parenthood, and there are social diseases that tend to sterility, but the childless home is always an incomplete home.
His heart, I ween, foreboded the deed that had been done, And that the childless father no more should see his son.
Unfortunately the love of money grows on a childless man, and his terms for the loan you require may not meet your approbation.
I have just come from a home for poor old women, childless widows, sickly spinsters, who cannot work, and have no one to work for them.
It would succeed without doubt; if his young wife had no promise of offspring as yet, she would remain childlessfor ever.
The old gipsy taught her the charm, the same with which she afterward bewitched the whole princely Pomeranian race, so that they perished childless from off the face of the earth; [Footnote: Marginal note of Duke Bogislaff XIV.
For children he had a profound love, and if he had married, he would not have been content with a childless home--with a childless home like that of Rudyard Byng.
Better perhaps be childless and retain one's own personal hopes and fears for life, than be so relegated to history in the very zenith of one's days.
The childless man or woman has at least preserved his or her individuality, as few fathers and mothers of large families are suffered to do.
Childless middle age is no doubt often dreary to contemplate, yet is it an egoistical bias which leads one to find in such limitation, or one might rather say preservation, of the ego, a certain compensation?
Childless couples leap over bonfires to procure offspring, i.
Dee, holed stone used bychildless women in the Aberdeenshire, ii.
Legend runs that childless women used to wade out to the stone and squeeze themselves through the hole.
Sarah, in a season of desperation at her childless condition, seems to have been tempted to imitate the corrupt expedient which was prevalent among the Canaanites around her, and which still prevails in the East.
It is objected that the marriage of the widow who was childless to the brother of the deceased, to raise up seed to the dead, presents a case of polygamy actually commanded.
Surely, The royal line that flowed A river pure and grand, Dies in the childless king, Like streams in desert sand.
Imploring the king to care for his childless mother, he awakens genuine sympathy in the queen, who readily parts with her serpent-ring, supposed to be efficacious in charming away the effects of snake-poison.
Oh, let not the childless lament, I am as grass that withereth!
Their marriage was for three years a childless one, in the fourth she announced to her enraptured husband that she was a mother.
