Use "old maid" in a sentence

1. eighty years old if she was a day, alone and surely decrepit, an old maid who had

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2. 'As for being an old maid, that's entirely unfair

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3. She wasn’t at all happy that I've given Kevin the old heave-ho … and I could have done without her comments about becoming an old maid, however humorously presented

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4. They resented me and by the time I was twenty-three, the term 'Old Maid' was used with more frequency

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5. I began to think she would become an Old Maid,

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6. Mama often worried that I would end up an old maid

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7. Becoming an “Old Maid” was considered a disgrace

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8. I suppose it was some of them confounded old maids at the Glen, was it

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9. But a bitter old maid

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10. Someone said that one old maid passed out in the back row

11. "Oh I know you think of me as an unworldly old maid who can't tell you youngsters a thing

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12. “Maybe then you can get a hot chick instead of that dirty old maid!”

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13. A lonely "old maid" bemoaned the fact that she was not attractive to the opposite sex and that she was destined to a life of loneliness

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14. In Caleb Rudd’s case apparently, the ‘old maid’ had taken ‘-quite a shine to him and it might be interesting to teach her a thing or two

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15. Ralph's a real old maid--lived with his Mom 'til the day she died

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16. ‘’Vikings, bringing two women with them on a scouting expedition?’’ Replied Jean with a smile that finally reassured the old maid

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17. The old maid soon came back with a wooden bucket full of water and a hard brush in her hands

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18. The mention of a ‘flying ship’ was enough to make the old maid make the sign of the cross from fear and apprehension

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19. an old maid cleaning the corners of the round castle

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20. wil be an old maid by then!”

21. I’m Eloise, the old maid around here

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22. I mean to be a very happy old maid

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23. And sometimes Miss Entwhistle even doubted whether it was this that mattered to her at all,--whether it was not rather some quite small things that she really objected to: a want of fastidiousness, for instance, a forgetfulness of the minor courtesies,--the objections, in a word, she told herself smiling, of an old maid

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24. He couldn't believe he wasn't going to be able to have what he wished, and only because an old maid said 'No

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25. rid of) the old maid";that is, he will take one of the

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26. , a 65-year-old maiden lady who had a stroke or cerebral

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27. For me the man that is proud and feels how it stings to be slighted, For me the sweet-heart and the old maid, for me mothers and the

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28. "Then we'll be old maids," said Jo stoutly

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29. Better be happy old maids than unhappy wives, or unmaidenly girls, running about to find husbands," said Mrs

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30. Some of the best and most honored women I know were poor girls, but so love-worthy that they were not allowed to be old maids

31. Nobody will want me, and it's a mercy, for there should always be one old maid in a family

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32. "An old maid, that's what I'm to be

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33. Well, I needn't be a sour saint nor a selfish sinner, and, I dare say, old maids are very comfortable when they get used to it, but

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34. At twenty-five, girls begin to talk about being old maids, but secretly resolve that they never will be

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35. Gentlemen, which means boys, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chivalry worth having is that which is the readiest to pay deference to the old, protect the feeble, and serve womankind, regardless of rank, age, or color

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36. In spite of her vapourish airs (as the housewives of Yonville called them), Emma, all the same, never seemed gay, and usually she had at the corners of her mouth that immobile contraction that puckers the faces of old maids, and those of men whose ambition has failed

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37. Edy Boardman was noticing it too because she was squinting at Gerty, half smiling, with her specs like an old maid, pretending to nurse the baby

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38. The elder man, though not by any manner of means an old maid or a prude, said it was nothing short of a crying scandal that ought to be put a stop to instanter to say that women of that stamp (quite apart from any oldmaidish squeamishness on the subject), a necessary evil, w ere not licensed and medically inspected by the proper authorities, a thing, he could truthfully state, he, as a paterfamilias, was a stalwart advocate of from the very first start

