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widowhood
1. During the years of his widowhood Mr
2. to you in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come on you in their perfection for the multitude of
3. works and inventions, therefore says God, 49 I will send plagues on you; widowhood, poverty, famine, sword, and pestilence, to waste
4. 6 And she fasted all the days of her widowhood, save the eves of the Sabbaths, and the
5. pulled off the sackcloth which she had on, and put off the garments of her widowhood, and washed her body all over with water, and
6. put off the garment of her widowhood for the exaltation of those who were oppressed in Israel, and anointed her face with ointment,
7. 31 And Tamar rose up and put off the garments of her widowhood, and she put a vail on her, and she entirely covered herself, and she went and sat in the public thoroughfare, which is on the road to Timnah
8. 19 And she arose, and went away, and laid by her vail from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood
9. the garments of her widowhood
10. 31 And Tamar rose up and put off the garments of her widowhood and she put a vail on her and she entirely covered herself and she went and sat in the public thoroughfare which is on the road to Timnah
11. 48 you have followed her that is hated in all her works and inventions therefore says God 49 I will send plagues on you; widowhood poverty famine sword and pestilence to waste your houses with destruction and death
12. 6 And she fasted all the days of her widowhood save the eves of the Sabbaths and the Sabbaths and the eves of the new moons and the new moons and the feasts and solemn days of the house of Israel
13. 2 She rose where she had fallen down and called her maid and went down into the house in the which she abode in the Sabbath Days and in her feast days 3 And pulled off the sackcloth which she had on and put off the garments of her widowhood and washed her body all over with water and anointed herself with precious ointment and braided the hair of her head and put on a tire on it and put on her garments of gladness with which she was clad during the life of Manassehs her husband
14. 8 For she put off the garment of her widowhood for the exaltation of those who were oppressed in Israel and anointed her face with ointment and bound her hair in a tire and took a linen garment to deceive him
15. garments of her widowhood
16. Widowhood, and childlessness, and solitariness, tempt many to feel weary of life, though everything which money can obtain is within their reach
17. If you see, when a man is gravely ill, his wife fears that she’s on the verge of widowhood and all that goes with it
18. Again Frau Dremmel, as she had done that day at Meuk, turned her eyes slowly all over her while she was receiving her son's abstracted kiss; but she said nothing except, to her son, _Guten Tag_, and passively submitted to Ingeborg's shaking both her hands, which were clothed in the black cotton of decent widowhood
19. counterfeit maidenhead, some consolation for the sort of widowhood I
20. Cole, on the foot of her usual caution, was in no haste to fill up; but then it redoubled her attention to procure me, in the advantages of a traffic for a counterfeit maidenhead, some consolation for the sort of widowhood I had been left in; and this was a scheme she had never lost prospect of, and only waited for a proper person to bring it to bear with
21. Widowhood had crowded closely on the heels of marriage but, to her dismay, motherhood soon followed
22. And the black crepe veil on her bonnet had to reach to her knees, and only after three years of widowhood could it be shortened to shoulder length
23. But they treated her deferentially, as if she were old and finished, and their constant chatter of dances and beaux made her both envious of their pleasures and resentful that her widowhood barred her from such activities
24. Ellen had hinted before the wedding that marriage was something women must bear with dignity and fortitude, and the whispered comments of other matrons since her widowhood had confirmed this
25. She did not see that Rhett had pried open the prison of her widowhood and set her free to queen it over unmarried girls when her days as a belle should have been long past
26. But in these exciting days her widowhood and her motherhood weighed less heavily upon her than ever before
27. Will Ladislaw was one of the busiest at this time; and though Dorothea's widowhood was continually in his thought, he was so far from wishing to be spoken to on the subject, that when Lydgate sought him out to tell him what had passed about the Lowick living, he answered rather waspishly—
28. 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
29. It was of no avail that the pavements of Paris were there on every side, the classic and splendid hotels of the Rue de Varennes a couple of paces away, the dome of the Invalides close at hand, the Chamber of Deputies not far off; the carriages of the Rue de Bourgogne and of the Rue SaintDominique rumbled luxuriously, in vain, in the vicinity, in vain did the yellow, brown, white, and red omnibuses cross each other's course at the neighboring cross-roads; the Rue Plumet was the desert; and the death of the former proprietors, the revolution which had passed over it, the crumbling away of ancient fortunes, absence, forgetfulness, forty years of abandonment and widowhood, had sufficed to restore to this privileged spot ferns, mulleins, hemlock, yarrow, tall weeds, great crimped plants, with large leaves of pale green cloth, lizards, beetles, uneasy and rapid insects; to cause to spring forth from the depths of the earth and to reappear between those four walls a certain indescribable and savage grandeur; and for nature, which disconcerts the petty arrangements of man, and which sheds herself always thoroughly where she diffuses herself at all, in the ant as well as in the eagle, to blossom out in a petty little Parisian garden with as much rude force and majesty as in a virgin forest of the New World
30. Poor old Jean Valjean certainly did not love Cosette otherwise than as a father; but we have already remarked, above, that into this paternity the widowhood of his life had introduced all the shades of love; he loved Cosette as his daughter, and he loved her as his mother, and he loved her as his sister; and, as he had never had either a woman to love or a wife, as nature is a creditor who accepts no protest, that sentiment also, the most impossible to lose, was mingled with the rest, vague, ignorant, pure with the purity of blindness,
31. He lives alone, which renders him a little sad, perhaps; Enjolras complains of his greatness, which binds him to widowhood
32. Florentino Ariza had stripped her of the virginity of a conventional marriage, more pernicious than congenital virginity or the abstinence of widowhood
33. Widowhood had so embittered her that she did not seem the same person; it had made her flabby and sour and the enemy of the world
34. The proof that death had at last interceded on his behalf filled him with the courage he needed to repeat his vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love to Fermina Daza on her-first night of widowhood
35. That first year had been enough time for her to adjust to her widowhood
36. ” With the first loneliness of her widowhood she had understood that the phrase did not conceal the miserable threat that she had attributed to it at the time, but was the lodestone that had given them both so many happy hours
37. Urbino Daza wanted to thank Florentino Ariza for the good companionship he gave his mother in the solitude of her widowhood, he begged him to continue doing so for the good of them both and the convenience of all, and to have patience with her senile whims
38. She could not understand how a man capable of the thoughts that had given her the strength to endure her widowhood could become entangled in so childish a manner when he attempted to apply them to his own life
39. Could there be a crueler irony of fate than to be absolutely convinced of the widowhood of her you love and to be unable, practically, to establish the fact?
40. To say that Deena missed him but feebly expresses the void his going made in her life, but, knowing her own heart, and suspecting the state of his, she was glad to be spared his presence in these early days of widowhood, and could not but approve his decision
41. “Oh, you old bachelors!” laughed Dickie’s mother, and sailed away to spend her second season of widowhood abroad
