Nancy is anold maid herself, but she has had two proposals.
And I, an old maid of forty, caught myself blushing like a girl.
To go and marry an old maid when he might have had his choice of half a dozen young ones!
Old maid as she was, or thought herself, Miss Williams knew enough of men not to fall into the feminine error of fancying they feel as we do--that their world is our world, and their interest our interest.
What good under God's sky does it do you to be an old maid, Sally Ruth?
Sally Ruth, come to think of it, an Old Maid's a miserable, stiff, scentless sort of a flower.
As for myself, I know very well that if I am an old maid I shall try not to hurt others' feelings--I, inconsiderate!
His precious "Ditty Bag," containing his sewing utensils, had been carefully packed away in the bottom of one of his bundles; of which he had as many as an old maid on her travels.
Better be an old maid, a woman with herself for a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
In truth, an old salt is very much of an old maid, though, strictly speaking, far from deserving that misdeemed appellative.
Meantime, to apostrophize ten words upon that last heartless sentence: "Let her die an old maid.
Consider, my dear Lady Lyle, is there not something very chaste and beautiful in the aspect of an old maid?
While they were playing they talked of men, and of how difficult it was to get a good husband nowadays, and which state was to be preferred--that of an old maid or a widow.
She used to speak of herself as an old maid--so she was certain she would marry.
Then be an old maid, get some "bloom of youth," paint up and love yourself.
There are young women teaching school, getting to be old maids, who should be the wives of good husbands, and there are some wives who ought to be old maid "schoolmarms.
Her retort was that a chinkapin-burr might be used to rouse people from a lethargy (she had an old maid's tongue).
My cousin Fanny was an old maid; indeed, to follow St. Paul's turn of phrase, she was an old maid of the old maids.
Yes, dead; what's the use of living when I know that I shall be an old maid?
No one ever heard of the belle (and I was the belle not of one, but of two seasons) remaining an old maid.
Mamma had no right to break off the match, and I am not going to remain an old maid.
Oh yes, Alice, I know I shall be an old maid; and isn't it dreadful, and I the belle of the season?
Being an old maid, I do not know much about men and have never pretended to, but my cousin Sophia is very hard on them, although she married two of them, which you might think was a fair share.
None of those boys will bother dancing with an old maid like me.
I am an old maid and an old maid has to be independent or she will be squashed out.
But none had heard that a corpse was to be borne to its home that afternoon, nor was there any token of a funeral, except the apparition of the "Old Maid in the Winding-Sheet.
In the interval, a lonely woman had passed from youth to extreme age, and was known by all the town, as the "Old Maid in the Winding-Sheet.
I am only seventeen, and she is an old maid of twenty-two; I think it too ridiculous.
Tell your father," continued Manabozho, "to come and visit me, and let him bring a sack.
They were good, obedient chickens, and when the old hen chicked after them they chirped and ran back to her side.
But Manabozho was prepared with his oil and, rubbing his canoe freely with it, from end to end, he slipped through with ease-and he was the first person who had ever succeeded in passing through the Pitch-Water.
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