Last Monday, I told my girlfriends at work that this whole football widow business was driving me crazy. |
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You'd make a good psychologist, executioner, black widow, arsenic poisoner, heretic queen or commentator. |
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Following his death, his widow Ruth, who was just 27, quit Wiltshire and returned home to America. |
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The agony aunt's first quest is to help golf widow Joy to persuade husband Martin to spend more time with her and their three children. |
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She had her own pension from the Ministry of Defence as a war widow as well as a state pension. |
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He followed the story of a widow whose ceremony took place in the sacred river of Pouktiou. |
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Evening Press readers are rallying round a war widow who was robbed of her life savings by a heartless conwoman. |
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Now it happened that the lot fell on the only son of a widow who approached the close of her life, and who lived near the king's stronghold. |
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Miss Grimes's distinctive voice and manner cut through the tedium even as she makes her first acidulous comment about the widow Harbury. |
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In 1736 Calderwood married Elinor Streeter, widow of the jeweller and lapidary William Streeter. |
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On her husband's death, a widow usually foresees a life full of harassment and humiliation. |
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Having won the fight, Hamlet married his brother's widow Gertrude who acquired the status of jointress rather than that of queen dowager. |
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The husband dying soon after this connection, Stanley became more at liberty to pay his addresses to the widow. |
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A frail widow was brutally robbed of her life savings in her own home by a violent thug who left her with a broken arm and leg. |
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If you can't get to that point, then I'd give you the same advice I gave this hockey widow, only in fishing language. |
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Last year his widow sought a High Court order making her administrator of his estate to allow her to collect any cash. |
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If at the time of her death, a widow leaves no eligible minor child, the payment of her share of the pension will cease. |
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His widow yesterday told of her astonishment at discovering her husband's debts after his death. |
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On 6th January 1759 he married Martha Dandridge Custis, by repute the wealthiest widow in Virginia. |
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After Goldensohn's death, his widow sold some of his papers and bequeathed the rest to her children. |
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Through text she reanimates the dreams of her concierge, a widow obsessed with the memory of her dead husband, though her husband remains dead. |
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Married to a widow, Martha Dandridge Custis, he devoted himself to a busy and happy life. |
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A Totton widow has pledged to fulfil a promise to her dying husband and continue his battle for justice after his death. |
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A female guest was also seriously injured when she was forced to leap from a first floor widow to escape. |
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One can understand that the widow of the dead man, Marie Ward, might feel aggrieved at the outcome. |
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When a white colleague died, an Afro-Caribbean asked their mutual white friend to join him in calling on the widow. |
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Upon the death of a husband, a widow chooses a husband from among the dead man's brothers. |
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The widow, who was 56 at the time, had been on plenty of dates but she still hadn't met the right man. |
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Upon the death of the husband, the widow generally stays on the land, but only if she pays the sub-headman. |
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He believed that the Liberals were in a better position to weather the regency of Alfonso's widow and prevent Carlist or republican revolts. |
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After his death, his widow Janaki had the good sense to collect these loose sheets and send them to Hardy. |
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Instead, the aging widow Bernarda Alba personifies self-hatred and the ability of women to enforce the rules of men upon themselves. |
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The plaintiff was the widow of a man killed in a criminal affray. |
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Also, I look at my mum and see that she's a bit of a golf widow. |
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I sneakily bought some good tickets months ago and they are coming into play to thank her for being such a good rugby widow sport during this world cup. |
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Of course, the occasional frustrated chess widow may throw a plate or two. |
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Did Mia stop to think how her coy tease might be perceived by the widow Sinatra? |
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The widow Sofia pleased God with her prayers, fasting, and almsgiving. |
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Founded by the young, wealthy widow Ludovica Torelli in 1535, the convent of San Paolo issued from the yeasty religious experimentation of the early sixteenth century. |
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A lonely widow repining for the past while enduring the boisterous attentions of her clumsy Irish housekeeper encounters a cripple collecting money for an invalid hospital. |
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That was accomplished by cops such as the one whose picture was clutched so tightly by his widow on Sunday. |
