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1. The wrinkled but ruthlessly rich spinster then called the parson
2. This “underground stream” of teaching challenges the traditional sex-free view that a celibate Jesus was born of a perpetual virgin, and that his closest friends were Lazarus, Martha and Mary, a celibate brother and his two spinster sisters
3. He was heavily tanned, had brown hair that curled below his ears, a square jaw, and a flashy smile that would melt the heart of the coldest spinster
4. The headmistress, a matronly spinster of indeterminate age, viewing my ashen countenance and blood oozing from trousers and shirt, had a bowl of warm water and detergent brought to her study where she and her thousand-year-old secretary pretended they weren’t excited when I stripped
5. Before their engagement both he and his bride, a homely and somewhat excitable spinster several years his senior, had agreed that at their time of life they did not want children
6. Margaret looked after the children that evening and did her best to entertain them, although she being a spinster was not used to such a task
7. She shared the house with her daughter, a spinster called Maura
8. His spinster homeroom teacher in the close confines of the cloakroom taught the first lessons in sex; much later he had found additional partners amoung the young nubiles of his classes
9. When not working in the church, Bach composed pieces on a spinster in his home
10. I don’t want her to be a spinster
11. Only the very young were spared and she was reclaimed from the wreckage by a spinster aunt who cared for her throughout the hostilities
12. I lived the rest of my life as a spinster
13. How could I publish them knowing what I did: that (at best) they were two pidgin poems of questionable authorship found (reportedly) on the back of a restaurant menu in Brisbane? Of course, they could very well have been the poems of an aborigine by the name of Eldred Van-Ooy, but just as equally they could have been written by some day-tripping hippy returned from a sojourn in the outback, or by some spinster inspired by the latest library slide-show travelogue on Ayres Rock
14. Was she really only a conventional spinster, shrinking back shocked at a touch of naked naturalness? Wasn't there much in what that short-haired child was so passionately saying about the rightness, the saneness, of reaction from horror? Wasn't it nature's own protection against too much death? After all, what was the good of doubling horror, of being so much horrified at the horrible that you stayed rooted there and couldn't move, and became, with your starting eyes and bristling hair, a horror yourself?
15. But these, of course, were merely the reflections of a tired-out spinster, and she still had enough spirit to laugh at them to herself
16. All one had to do was turn the corner and see streets swept clean and houses tenderly kept but Druids Way was like a spinster past her marrying days—avoided by the fashionable set
17. Postlethwaite was content with his answer although her spinster sister sitting beside her thought it a lie
18. Was she referring to herself and her spinster state? But she kept embroidering as if she hadn't a care in the world and it had merely been an off-hand comment
19. burning in her by the devoted spinster daughter
20. Now this lady was a thin, yellow spinster, with a sharp nose and inquisitive eyes, who saw everything and gossiped about all she saw
21. A literary spinster, with a pen for a spouse, a family of stories for children, and twenty years hence a morsel of fame, perhaps, when, like poor Johnson, I'm old and can't enjoy it, solitary, and can't share it, independent, and don't need it
22. her anything really shocking or scandalous, for her spinster state must be protected one for no one was foolish enough to take seriously anything she said
23. ” Before the ladies could recover from their shocked astonishment at her statement and at a spinster mentioning such a matter, Melanie was standing in the doorway
24. Myriel had arrived at D—— accompanied by an elderly spinster, Mademoiselle Baptistine, who was his sister, and ten years his junior
25. At the head of this room he had placed an elderly spinster, whom the priest had provided for him, and he had full confidence in this superintendent,—a truly respectable person, firm, equitable, upright, full of the charity which consists in giving, but not having in the same degree that charity which consists in understanding and in forgiving
26. The old woman who had given her lessons in what may be called the life of indigence, was a sainted spinster named Marguerite, who was pious with a true piety, poor and charitable towards the poor, and even towards the rich, knowing how to write just sufficiently to sign herself Marguerite, and believing in God, which is science
27. "Yes," answered the old spinster; "it is a disease
28. So saying, she pointed out to the spinster two napoleons
29. These households comprised of an old man and an old spinster are not rare, and always have the touching aspect of two weaknesses leaning on each other for support
30. There was also in this house, between this elderly spinster and this old man, a child, a little boy, who was always trembling and mute in the presence of M
31. The scarred veteran was afraid of that old spinster
32. "Let us see, father," said the old spinster
33. The old man and the old spinster had seated themselves with their backs to each other, and were thinking, each on his own account, the same things, in all probability
34. Near my blonde divinity sat a spinster lady not in her first youth, one of those who, as I chanced to observe later, always take refuge in the immediate neighbourhood of young and pretty women, selecting such as are not fond of cold-shouldering young men
35. "Yes, yes," said another spinster
36. "Here we have another rich prospective bride," said a third spinster