| Single men and those with families, wives, widows and spinsters could all be found in the movement. |
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| Bachelors and spinsters continued to be common and the age of marriage remained high. |
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| The proximity to Spinner Lane may indicate that some of the cottages could have housed spinsters. |
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| Unmarried women over twenty were considered spinsters, and bachelors in their late twenties were subjected to public censure and mockery. |
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| Both widows and spinsters were prominent in property ownership and in financing businesses as sleeping partners. |
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| Ann Street started life as an out-of-the-way address for well-to-do widows and spinsters. |
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| If blame is to be laid, it should be at the feet of a handful of aged and godly spinsters and widows who taught me through my primary education. |
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| What is to be regretted, however, is the demise of all those conscientious spinsters and widows who used to type authors' manuscripts. |
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| As early as 1883 Canadian Prime Minister John A. Macdonald considered giving the vote to propertied widows and spinsters. |
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| Looked at another way, what about the two elderly spinsters who have loved and supported each other and shared a home for decades? |
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| Tall, he was, with wavy brown hair, and with eyes of that shade of blue which so appeals to elderly spinsters. |
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| Youths, who remained bachelors and spinsters due to their economic backwardness, were identified and provided with the required cash and materials for settling down in life. |
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| The advice literature reiterated this view in the 1830s, '40s, and '50s, and the theme of true marriage and moral spinsters persisted into the last decades of the century. |
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| The experience of these nineteenth-century spinsters cannot be divorced from their language because it structured their experience, indeed, it made their experience possible. |
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| It took six spinsters to feed each handloom used to weave thread into cloth. |
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| Upright, herons and their egret cousins have the gaunt, hunched air of sharp-eyed spinsters dressed for an Edwardian salon. |
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| The cleaned and carded wool would then be spun by spinsters. |
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| Not that single men of today do not have the same taste as the bachelors or spinsters of those days but it so happened that during that period the circumstances were unique. |
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| He is a gigolo, a love 'em and leave 'em flimflam man who promises widows and spinsters marriage and devotion on the premise of a substantial upfront cash payment. |
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| The handsome conman earns his livelihood by marrying desperate, love-starved spinsters and runs away with their possessions once the nuptials are consummated. |
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| Four elderly spinsters, without means of support, asked to be dismissed. |
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| And the fact that rich Chinese elsewhere are bidding up the price of brides will make the problem even worse. Nor are there spare Chinese spinsters sitting on the shelf. |
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| The attentions of passionate spinsters were an occupational hazard for all members of the clergy. |
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| During marriages, spinsters of the household stand behind the bride and groom, holding an oil lamp to ward off evil. |
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| The striking lack of yarn in the wool industry, one of the most important sectors of the British economy, led to attempts to mechanise the work of the spinsters. |
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