She was a spinsterwith large black hungry eyes in a very white face.
I was obliged to be away from him," Daisy replied, and the spinster continued: "Why?
And in this opinion the spinster was confirmed by his letter.
The next day five hundred dollars were placed in the Allington Savings Bank to the credit of Bessie McPherson Bowen, and the spinster washed her hands of the whole affair, as she expressed it to herself.
One spinsterof the family residing in Detroit expressed much regret that she had no husband.
At seven years of age he was up in a cherry tree when a very prim and disagreeable spinster came to call, and he indulged in the childish luxury of throwing cherries at her.
A contrast, indeed, to the severe garb of the spinster sisters, who looked like allegorical figures of hopeless gloom.
We were orphans and spinster Aunt Lucy did her best to be a parent to us; and we got on smoothly enough, for none of us had the temperament that rouses friction in the home.
We almost pitied—under the mollifying and refining influences of our stay within its courts,—the Average British Spinster who had taken the early train for Venice and the “wealth of art there.
Only my age," said Tish rather wearily, "and that I'm an elderly spinster teaching children to defy their parents and committing larceny to help them.
Think of it, my three revered and dearly beloved spinster friends; think of the peace, the holy calm of it!
The spinster knew nothing of the clash impending between Sandy and the gambler, neither did her nephew, who, the excitement of the fight over, yawned and went off with his aunt and Mormon.
This was hewing close to the line, and Mormon glared at him while the spinster sniffed.
At the diplomatic concession to her maturity Molly gave the spinster a mollified glance.
It had to be wiped out at the earliest moment and, singularly enough, the spinster was not particularly prominent in the matter.
The spinster gasped, met his eyes, flushed and turned away.
The only thing that was likely to defeat me was the fact that Aunt Rachel did not like my wife, for Lilian, who regarded the worthy spinster as an “old fuss,” had not always been as prudent in her presence as I could have wished.
The venerable spinster had thirty thousand dollars according to the calculations of Captain Halliard, which was one-third more than I had ever supposed.
If you are determined upon a life of celibacy, determine also to be the most wholesome, and normal, and all around liberal, womanly spinster the world has ever seen.
While there are many wives and widows possessed of these qualities, there seems to be some handicap to the spinster in the race of life who undertakes to arrive at middle age with all the womanly attributes.
Napagyà karun nga ang dalágang mamatay pabawnan ug alhu, It is a common joke to say that when a spinster dies, they should put a pestle at her side.
Nanggúngis nang bayhána sa hiktanan tungud sa kapilian, That woman became a spinster because of her choosiness.
It was no longer the face of a girl of two-and-twenty which confronted the spinster across the bed; it was the face of Edward B Briskett, the financier who had twice over piled up great fortunes by sheer force and determination.
The little spinster hurried along, but the black hands of the clouds kept pace and clutched her.
George would be coming about seven; and the spinster showed no signs of departure; and Leslie might arrive at any moment.
Oh, don't try to discourage me in my spinster path.
She did not even see that it was funny that Falstaff should be impersonated by a most genteel spinster with a cold in her head, who got continual shocks at what she found herself reading, and murmured, "Oh!
During these three days Varick, almost without trying to do so, had learnt all there was to learn of the simple-minded spinster and of her financial circumstances.
Mrs. Varick had been a violent, disagreeable woman, and the kindly spinster had felt deeply sorry for the husband, himself little more than a boy.
It was only the other day a certain spinster in Lochaber, who has reached the shady side of sixty, owned a cow.
The bachelor whose name appeared on a billet thus extracted at random, became the valentine of the spinster to whose lot it fell.
Grapes foretell to the spinster a cheerful husband, and much happiness in all her life.
Tupman flirted with thespinster aunt and Snodgrass whispered poetry into Emily's ear to his heart's content.
The spinster at once went into violent hysterics, and Jingle, seeing the game was up, accepted the sum of money which Mr. Wardle offered him to take himself off.
With Sam Weller's aid, they soon found that Jingle and the spinster were there, and entered the room in which the couple sat at the very moment Jingle was showing the marriage license which he had just brought.
There were deep lamentations when the confiding spinsterfound herself deserted by the faithless Jingle, and slowly and sadly Mr. Pickwick and Mr. Wardle bore her back to Dingley Dell.
The warning, however, had no effect on the spinster aunt.
Pougeot impatiently, but Coquenil gave the woman a reassuring look and she went on to explain that she was a spinster living in a little attic room of the next house, overlooking the Rue Marboeuf.
It would have been easy now, for instance, to assume that this prim spinster was mistaken in declaring that she had seen the pistol thrown from the window of Number Seven.
Then she went quietly to bed, feeling, as the gaunt spinster had tried to put it, "If you can bear your ills so, surely I might manage to bear mine more courageously.
On the evening of Dudley's visit, when she first found the gaunt spinster at the flat, she had gone to bed feeling out of sorts with herself and all the world.
A good deal to her amusement, she found the gaunt spinster knitting babies' socks, with a basket containing several completed pairs beside her.
The gauntspinster was cutting some bread-and-butter now with a savage air.
But the gaunt spinster followed her across the little landing obstinately.
The swallow, passing swiftly by, Bore web and all away, The spinster dangling in the sky!
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.
Certain it is, that Miss Johns indulged in such scathing condemnation of the poor sinner as made Adele shiver: with the spinster at least, there would be little hope for a Magdalen, or a child of a Magdalen.
Middleton said to the spinster aunts, as he accompanied them to the drawing-room, "shall be no lost day for me if I may devote the remainder of it to you.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spinster" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: celibate; maid; maiden; mule; spider; spinner; spinster; unmarried; vestal; virgin
