Miss Garradice after the fashion of highly strung spinsters suddenly felt disappointed in her leader.
They hunted out Mrs. Barnet and heard her ideas about conjoint homes for spinsters in the Garden Suburb.
For of course the most scientific modern demand as to Miss Angela's class came simply down to this, that all Temporary Spinsters should have some regular business to occupy their hands and heads.
This time, it did not work out quite so well: the secret truth of the matter being that, at bottom, all Spinsters have certain well-defined points in common.
Young married women, young impressionable Temporary Spinsters everywhere, would soon be reading this book, and moulding their characters upon it.
He was surveying, as if from a new peak, the unhappy situation of Home-Makers with their Homes yet to seek: the considerable army of the involuntary spinsters of leisure.
I've been thinking that it was he who almost murdered the villain, and gave one of the Spinsters her old place back.
Spinsters were entitled to a man's freedom to follow away their work--of course.
Where the spinsters at tea are collected, Her arrival is hailed with delight; She is welcomed, adored, and respected In each newspaper office at night; For her presence imprints an original seal On an otherwise commonplace journal or meal.
Three weeks from that time the twelve spinsters were married at St. George's.
There was another board-meeting of the spinsters at Miss Cloot's.
He was shown at once into a parlour, where he saw a man whom lawyers would call young, and spinsters middle-aged-- viz.
Item that the rates of wages of the weavers and spinsters shall be for this year now next ensuing as follows, viz.
These spinsters make it a point of honor to resemble the lay figures of a painter; they sit on their hips, never on their chairs.
To her "Religious Retirement" might go women tired of the world, young women waiting the arrangement of a suitable marriage, heiresses desiring to escape pursuit, spinsters anxious for some honorable retreat from a derisive world.
So when the feast began in came the three spinsters in strange guise, and the bride said, "Dear cousins, you are welcome.
In the city of Halifax widows andspinsters who are rate-payers may vote on Municipal questions.
In Montreal, under the old charter, only widows and spinsters who owned property had the Municipal Franchise; in 1899 this was amended, adding tenancy with residence as a qualification.
In the Province of Ontario, in 1884, widows and spinsterswere given the Municipal Franchise on the same terms as men.
In the Province of British Columbia, in 1888, the Municipal Franchise was conferred on widows and spinsters owning property.
In the Province of Nova Scotia the Municipal Franchise was granted to widows and spinsters in 1887.
In the Province of Quebec, in 1892, the Municipal and School Franchise was conferred on widows and spinsters on the same terms as on men.
In the Province of New Brunswick the Legislature in 1886 gave, unsolicited, to widows andspinsters the right to vote on the same terms as men at Municipal elections.
In the Province of Prince Edward Island, in 1888, the Municipal Suffrage was granted to widows and spinsters owning property.
The second protested against the attempt "to force widows, spinsters and married women to vote against their will.
In now offering a domestic sample, I have but one regret, which is, that my spinsters on the present occasion are unhappily limited to two in number.
I confidently anticipate a brisk competition and a ready market for thespinsters now about to be submitted to inspection.
I appear before you in the character of an amateur matrimonial agent having a few choice spinsters to dispose of; and I can wait patiently, my brisk young bachelor friends, until I find that you are ready to make me a bid.
But, there are peculiarly constituted bachelors in this world; and I like to be able to show that my assortment of spinsters is various enough to warrant me in addressing even the most alarming eccentricities of taste.
Shall we try some soft and sentimental Spinstersto begin with?
If he could only be present in the spirit, after leaving the abode of the Miss Cruttwells in the body, his admiration of my three disputatious spinsters would, I think, be greatly increased.
Enraptured spinsters flung tea-leaves round him, and incensed him with the coffee-pot.
This will suffice to keep many spinsters happy--the memory of some love and tenderness, a romance of some kind to sweeten life; women need it.
It is generally the wretched wives, the unhappy, restless spinsters who run up bills and fling away money.
Why should we have morespinsters than other countries?
Most spinstersover thirty must have winced at one time or another at the would-be genial rallying of some elderly man relative: 'What!
Think of the enormous number of miserable spinsters who would be happily provided for.
It must be peaceful, at anyrate; but spinsters don't look any happier than married women.
In this class are the widowers who wed for the sake of their children, the spinsters whose motive is their desire for motherhood, the men and women who marry to possess a home, or for the sake of companionship.
Fortunately hers is an extreme case; the majority ofspinsters I imagine can take a delight in seeing girls happy, and are generally deeply interested in the love affairs of others.
There he feasted again upon the luxurious provision that the spinsters had been making for the appetite that the new air had given him.
They were four spinsters of Irish descent who kept this small inn, and all that good housewifery could do to make it comfortable was done.
He knew so little of the place to which he had come that when the spinsters spoke of driving to another island it seemed to him that they spoke as wildly as when they told of the pranks of the Evil One.
There were very few people in the hotel--the one or two English spinsters of a certain age whom one always meets travelling, and two artists.
There were many more women than men--groups of English spinsters doing their sights most thoroughly--the Americans more casual.
A million to one, those deaf old spinsters can tell you nothing you burn to know.
Deaf old spinsters are not used to be the depositaries of such mystical secrecies.
Somehow it seems more difficult for spinsters than for mothers to remember those swift, free flights of madness and sweetness which, like a troop of birds in the measurable heavens, sweep in joyous circles across the sky of youth.
Last year a friend of mine started a `Thankfulness Society,' as a cure for the grumbling and discontent which is apt to engulf spinsters in a country place.
There was a certain flatness, no doubt; a certain dread in envisaging the years, but experience showed that such moods were not confined to spinsters alone.
What broken tradesmen and abandon'd wives Curse thy delusion through their wretched lives; What pale-faced spinsters vent on thee their rage, And youths decrepid e're they come of age.
Because spinsters like to call themselves 'bachelor girls,' but no bachelor ever calls himself an 'old-maid man.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spinsters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
