And if the husband and wife are impleaded in such case, the wife shall plead as a single woman in the Court of Record, and shall have her law and other advantages by way of plea just as a single woman.
Tahitian females because he could not discover their much-vaunted beauty: "I did not see among them a single woman whom I could call handsome.
Not one man in a hundred, and not a single woman, escapes torments which a civilized man cannot so much as look another in the face and speak of.
Mr. Philip Fairlie had lived on excellent terms with his sister Eleanor, as long as she remained a single woman.
A single woman's will is revoked by her subsequent marriage, and is not again revived by the death of her husband; a single man's will is revoked by marriage absolutely only when he leaves a widow but no known heirs or kindred (Purd.
There was not at that time a single woman compositor in the State, to my son's knowledge; there is one now in Raleigh and two apprentices, who claimed and receive all the advantages that men applying for admission to the Union receive.
I was a singer on the stage," she said, "when I was a single woman.
If he told you that I was any thing but a single woman--if he told you that Arnold Brinkworth was married to any body but Miss Lundie of Windygates--I say again he lied!
He being a single man, and she being a single woman, at the time?
I do not think that you increase the number of happy marriages or lessen the number of mercenary unions by making the task for a single womanto maintain herself honestly and usefully such very uphill work.
It was a great wonder to the Swinton people that you returned a single woman," said Jane.
I wonder you are not frightened to stay here a single woman.
A married woman has the same right of buying, selling, owning and controlling any kind of real or personal property as a single woman.
A wife has absolute power to deal with her separate property as if she were a single woman.
A judicial separation carries with it separation of property and restores to a woman her full civil rights, so that she may buy and sell and otherwise act as if she were a single woman.
A married woman may acquire, hold and control property of every description the same as a single woman.
Respect for woman came only with the absolute need of her, and so many women of distinguished ability made themselves of service to the Government, that we had no single woman to honor as England had honored Florence Nightingale.
Not a jeer, not a word, not a look disrespectful has met a single woman.
A single woman would be completely at the mercy of this man.
I do not mean to imply that it is impossible to live, even as a single woman, a moral life in a common lodging-house, or that many of the proprietors do not do their best to secure morality.
To keep up a position of social importance in a single woman's house, unless, as she had herself lightly said so short a time since, she were awfully rich, would be next to impossible.
I don't think you are cut out for a single woman, for my part.
Three hundred would not be so bad for a single woman.
No single woman, having been seduced, has any remedy at common law; neither has her mother nor next friend.
A man and wife are one person in law: a wife loses all her rights as a single woman.
As a protection against the common law, it is usual to have some settlement of property made upon the wife; and, in respect to this property, the courts of equity regard her as a single woman.
No single woman to take money to lie with any man, but she lie with him all night till the morrow.
No single woman to be kept against her will that would leave her sin.
I bought this necklace on Max's suggestion, as an advertisement--I meant to wear it in A Single Woman; that alone would help make our play a go.
And A Single Woman promised to be a good play, measured by modern standards: not great, but sound and clear and strong.
I am a single woman; not from want of opportunities of changing my condition--I beg you will understand that--but from choice.
In conclusion, I can only repeat that no evil which could have happened (if she had remained a single woman) would have been comparable, in my opinion, to the evil of such a marriage as this.
It had been more than I wanted as a single woman, and I was resolved that it should be enough for me now.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "single woman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
