It may have come about after Milton had been deserted by his wife in July 1643, and when a few pupils, besides the two nephews he had till then had charge of, were received into his wifeless household.
What a busy domicile the wifeless house in Aldersgate Street must have been through the year 1644!
Lift now the hands that may not bless A wifeless feast, a queenless throne, A court or council womanless, Or life one-limbed and sideways grown, That holds the hands that may not bless.
Of course I tried to dissuade her, but my arguments were those of a wifeless man, and very weak.
When a great chief dies, his widow is often forced by public opinion to follow him to the grave, in order that the departed brave may not be wifeless in the hereafter.
But they open a peculiarly dismal prospect to wifeless souls.
ISIGÂLIGÂRSSIK Isigâligârssik was a wifeless man, and he was very strong.
And so that wifeless man took a wife from among those women, because they would not let him go away to the north.
But on the way that wifeless man procured food for them by catching fish, and when he had caught enough to fill a pot, he rowed in with his catch.
And now they lived together, the wifeless man and the girl, and every day there was freshly caught seal meat to be cut up.
It is said that the skeleton of that wifeless man lies there in the south to this day.
And hardly had the evening begun to fall when the wifeless man went to rest, and hardly had the light appeared when the wifeless man went out hunting, long before his fellows.
That it did not do so is a proof how firmly rooted was the wifelessness of Assur in the Assyrian mind; he was no Babylonian Bel who needed a helpmeet, but a warrior's god, who entered the battle wifeless and alone.
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