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Liu had been married just two months before and his wife now stood in this Brooklyn hospital, a sudden widow because of a madman. |
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That is so and, indeed, somewhat the distinction might be rights at law and rights in equity because at law the widow always has the ability to enforce the contract. |
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Although Banalata is not formally defined as a widow because she never married, she is still subject to social conventions that make her a second-class citizen. |
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John Carey spent his last weeks at the hospice receiving unparalleled care that gave him a dignity in death that his widow, Carol, has never forgotten. |
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Next, the security services are talking up a black widow cell of up to 30 women trained in Chechnya. |
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As bree is meticulously polishing her silver, she dissolves from control freak into grieving widow. |
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A grieving widow who has travelled from China for the funeral of her student son told how his hit-and-run death has left her a broken woman facing financial ruin. |
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A Vietnam war widow has made an emotional appeal for help after burglars stole her late husband's medals and the birth certificate of their dead baby daughter. |
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He is at his best when relieving a skinflint widow of her wealth, sorting out a king's love life or abandoning a band of raggle-taggle Gypsies to become an itinerant actor. |
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Later, through sheer coincidence, the adman falls for the victim's widow. |
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The right of action for wrongful death given by statute for the benefit of a widow for the death of her husband has been held not to be divested by her subsequent marriage. |
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We have confirmation he was certainly dead by 1502, from the record of an indulgence for his soul paid for by his widow. |
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Fadhma, the illegitimate daughter of a widow, was born in a Kabylie village. |
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His first wife was Isabella of Aragon, princess of Spain and widow of the previous Prince of Portugal Afonso. |
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Marcos and his allies fled to Hawaii and Aquino's widow, Corazon Aquino was recognized as president. |
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Instead, in August of that year, he married Idelette de Bure, a widow who had two children from her first marriage. |
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The issue was not just an abstract problem for Zwingli, as he had secretly married a widow, Anna Reinhard, earlier in the year. |
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Edmund's second marriage to Blanche of Artois, the widow of the King of Navarre, placed him at the centre of the European aristocracy. |
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However, Darby died prematurely in 1717, followed quickly by his widow Mary. |
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The wife of such was declared a widow and all lands owned by him were escheated to the Crown. |
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Stevenson's business was taken over by his widow, Mary, and his son, the third David Stevenson in the family. |
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His widow, Rani Lakshmi Bai, the Rani of Jhansi protested against the denial of rights of their adopted son. |
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Formally the widow still ranches, but in fact she leaves all ranching to the foreman. |
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After the death of her father, she was raised by his widow, Catherine Parr and her husband Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley. |
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When he initially sailed for South Carolina, among his shipmates were the widow and family of the Revolutionary hero Gen. |
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Highs, Kay, Kay's wife and the widow of James Hargreaves all testified that Arkwright had stolen their inventions. |
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He gave a farewell lecture to the Institution, and married a wealthy widow, Jane Apreece. |
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He married a widow, Susanna Grave, on 23 January 1704 at St Bride's Church, London. |
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His half brother, Sir Thomas Lombe, died on 2 June 1739 leaving his estate to his widow and their two daughters. |
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We went to the funeral. The religious service was nice until the widow broke down in tears. |
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After his death, the final organization and editing of the book fell to his widow Marianne Weber. |
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Claudius had murdered his own brother and seized the throne, also marrying his deceased brother's widow. |
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Why should not a widow, having two uncommissioned sons in the army, have her remaining son exempt, as well as if her husband were still living? |
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I had been feeling like a bowling-alley widow, but knew he loved the game, so I suggested we join a mixed league. |
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South east and London Veterans Advisory and Pensions Committees members among war widow helpers at Waterloo station. |
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A WOODEN cross pushed into the ground marks the final resting place of a 100-year-old war widow. |
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A war widow, she has to raise her late husband's baby son on her own and tell him who his father was and how he died fighting in Afghanistan. |
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She, along with translator and fellow war widow Xuan Ngoc Nguyen, explore the meaning of war and loss on a human level. |
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I was made a war widow at 29 and paid plenty of tax because I had to go out to work to bring up two children. |
