In the course of her work as suffragette organiser Miss Schuster, a spinster, we are told, used to firebomb pillar boxes. |
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Bening plays the spirited Sue Barlow, a spinster who has waited to meet the right man. |
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Only God can help if you are wheatish you will probably die an old spinster. |
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Nietzsche's alpha grandmother and two spinster aunts treated his meek, young mother like a hanger-on. |
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Beginning to think you are going to be left on the shelf forever and end up as an elderly spinster dying alone and being eaten by your own cats? |
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He also came to know a half-witted spinster who, having stolen a yard or two of cloth from a weaver, was to be hanged for it. |
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Being a prim and proper spinster, Jane Austen did not use the family scandal in any of her novels. |
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The boy has won a hand of piquet, and the spinster has noticed that he has difficulty enjoying triumphs. |
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I want you to realize that are better choices than being a lonely spinster. |
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His cantankerous old mother and frustrated spinster sister are a constant drain on his increasingly shaky resources. |
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Physically, she brilliantly embodied the shrewd, sharp-eyed, owlish spinster, while also conveying her intuitive acumen and razor-sharp mind. |
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Mme D. likes to pull strings, and uses her pallid lady's companion, the spinster Capulat, as her factotum. |
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Against a soundtrack of depressing spinster ballads from Natalie Merchant and tori Amos, the images flooded the room. |
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The dubitations of a Bostonian spinster may be made as interesting, by one genius, as a fight between a crocodile and a catawampus, by another genius. |
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Miriam Turner, an English spinster in her fifties moved to a new neighborhood in London to practice fortune telling. |
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One afternoon she had a nice visit with her friend Eileen Carter, a well-fixed spinster. |
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There were, though, other loves that belied the appearance of a desiccated, workaholic spinster. |
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With a dismal home life and no prospects for advancement at the millinery store, the lonely spinster has little hope of escape through marriage. |
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Winter, readers, has arrived, taking up residence with all the bulk and temerity of a spinster aunt come to visit, laden with cats and carpet bags. |
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Susan, a spinster who has never been kissed, has named me as the man she wants to end this unfortunate situation with. |
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With Aventis tying the knot, and Roche a committed spinster, there is no obvious spouse. |
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A little while later, an elderly spinster, Isabelle Quéru, shivering from the cold, timidly knocked at the door. |
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Let it be known that she's a maid no more, and no man will take her-she'll be disgraced, and live a spinster to the end of her days. |
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La Rosa del Azafrán' tells the story of an impossible love between Sagrario, a spinster millionaire, and a day worker who farms her land. |
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She sleeps all day and all the villagers are convinced that she will remain a spinster. |
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Her students, as cruel as they are beautiful and privileged, treat her as a curiosity while they try to decide if she's cool or on the downhill slide into spinster misery. |
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Eventually, Peter moves into the house too, also shared by a slightly loopy spinster, Miss Byron, and the pair feel free to reject society's expectations by acting up. |
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An ageing spinster behind a bar would far rather discuss the finer points of her son's regrettable taste in women than serve you a beer in under half an hour. |
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The veil was lifted and the eyes moved in close, so close that I imagined I could see clear into her twenty-something spinster soul and the lonely yearning girl beyond. |
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Why, one might ask, are the matrons of this little village procuring the potions of a black-clad spinster to poison their lumpen, ruddy old husbands? |
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Her novels are not, as some insist on thinking, the helplessly romantic effusions of a repressed spinster. |
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Indeed, these adolescent, spinster, perhaps sapphic women wrote journals, lyrics, fantastic tales, and stories mediated by the spirits who guided their pens. |
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This would account for his action in jetting to Australia and proposing marriage to Doctor Winifred Coburn, a horse-faced spinster semantician nine years his senior. |
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The maid was a verjuiced spinster, too old to love herself, and too ill-natured to look on. |
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Ass-kicking, bad guy-killing Carter is just a future spinster. |
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One of Rome's eternal stories is that of the bookish spinster from a cold clime, whose life has its late spring in Italy, and who loses her inhibitions, amid the ruins, with a man like Giovanni Ossoli. |
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To her credit, Germain piquantly executes the inevitable transition from repressed spinster to infatuated maiden. |
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A TERRIFIED 47-year-old spinster woke to find a man breaking into her flat in Birmingham's bed-sitter land. |
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A wry spinster, a sonorous priest, a reformed party girl, and a cantankerous Cape Breton matriarch, are all witnesses to a twenty-year interrupted love story. |
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A copy was secured in our village, no doubt by some lovelorn wife or spinster, and was loaned by the page because all were avid to read this tormenting love story and all identified with it. |
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Only seven months after his arrival on an Ontario farm in 1895 Green was dead, his limbs gangrenous and his body emaciated and covered with sores, the visible marks of the cruel treatment dealt him by his spinster employer. |
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The elderly spinster at Somerville College Oxford who taught me Norman history, had the edge on each of these exemplars by dint of her surface innocuousness. |
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As for the other, she'll do anything she can to humiliate her spinster daughter before others if she thinks it will hold the young'un in her thrall. |
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Millie has decided that she and Beatrix are going to be friends and is overjoyed that Beatrix is a spinster, as is Millie, who believes men to be nothing but bores. |
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If a gentlewoman be termed a spinster, she may abate the writ. |
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I didn't even remember that I was wearing my spinster lingerie until the underwire bra and granny panties were off my body and lying at the foot of the bed. |
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