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39. ones she could find at the bottom of the basket anything at all to get into a mans bedroom with her old maids voice trying to imagine he was dying on account of her to never see thy face again though he looked more like a man with his beard a bit grown in the bed father was the same besides I hate bandaging and dosing when he cut his toe with the razor paring his corns afraid hed get bloodpoisoning but if it was a thing I was sick then wed see what attention only of course the woman hides it not to give all the trouble they do yes he came somewhere Im sure by his appetite anyway love its not or hed be off his feed thinking of her so either it was one of those night women if it was down there he was really and the hotel story he made up a pack of lies to hide it planning it Hynes kept me who did I meet ah yes I met do you remember Menton and who else who let me see that big babbyface I saw him and he not long married flirting with a young girl at Pooles Myriorama and turned my back on him when he slinked out looking quite conscious what harm but he had the impudence to make up to me one time well done to him mouth almighty and his boiled eyes of all the big stupoes I ever met and thats called a solicitor only for I hate having a long wrangle in bed or else if its not that its some little bitch or other he got in with somewhere or picked up on the sly if they only knew him as well as I do yes because the day before yesterday he was scribbling something a letter when I came into the front room to show him Dignams death in the paper as if something told me and he covered it up with the blottingpaper pretending to be thinking about business so very probably that was it to somebody who thinks she has a softy in him because all men get a bit like that at his age especially getting on to forty he is now so as to wheedle any money she can out of him no fool like an old fool and then the usual kissing my bottom was to hide it not that I care two straws now who he does it with or knew before that way though Id like to find out so long as I dont have the two of them under my nose all the time like that slut that Mary we had in Ontario terrace padding out her false bottom to excite him bad enough to get the smell of those painted women off him once or twice I had a suspicion by getting him to come near me when I found the long hair on his coat without that one when I went into the kitchen pretending he was drinking water 1 woman is not enough for them it was all his fault of course ruining servants then proposing that she could eat at our table on Christmas day if you please O no thank you not in my house stealing my potatoes and the oysters 2/6 per doz going out to see her aunt if you please common robbery so it was but I was sure he had something on with that one it takes me to find out a thing like that he said you have no proof it was her proof O yes her aunt was very fond of oysters but I told her what I thought of her suggesting me to go out to be alone with her I wouldnt lower myself to spy on them the garters I found in her room the Friday she was out that was enough for me a little bit too much her face swelled up on her with temper when I gave her her weeks notice I saw to that better do without them altogether do out the rooms myself quicker only for the damn cooking and throwing out the dirt I gave it to him anyhow either she or me leaves the house I couldnt even touch him if I thought he was with a dirty barefaced liar and sloven like that one denying it up to my face and singing about the place in the W C too because she knew she was too well off yes because he couldnt possibly do without it that long so he must do it somewhere and the last time he came on my bottom when was it the night

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40. theyre all so different Boylan talking about the shape of my foot he noticed at once even before he was introduced when I was in the D B C with Poldy laughing and trying to listen I was waggling my foot we both ordered 2 teas and plain bread and butter I saw him looking with his two old maids of sisters when I stood up and asked the girl where it was what do I care with it dropping out of me and that black closed breeches he made me buy takes you half an hour to let them down wetting all myself always with some brandnew fad every other week such a long one I did I forgot my suede gloves on the seat behind that I never got after some robber of a woman and he wanted me to put it in the Irish times lost in the ladies lavatory D B C Dame street finder return to Mrs Marion Bloom and I saw his eyes on my feet going out through the turning door he was looking when I looked back and I went there for tea 2 days after in the hope but he wasnt now how did that excite him because I was crossing them when we were in the other room first he meant the shoes that are too tight to walk in my hand is nice like that if I only had a ring with the stone for my month a nice aquamarine Ill stick him for one and a gold bracelet I dont like my foot so much still I made him spend once with my foot the night after Goodwins botchup of a concert so cold and windy it was well we had that rum in the house to mull and the fire wasnt black out when he asked to take off my stockings lying on the hearthrug in Lombard street west and another time it was my muddy boots hed like me to walk in all the horses dung I could find but of course hes not natural like the rest of the world that I what did he say I could give 9 points in 10 to Katty Lanner and beat her what does that mean I asked him I forget what he said because the stoppress edition just passed and the man with the curly hair in the Lucan dairy thats so polite I think I saw his face before somewhere I noticed him when I was tasting the butter so I took my time Bartell dArcy too that he used to make fun of when he commenced kissing me on the choir stairs after I sang Gounods Ave Maria what are we waiting for O my heart kiss me straight on the brow and part which is my brown part he was pretty hot for all his tinny voice too my low notes he was always raving about if you can believe him I liked the way he used his mouth singing then he said wasnt it terrible to do that there in a place like that I dont see anything so terrible about it Ill tell him about that some day not now and surprise him ay and Ill take him there and show him the very place too we did it so now