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Among them was a deadly funnel web spider and a large number of African brown widow spiders. |
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The film gave pretty equal heft to Captain America and black widow. |
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Claudius hastily married King Hamlet's widow, Gertrude, Hamlet's mother, and took the throne for himself. |
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She announced Rs 2 lac for the Kishwar Jehan widow of Syed Anwar Hussain, who was senior sound recordist at PTV and murdered in Karachi. |
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A frail widow was recovering yesterday after a vicious attack by two dogs which also killed her pet Yorkshire terrier. |
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South Africa's antiapartheid icon Nelson Mandela, his widow Graca Machel and former UN chief Kofi Annan have previously been honoured. |
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The senator, a college gridiron star, has a coldly Machiavellian widow. |
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Kaufman's widow, Ellen, and children, Alan Kaufman, Sheree Meyer and Melissa Kaufman, make up Kaufman Family LP, the corporate entity. |
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Reggae star Bob Marley's widow plans to exhume his remains in Jamaica and rebury them in his 'spiritual resting place,' Ethiopia. |
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Owen is said to have secretly married the widow of Henry V, Catherine of Valois. |
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She was a widow hated by most of the town of Carthage, Texas. |
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A mysterious woman who shows up at a funeral more droopily festooned in black than the widow is making what is known as a fashion statement. |
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Now I'm hungry as a Rocky Mountain lion so come, let's go and get this poor, daffy, tealess widow and wine and dine with her and make it all up. |
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Harrison and Starr attended the ceremony with Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, and his two sons, Julian and Sean. |
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Upon his diagnosis, Leaver insisted the real victims are the civilians since he was a first responder, said Rosaria, his widow. |
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A levirate marriage is one where the brother of a dead man is obliged to marry his sibling's widow. |
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McCartney and Starr were among the musicians who performed at the Concert for George, organised by Eric Clapton and Harrison's widow, Olivia. |
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His widow was left financially dependent on her elder sons, who ran a successful business in Guayaquil. |
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First degree consanguinity applied in the case of Henry VIII and his brother's widow Catherine of Aragon. |
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Milne's widow, Daphne Milne, also licensed certain rights, including motion picture rights, to Disney. |
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Hastings was not attainted and Richard sealed an indenture that placed Hastings' widow Katherine directly under his own protection. |
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A teenage burglar high on drugs beat up a 94-year-old widow and left her with irreversible brain damage, a jury was told yesterday. |
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The widow of a Serbian journalist who was murdered shortly before Jill said the executions had the same hallmarks. |
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His widow, Catherine Woodville, later married Jasper Tudor, the uncle of Henry Tudor, who was in the process of organising another rebellion. |
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As the merry widow, she sings with charm and elegance, but little charisma or real sense of glamour. |
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She has been a widow these six or eight years, and has lived, I imagine, in rather a hand-to-mouth fashion. |
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He made a dynastic marriage with Catherine of Aragon, widow of his brother Arthur, in June 1509, just before his coronation on Midsummer's Day. |
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The case of Mme Binet's mother, a young widow who worked as a seamer at home, reveals how this system affected homeworkers. |
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Louis's association with the pious widow, Madame de Maintenon had led to a new tone of piety, even prudery, at court. |
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In 1870, aged 23, Bell, together with Bell's brother's widow, Caroline Margaret Ottaway, and his parents travelled on the SS Nestorian to Canada. |
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Our invigilatrix was my WEA widow, earning a little daytime money by giving out the papers and watching for cheaters. |
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Fleming's widow, Ann, died in 1981 and was buried with her husband and their son. |
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On 28 April 2011 a memorial plaque for Hughes was unveiled at North Tawton by his widow Carol Hughes. |
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After Drake's death, the widow Elizabeth eventually married Sir William Courtenay of Powderham. |
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The Orkneyinga saga reports that Malcolm married the widow of Thorfinn Sigurdsson, Ingibiorg, a daughter of Finn Arnesson. |
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Pound went to Eliot's funeral in London and on to Dublin to visit Yeats's widow. |
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Boudica was the widow of the recently deceased king of the Iceni, Prasutagus. |
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He had turned her adrift, neither a wife, widow, nor maid, and here she was, one of the most estimably lovable and noble women I have ever met. |
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When Edwin died, in about 633, his widow and Paulinus were forced to flee to Kent. |
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Following Edwin's death in battle, in either 633 or 634, Paulinus returned to Kent with Edwin's widow and daughter. |
