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childless - enjoyed the incredible luxury of having four
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She and her husband therefore lived childless, and yet not without real affection for one another
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To have a child after having been childless when others my age were mothers many times over, is indeed a miracle
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Actually, it gave us a few moments to pretend we were childless
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They were a childless couple for 18 years of marriage when unexpectedly Roger showed up when I was 17
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We called for a midwife who, together with Bożena Guzik, a childless woman from a nearby village, delivered the baby
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Jer 22:30 Thus saith the LORD, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah
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30 So says the Lord, Write you this man childless, the man who shall not prosper in his days, for no
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ter mother, who was childless, adopted me — almost by acci-
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They had been to Ageless once before to visit an NRI childless couple who found it fashionable to settle there and breathe their last too
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They were childless and then, she adopted Krishnan’s mother in retribution to washing his sins and giving life to a girl child
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2 And Abram said, Lord God, what will you give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?
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They were practicing Roman Catholics who, for the first 10-15 years of marriage, had been childless
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We were then still childless, but Dixie had a good job as a GS-9, first female supervisory technician with the USDA’s laboratory in Mesa
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20 And if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless
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21 And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing: he has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless
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2 And Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless,
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As an afterthought, it is interesting to note that because of her attitude to David humbling himself before the Lord, she was to bear no children and died childless, which in ancient Israel was the most degrading thing that could befall a woman
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(To be caused to be childless and barren in the land
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But she didn't and she made things be the way that they are, she's a stupid fool and she's no sister to me” she said in her childless bratty tone
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” The king’s courier quickly went on, “He had been adopted by Pharaoh’s sister, who was childless
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on, “He had been adopted by Pharaoh's sister, who was childless
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She also volunteered that she lived next door, was a childless widow, and kept busy
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Dr Sanderson is a specialist in assisting childless couples through IVF in his private clinic and when that fails, adoption
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All her men were single, childless, no strings attached
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In particular, low-status males may be more likely to remain completely childless
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The cold truth was they would be childless and that was final
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As long as Victor remained childless then he was safe
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for her childless years,
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Now there occurred a case where a certain man who had six brothers died childless; his next brother took his wife but also soon died, leaving no children
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now be childless again? To be honest I could
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ourselves to being childless and had grown quite happy in our
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1 Should childless people have to pay school education fees as
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If he would never consider buying this property were he and his wife childless or the parents of a single child, then there is no doubt that his purchase of the house for his large family with his stated intentions makes the kids slaves to him, and maybe his wife, too
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the facile judgment of the childless
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since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate
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When King Aethelbald died a year ago, Judith, still childless, returned to Western Francia after having sold her properties in the Wessex
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away to childless middle-aged couples who would never have a baby
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Jeremy, offended for them, said ‘Amazing how disdainful childless
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of his offspring, could perhaps accept life on these terms, but for a gay man – childless – it
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childless oppressed her deeply
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He pictured in his mind the people that he had come to know and love and where they sat every Sunday: the Petersons on the right and half-way back with their two little girls; the Wilburs, the oldest couple in his church, a few rows behind the Petersons; the still childless Roths on the opposite side of the sanctuary, Lucy Roth making numerous trips to the ladies’ room while Edward preached
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Owning nothing and childless, hers was nevertheless the wealthiest of souls for possessing all the best that a mother's love epitomizes and the world's worst-off were the most loved of her foster brood
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Letting out a long painful sigh, this poor childless woman wiped away her tears of sorrow
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When Zacharias (cpth) saw that and heard from her what he heard, he invoked God to grant him a pious son so as to take his place and become a guide after him as he (cpth) was childless
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“Ten childless couples?” Emily said, repeating the stranger’s words
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“They were childless when I first met them fourteen years ago, and still childless when I moved them here to the island a year later
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We were all roughly the same age, and all childless
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It was, she felt, one of her most just grievances against Job, that she was childless
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Therefore, to her, the worst of Fanny's misfortunes was being childless
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The childless woman was a pitied creature
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Then she sought out the postman's wife, who looked particularly motherly and bright, and found that she was childless
