The first year of her widowhood was drawing to a close, and she had resolved at length to remove from the retreat in which she had been so long hidden from mankind.
At the same time she nobly asserts her mother's claim to rehabilitation through a passionate and disinterested attachment, a faithful devotion to the duties of marriage and maternity, and a widowhood whose sorrow ended only with her life.
As might have been expected, her widowhood was early and long, for her aged partner soon dropped from her side, beloved and regretted.
It was assumed among them that Wilkinson would propose to her the following summer, when the first year of his widowhood should be ended.
She spoke of how the great grief of her widowhood had taught her to sift the dross from letters of condolence.
Still his letters to my mother in her early widowhood had been a great comfort to her, and there was no doubt of his having been a thoroughly good parish-priest.
Let's turn out the lights so as to make this double widowhoodlast a bit longer.
The loss of her delightful status of widowhood will cause her to die.
In the early days of her widowhood a report arose that a marriage[121] was in contemplation between the Countess of Forlì and Antonio Ordelaffi, pretender to that principality.
And though in her widowhood her memory naturally most frequently recurs to the happy years of her married life there, the remote little island had at least as strong a claim upon her affections as the home of her childhood.
Probably the dress commonly worn by widows throughout their widowhoodis a remnant of the mediaeval custom.
In post-Reformation times there are biographies of holy women which show that the idea of consecrated widowhood was still living in the minds of the people.
What passed during the eight months of that widowhood so painfully borne?
The high-toned living widowhood of Penelope is of itself conclusive on the point before us.
One inspector, at least, realised the connection of the destitution due to widowhood with the absence of compensation for accidents and industrial diseases among workmen.
Here was a woman and sister whose widowhood was more desolate than even death had made my own.
On the whole, if a woman can live without love, or with nothing stronger than a tender sentimental friendship, widowhood is the most blissful state she can attain.
To such a womanwidowhood has no sentimental regrets.
Was it for this you suffered a mother's pangs in your lone widowhood five-and-thirty years ago?
She preserved a chaste widowhood till the death of her daughter, and then hanged herself.
She was wretchedly poor, but she maintained an honourable widowhood to her death.
The dress suggested widowhood, but no longer in the first passionate agony--widowhood subdued and resigned.
For if I had caused a few questions to be asked at first, all the lies about the widowhood might have been avoided.
The circumstances of her widowhood with its heavy responsibilities had perhaps hardly been fair to her.
She is in reality only a girl, and her widowhood has already lasted two years, you say.
Much abode the lady in her widowhood as a good dame and a holy, for she loved much God and Holy Church.
Then abode King Florus in widowhood more than two years, and he was still a young man, whereas he was not of more than five-and-forty winters, wherefore the barons said to him that he behoved to marry again.
During many years of herwidowhood she spent the summer months in New England, and occasionally met Mr. Whittier at the mountains.
Paul, in the passage cited, has strong things to say of widows who prove unfaithful to the widowhood in which they had promised to live.
We know what conjugal life is, what widowhood and maidenhood, and how we are to live and act therein in a Christian manner.
Even the sable garments of their widowhood appear essential to their existence; all their attributes combine to render them darksome shadows creeping strangely amid the sunshine of human life.
Her most faithful friend and admirer in all her long widowhood of twenty-two years was the great artist, sculptor, and painter, Michael Angelo, who never failed to treat her with the tenderest courtesy and respect.
Vittoria was spending her first few months of widowhood in the Orsini palace at Padua, when one night the building was entered by forty men, all masked in black, who came with murderous intent.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "widowhood" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