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James II's son, aged nine or ten, became king as James III, and his widow Mary of Gueldres acted as regent until her own death three years later. |
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A few months after his death, his widow, whose identity is lost, bore him a son, named Andrew. |
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He remarried about 20 February 1364, Margaret Drummond, widow of Sir John Logie, and daughter of Sir Malcolm Drummond. |
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Clothes were also made for her companion, Lady Catherine Gordon, the widow of Perkin Warbeck. |
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Margaret had opposed the war, but was still named in the royal will as regent for the infant king, James V, for as long as she remained a widow. |
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Following Gruffydd's death, Harold married his widow Ealdgyth, though she was to be widowed again three years later. |
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Guest named Clark, his widow Lady Charlotte Guest and Edward Divett as executors and trustees. |
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Lady Guest would be sole trustee while a widow but she remarried in 1855 and de facto control fell to Clark. |
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Wartski Fields were bequeathed to the city and people of Bangor by his widow, Winifred Marie, in memory of Isidore Wartski. |
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Peter Law's widow, Trish Law, won his former Welsh Assembly seat, also running as an independent candidate. |
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In 911 Ealdorman Aethelred died, leaving his widow, Alfred's daughter Aethelflaed, in charge of Mercia. |
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By his will, the residue of his estate was left to his widow Robbie and his papers to the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland. |
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His widow continued to support herself with ballooning demonstrations until it also killed her. |
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These days, Mrs. Kern, an 81-year-old widow, lives alone amid floors rotted in places and some paneless windows. |
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The city's legendary founder, Elissa or Dido, was the widow of Acharbas the high priest of Tyre in service to its principal deity Melqart. |
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Bertha was the widow of Alan de Bretagne with whom she already had a son, Conan. |
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Three pounds was given toward the funeral of a member and 10 pounds to the widow or children. |
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Tancred had imprisoned William's widow, Queen Joan, who was Richard's sister, and did not give her the money she had inherited in William's will. |
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Peggotty, lives in a house built in an upturned boat on the beach, with his adopted relatives Emily and Ham, and an elderly widow, Mrs. |
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In 1960, Dekyi Tseri, mother of the current Dalai Lama, stayed at the guest house of Sir Basil Gould's widow Cecily in Freshwater for six weeks. |
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Louis XII married his predecessor's widow, Anne of Brittany, in order to retain that province for France. |
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Carloman's widow Gerberga fled to Desiderius' court in Lombardy with her sons for protection. |
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At the time of the accident, the fate of LCT 427 went unreported and the late Violet Graham, James's widow, believed her husband, from Gateshead, had died in Normandy. |
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The female black widow spider is known to cannibalise the male. |
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It is claimed that the next best thing a golf widow can do if she cannot fill her lonely hours with croquet is to assume a devout interest in her husband's game. |
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Prasutagus's widow, Boudica, was flogged, and her daughters were raped. |
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Henry's uncle Jasper Tudor, the Earl of Pembroke and Edmund's younger brother, undertook to protect the young widow, who was 13 years old when she gave birth to Henry. |
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The royal court was worried when it learned that the Woodvilles, relatives of Edward IV's widow Elizabeth, were plotting to seize control of the council. |
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Henry VII renewed his efforts to seal a marital alliance between England and Spain, by offering his second son in marriage to Arthur's widow Catherine. |
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Catherine Parr, Henry's widow, soon married Thomas Seymour of Sudeley, Edward VI's uncle and the brother of the Lord Protector, Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset. |
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The oldest is the Croonian Lecture, created in 1701 at the request of the widow of William Croone, one of the founding members of the Royal Society. |
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There was once a widow, fair, young, free, rich, and withal very pleasant and jocund, that fell in love with a certain round and well-set servant of a college. |
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In 1770, his brother Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn, was exposed as an adulterer, and the following year Cumberland married a young widow, Anne Horton. |
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The Lerner and Loewe musical was still quite recent at the time and his widow Jackie quoted its lines in a 1963 Life interview following JFK's assassination. |
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If she is the same Godiva who appears in the history of Ely Abbey, the Liber Eliensis, written at the end of the 12th century, then she was a widow when Leofric married her. |
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She is said have been called Alftruda and was the widow of Earl Dolfin. |
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Fawkes was sent out to investigate, and returned with the news that the tenant's widow was clearing out a nearby undercroft, directly beneath the House of Lords. |