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have gone to relatives or childless couples to give birth
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and he is childless, his brother should take the wife and
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childless; and the second and the third took her; and in
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Still single and childless, and still estranged from his family, Peter was the closest thing he had to a blood relative
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Lord, it is thy good providence that hath built us up into a family: We thank thee for the children thou hast graciously given thy servants; the Lord that hath blessed us with them make them blessings indeed to us, that we may never be tempted to wish we had been written childless
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In any case, she had been married for four years but was childless and, in the loose arrangements of lower-class Muslim marriages, was either expendable or liable to share her status with a new and presumably more fertile woman
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A childless divorcee who did not push me to make an honest woman of her since the dreaded Greek stigma of remaining on the shelf was no longer valid
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I had watched my wife die an old woman childless and embittered toward me
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Each age has sent its contingent, not of sons (for the great mass of seamen have always been a childless lot) but of loyal and obscure successors taking up the modest but spiritual inheritance of a hard life and simple duties; of duties so simple that nothing ever could shake the traditional attitude born from the physical conditions of the service
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It needed the lurid light of the engines of war to bring them out into full view, very simple, without worldly graces, organised now into a body of workers by the genius of one of themselves, who gave them a place and a voice in the social scheme; but in the main still apart in their homeless, childless generations, scattered in loyal groups over all the seas, giving faithful care to their ships and serving the nation, which, since they are seamen, can give them no reward but the supreme "Well Done
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under the care of a widow and childless aunt, housekeeper to my lord
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"Alice," she said, "the Huron offers us both life, nay, more than both; he offers to restore Duncan, our invaluable Duncan, as well as you, to our friends—to our father—to our heart-stricken, childless father, if I will bow down this rebellious, stubborn pride of mine, and consent—"
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Nine twelve bloodflows chiding her childless
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He was fifty, an amateur poet and seasonal vagabond, childless and divorced
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He was a childless widower with ten acres
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Three months later I was a childless widow with nothing to live for
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"My father was neither better nor worse than a miller near the city of York; and both he and my mother dying whilst I was an infant, I fell under the care of a widow and childless aunt, housekeeper to my lord N
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But he lived with his wife on such terms that their affectionate childless home life
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Whatever the explanation, business was brisk despite the unsettled times and life was about as good as a childless widower could have asked for
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Stormy was seven years old when her parents died in a plane crash, seven and a half when she was adopted by a wealthy, childless couple in Beverly Hills
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Why should that uncouth pair sit here childless while the place crumbles about their ears? I will not disguise from you that I have taken a dislike to Beryl
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Both of these interpretations stress the incentives presented by yibbum, “a rite which must be performed when a man who has a living brother dies childless
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Both are childless, and he won’t leave the house to the National Trust, which he regards as some sort of communist institution that robs the wealthy of their property
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Secretly, shamefully, every childless year that passed brought a kind of relief
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Featherstone, and had died childless years ago, so that her nephews and nieces might be supposed to touch the affections of the widower
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persuasion that her brother Peter Featherstone could never leave his chief property away from his blood-relations:—else, why had the Almighty carried off his two wives both childless, after he had gained so much by manganese and things, turning up when nobody expected it?— and why was there a Lowick parish church, and the Waules and Powderells all sit ting in the same pew for generations, and the Featherstone pew next to them, if, the Sunday after her brother Peter's death, everybody was to know that the property was gone out of the family? The human mind has at no period accepted a moral chaos; and so preposterous a result was not strictly conceivable
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But if ever I've begged and prayed; it's been to God above; though where there's one brother a bachelor and the other childless after twice marrying—anybody might think!"
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oppressive: to sit like a model for Saint Catherine looking rapturously at Celia's baby would not do for many hours in the day, and to remain in that momentous babe's presence with persistent disregard was a course that could not have been tolerated in a childless sister
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This possibility was quite hidden from Celia, who felt that Dorothea's childless widowhood fell in quite prettily with the birth of little Arthur (baby was named after Mr
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And Celia the matron naturally felt more able to advise her childless sister
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Do you remember when Insley and her dancing-monkey husband made us come over to admire their baby, and we did the obligatory visit to their strangely perfect, overflowered, overmuffined house for brunch and baby-meeting and they were so self-righteous and patronizing of our childless state, and meanwhile there was their hideous boy, covered in streaks of slobber and stewed carrots and maybe some feces—naked except for a frilly bib and a pair of knitted booties—and as I sipped my orange juice, you leaned over and whispered, “That’s what I’ll be wearing later
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And that was King Edrnur, last of the line of Anbrion, and childless, and he came never back
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Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner "She left him childless after three years and married a man in Khost
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This was Malvintseva, Princess Mary’s aunt on her mother’s side, a rich, childless widow who always lived in Voronezh
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Providence has blessed my endeavours to secure a competency; and as I am unmarried and childless, I wish to adopt her during my life, and bequeath her at my death whatever I may have to leave