41. One day out in a country lane I met Theresa Wright, her old maid

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42. The two Miss Allertons are charmingly quaint and kind, two dear little hard-working old maids, who are ready to lavish all the heart which might have gone out to husband and to children upon an invalid stranger

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43. Truly, the old maid is a most useful person, one of the reserve forces of the community

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44. Shtcherbatsky told the old maid of honor, Madame Nikolaeva, that he meant to put the crown on Kitty’s chignon for luck

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45. If I couldn’t catch a better beau than that old maid in britches! she thought contemptuously, as she stepped to the ground and smiled her thanks to John Wilkes

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46. Poor India! It would be bad enough to have being twenty years old and an old maid in the bargain

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47. die old maids

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48. As he fussed over her, clucking like a hen, she gave herself up to the luxury of being was only that old maid in pants, Frank Kennedy

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49. Even if she worked on his sympathies and his duty toward his future family getting more and more worried over the fact that she was practically an old maid and she would move heaven and earth to prevent anything from delaying her marriage

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50. “I’d think a man as fussy and old maidish as Frank would keep things tidier,” she thought, scrubbing her grimy hands with her handkerchief

51. To save her own reputation and his wife’s happiness, India had to be sacrificed, forced into the light of a lying, half-crazed, jealous old maid—India who was absolutely justified

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52. champion the cause of a guilty woman, especially a woman guilty with her own husband? No, indeed! India was just a cracked old maid who hated Scarlett and lied about her and induced Archie and Mrs

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53. could see as well as possible how he smiled down at the little old maid

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54. To bury yourself in a convent would be selfishness; to remain an old maid is to fail in duty

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55. She has the noblest qualities of sorrow, the saintliness of one who has never soiled her soul by contact with the world; but she has also the rigid bearing of an old maid and the petty habits inseparable from the narrow round of provincial life

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56. What is she, nineteen? Twenty? The poor thing, she’s practically an old maid, complete with shriveled-up lady parts

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57. Whatever was spoken of he would bring round to the superstitiousness of old maids, or the petting and spoiling of children

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58. ‘You want to make him’- little Nicholas- ‘into an old maid like yourself! A pity! Prince Andrew wants a son and not an old maid,’ he would say

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59. Such were Dimmler the musician and his wife, Vogel the dancing master and his family, Belova, an old maiden lady, an inmate of the house, and many others such as Petya’s tutors, the girls’ former governess, and other people who simply found it preferable and more advantageous to live in the count’s house than at home

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60. There an old maidservant was grumbling at a young girl who stood panting, having just run in through the cold from the serfs’ quarters

61. What else was there for an old maid? I was a crazy creature with a headful of carnival spangles until I was thirty, and then the only man I ever really cared for stopped waiting and married someone else

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62. It was entrance into tree-nozzling dogs, men, old maids, birds, children at hopscotch, lovers on their morning beds, into workers asweat with shovelling, into unborn babies pink, dream-small brains

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63. There were tall old maiden houses, lean and narrow and wisely wan, in which were spectacles of coloured glass, upon which the thinned golden hair of age-old bird nests sprouted

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64. He had the most utterly wondrous fun with a group of old maiden ladies who were mashed in a car on their way to an afternoon tea

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65. An old maid, at her service one afternoon, was the victim of a terrible device

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66. The second was mostly Fannie and her 380 pounds, along with two old maid sisters from Spain, a jewelry salesman from Egypt, and two ladies from Monterey who, it was rumored, sold their favors at no great price, to any lost and lustful pool player who happened to stumble upstairs, uncaring, late Friday nights

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67. There were tall old maiden houses, lean and narrow and wisely wan, in which were spectacles of colored glass, upon which the thinned golden hair of age-old bird nests sprouted

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68. ‘Old maid!’ shouted the woman

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69. ‘Old maid! Old maid! Old maid!’