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He married Elsbeth Schmid, a widow a few years older than he was, who had an infant son, Franz, and was running her late husband's tanning business. |
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Holbein travelled with Philip Hoby to Brussels and sketched Christina in 1538 for the king, who was appraising the young widow as a prospective bride. |
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His father died in 1576, when Donne was four years old, leaving his son fatherless and his widow, Elizabeth Heywood, with the responsibility of raising their children alone. |
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Arthur Vaughan Williams died suddenly in February 1875, and his widow took the children to live in her family home, Leith Hill Place, Wotton, Surrey. |
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In 1994 a group of enthusiasts founded the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society, with the composer's widow as its president and Roy Douglas and Michael Kennedy as vice presidents. |
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Feldman represented Ratoff's widow and obtained the rights to film. |
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The Ancient Near Eastern collection also had its beginnings in 1825 with the purchase of Assyrian and Babylonian antiquities from the widow of Claudius James Rich. |
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After Chapman's death the racing team was continued by his widow, Hazel, and managed by Peter Warr, but a series of F1 designs proved unsuccessful. |
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David himself had lost his popularity and the respect of his nobles when he married the widow of a minor laird after the death of his English wife. |
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In 1839 Disraeli married Mary Anne Lewis, the widow of Wyndham Lewis. |
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A firebomb killed an elderly Protestant widow, Matilda Gould. |
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Other readings honoured Pinter's widow and his love of cricket. |
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His widow, Caitlin, died in 1994 and was buried alongside him. |
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The short story collection Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories was published in 1914 by Stoker's widow, Florence Stoker, who was also his literary executrix. |
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He never married but had a relationship with an older widow, Sarah Danby. |
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Unhappy with her home life, Wollstonecraft struck out on her own in 1778 and accepted a job as a lady's companion to Sarah Dawson, a widow living in Bath. |
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His father died two months after he was born, leaving his mother a widow. |
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His planned second marriage to Margaret, the widow of the knight Sir John Logie, resulted in a factional division that alienated nobles including Robert Steward. |
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His widow, Glenda, bequeathed his ashes to the city of Swansea. |
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Gyda was the widow of an earl, and was searching for a new husband. |
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Another source states that Harold's widow, Edith Swannesha, was called to identify the body, which she did by some private mark known only to her. |
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Also, a mural of Trajan stopping to provide justice for a poor widow is present in the first terrace of Purgatory as a lesson to those who are purged for being proud. |
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Biddell, a Lambeth widow and seamstress living in wretched conditions. |
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His widow, Anne's stepmother, the former queen, wrote to Anne to inform her that her father forgave her and to remind her of her promise to seek the restoration of his line. |
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His last moments were soothed by the devoted attentions of his now distracted widow, and by the presence of some of his distinguished and faithful friends. |
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After his death, his widow moved with young Nathaniel and two daughters to live with relatives named the Mannings in Salem, where they lived for 10 years. |
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Most of those calls are for either a false widow or wolf spiders. |
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The church made it difficult for a widow to remarry within the family group and thereby reconvey her property back to the tribe, so she had to own the property herself. |
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Cole's widow, Maria, saved kinescopes copies made by filming a TV monitor of the 1956-57 show that have been remastered for release on iTunes this week. |
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The plaque will be unveiled by members of the Royal British Legion and Kathleen CocKroft, Roy's widow and only surviving Korean War widow Known to be in Huddersfield. |
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Slater married for a second time in 1817, to a widow, Esther Parkinson. |
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Another widow, symbol of both the fragility of life and real poverty, gives more sacrificially than those whose gifts are, in comparison, quantitatively astronomical. |
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At the memorial, Lyn and Lee's tearful widow Rebecca comforted each other. |
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A few days earlier a recently bereaved widow was targeted by scammers. |
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Detectives had earlier managed to trace a distant relative of widow Mrs Rennie, whose body was found at her ground-floor maisonette on Saturday morning. |
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Among them was the widow of blacksmith Frederick Reynolds, who died of the aggressive cancer mesothelioma in February, allegedly after being exposed to blue asbestos. |
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The merry widow snaps after discovering a video of her late husband and Cindy in bed and clobbers her love rival with a Father Christmas statue, which is at least festive. |
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