Widowhood

Her life before widowhood is her spiritual insurance policy. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Furthermore, such property that women did hold came under the control of their husbands at marriage under the principle of marital unity, although they could recover in widowhood any freehold property that had been theirs before marriage and had not been disposed of (with their consent) by their husbands. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The rent provided a source of income for the couple and a means of maintaining the wife in widowhood, with the advantage of keeping the main estate intact for the heir. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The Lord grant you that ye may find rest -- enjoy a life of tranquillity, undisturbed by the cares, incumbrances, and vexatious troubles to which a state of widowhood is peculiarly exposed. ❋ Unknown (1871)

Women were far less frequently testators than men, and generally only in widowhood. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Get away from Pope, from all the wives whose husbands still came home, from all the friends suddenly made awkward and distant by the widow in their midst, as if her widowhood might be a catching disease. ❋ Lisle, Holly (2002)

First, for herself, the greater her husband's seniority, the greater are her chances of widowhood, which is in any case the destiny of an enormous preponderance of married women. ❋ Unknown (1909)

She had dismissed her poor Anderling peremptorily enough; yet she would often after this look in the face of the child of her so - called widowhood, to discover what and how many traits of his father were to be seen in his lineaments. ❋ Thomas Hardy (1884)

It seems the so-called widowhood effect could be caused by the combined effects of stress and age-related changes in the immune system. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Before the eye of his fancy the woman always came just as she was when he had first had sight of her, with the gesture which he had surprised as he walked past unseen on the edge of the cliff; that great gesture of passionate joy in her new liberty which had told him more plainly than speech that her widowhood was a release from torment, and had confirmed with terrible force the suspicion, active in his mind before, that it was her passport to happiness with a man whom she loved. ❋ Unknown (1915)

Although we seem many generations away from the last era that practiced any kind of widowhood etiquette, we can still find principles to follow in the case of widowhood. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I should be false to others and to myself if I were to say that his extreme grief excited my compassion; but I should equally belie the truth if I gave it to be understood that his "widowhood" gave me pleasure, and that I congratulated myself on his sorrow and bitterness. ❋ Various (N/A)

She and this Mrs. Blair, a sparse, umbrella of a woman with a very bitter kind of widowhood, had formed the noonday habit of taking a dairy lunch of milk and cereal at a near-by White Kitchen and of departing evenings for there, too, since it spelled strong, hot, simple foods and a very superior kind of cleanliness. ❋ Fannie Hurst (1928)

Was it possible that the real Mrs. Manston, who was known to be a Philadelphian by birth, had returned by the train to London, as the porter had said, and then left the country under an assumed name, to escape that worst kind of widowhood -- the misery of being wedded to a fickle, faithless, and truant husband? ❋ Thomas Hardy (1884)

She hadn’t aged gracefully, and after so many years of happiness as the wife of Gaius Julius Caesar, her widowhood was a great burden to her. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1990)