Their widows and orphans must be maintained at the public expense; and if they were killed in a sea-fight, their sons may bear the names of their fathers on their shields.
If there are widows and orphans, they shall likewise be maintained at the public expense; and the sons may inscribe the names of their fathers on their shields for the honour of their families.
Lepers and thewidows of the devotee class had been legally buried alive.
The burying alive of widows manifests, if that were possible, a still more abominable state of feeling towards women than the burning them alive.
A meeting had been held at the Town Hall to raise a fund for the relief of the widows and children of the fishermen lost in the recent gales.
A meeting had been held to assist the widows and children of the men lost on the 26th January then last.
There is no prohibition on the remarriage of widows in Muhammadan law, but the Hindu rule on the subject has had considerable influence, and some Muhammadans of good position object to the marriage of widows in their family.
When asked for the name of their caste they not infrequently say that they are Rajputs; but they allow widows to remarry, and their social customs and position are generally the same as those of the Barhais.
The practice of Sati or the self-immolation of widows has also been given divine authority by the story that Sati was Siva's first wife, and that she committed suicide because she and her husband were not invited to Daksha's sacrifice.
A subcaste of Parwar Bania, consisting of the offspring of remarried widows or illegitimate unions.
The remarriage of widows is allowed but is celebrated at midnight.
Some of them abstain from flesh and liquor, and prohibit the remarriage of widows with a view to raising their social status.
The English government had put an end to the suttee: the frightful and compulsory custom of widows flinging themselves on the funeral pyres of their husbands who were being incinerated.
He always had in his pocket book a note of some dozen poor widows who wanted tea, sugar, candles, or other things such as poor widows always will be wanting.
He also desires him to "honour widows that are widows indeed," and to afford them all proper relief by charitable contributions, a practice for which the first Christians were highly distinguished.
If the charity of Dorcas had been of this questionable nature, we should not have read of the widows that stood Weeping by her death-bed, and exhibiting the various articles of clothing she made "while she was with them.
When widows have grown-up sons, their condition is much superior to that in which they formerly lived with their husbands.
I the coats and garments which she gave to the widows are only mentioned, they are to be considered as one specimen only of a very extended system of benevolence.
Widows abound at the springs just now--by which I meanwidows who would not object to trying the chances of matrimony again.
After dinner the two widows went together up to Mme.
Every good citizen and right-thinking American will join with me in extending to their afflicted widows and orphan children sincere and heart-felt commiseration for the calamity which has befallen them.
He'd seen I don't know how many single females and widows who had the fancywork and crochetin' habit; and they sold him everything they had in stock, and promised more.
That is why the heads of a great life insurance company illegally used the funds belonging to widows and orphans to contribute to the campaign fund of the Republican Party in 1904.
There is the same relentless scourge of the despoilers, of those who devour widows houses.
I lay last night At a poor widows house here in the Thicket, Whither I will conduct ye, and new shape ye, My self too to attend ye.
There was great joy among thewidows of all those dead hunters when they learned that Angusinãnguaq had avenged their husbands.
I am of opinion that old maids and widows should inspire nothing but generous feelings of sympathy in the heart of man.
Widows are less marriageable in England than in other countries, for this reason: that their husbands, in their wills, almost invariably stipulate that they leave so much to their wives on the condition that they will not remarry.
I have known widows remarry, and love their second husbands with the same devotion as their first.
In many places much nearer home it is not unfrequent to hear the opinion expressed that widows should be disposed of as in Malabar.
However, widows are not altogether without their revenge.
That I never did; but I always made it a point to flatter any women I took in to dinner, and I am now the trustee or business adviser for at least half a dozen wealthy widows as a direct consequence.
That is the reason why cheating one's club members at cards is regarded as worse than stealing the funds belonging to widows and orphans.
A hogshead of wheat, and another of pease or barley, stood ever in his hall, out of which the aged widows and the poor housekeepers of the village were always liberally supplied in their need.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "widows" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