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70. "Old maid!" shouted the woman

71. "Old maid! Old maid! Old maid!"

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72. She seemed, she told her, an old maid of twenty

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73. But he's going to see a skinny old maid in Millersville now, and I guess she'll take him fast enough

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74. Of old maids the divinity,

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75. In July, two months before I came to Petersburg, when my time was all my own, Marie Ivanovna asked me to go to see an old maiden lady who was staying in the Troitsky suburb to take her a message of no interest for my story

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76. She was an ill-tampered, snub-nosed Finnish woman, and I believe hated her mistress Tatyana Pavlovna, while the latter, on the contrary, could not bring herself to part with her from a peculiar sort of infatuation, such as old maids sometimes show for damp-nosed pug dogs, or somnolent cats

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77. " Mademoiselle, either remain an old maid or become a princess and a millionaire

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78. She was twenty-five now, and must be fated to be an old maid, and “with such beauty, too!” The mother spent whole nights in weeping and lamenting, while all the time the cause of her grief slumbered peacefully

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79. Destiny had kept her too long an old maid

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80. " It was the old maid, Virginsky's relation

81. He could hear Virginsky checking her; but the old maid pushed him away and would not desist

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82. The same old maid who had brought about my acquaintance with the blonde beauty was at once besieged with entreaties from all the younger people to remain at home and let me have her seat

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83. She was an old maid

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84. "But he is a fool, and she is a dumb old maid

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85. Next to him sat a University student who was coaching him, and Missy’s cousin, Michael Sergeivitch Telegin, generally called Misha; opposite him, Katerina Alexeevna, a 40-year-old maiden lady, a Slavophil; and at the foot of the table sat Missy herself, with an empty place by her side

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86. Poor Hellen told me at the time you lived at the old maids' house that, I believe, they wished you to marry their ward

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87. “You want to make him”—little Nicholas—“into an old maid like yourself! A pity! Prince Andrew wants a son and not an old maid,” he would say

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88. Such were Dimmler the musician and his wife, Vogel the dancing master and his family, Belóva, an old maiden lady, an inmate of the house, and many others such as Pétya’s tutors, the girls’ former governess, and other people who simply found it preferable and more advantageous to live in the count’s house than at home

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89. “Now to tell one’s fortune in the empty bathhouse is frightening!” said an old maid who lived with the Melyukóvs, during supper

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90. “Really, this general flight has been arranged to get all the old maids married off

91. Yet so inexhaustible is that store of old maids’ love that, despite the number of individuals so selected, there still remains an abundant surplus of affection which they lavish upon all by whom they are surrounded—upon all, good or bad, whom they may chance to meet in their daily life

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92. They found Klausoff's sister, Maria Ivanovna, an old maid of forty-five, at prayer before the big case of family icons

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93. It was not only that she was putting to death a weed, a profligate—she was freeing the world of an antichrist!—and there, in her opinion, was her service, her religious achievement! Oh, you don't know those old maids of the Old Faith

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94. She had her good p’ints, that old maid did, drat her!

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95. were creatures far beneath the regard of a New England old maid? She asked him questions, she was as interested as could be in his father’s plans for him

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96. THE OLD MAID'S VILLAGE

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97. "Do you know," she cried, "I have just learned that we were about to leave the place without visiting one of its greatest curiosities? We have narrowly escaped going without having seen the 'Old Maid's Village!'"

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98. "The 'Old Maid's Village!'" I echoed, stupidly

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