How To Use Spinster In A Sentence

"Emily, my dear," said the spinster aunt, with a patronising air, "don't talk so loud, love."
Sharing the tiny apartment were one of his grandmothers and a spinster aunt. Times, Sunday Times
Oroveso to the Druidical chorus, was a muscular spinster, fierce and forty, sporting steel spectacles, a frizette of the most scrupulous honesty, and a towering comb which formed what the landscape-gardeners call "an object" in the distance. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864
The other illuminati are equally insignificant from a social point of view: Mary Hare, an elderly spinster; Ruth Godbold, a poor and hard-working housewife; and Alf Dubbo, a part-Aboriginal painter. Patrick White - Existential Explorer
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.

Being a prim and proper spinster, Jane Austen did not use the family scandal in any of her novels.
Bening plays the spirited Sue Barlow, a spinster who has waited to meet the right man.
Nietzsche's alpha grandmother and two spinster aunts treated his meek, young mother like a hanger-on.
She was destined to remain a spinster, finding work as a domestic servant in - of all places - far-away Surrey.
Marital instability, a growing number of female breadwinners, an increase in spinsterdom and domestic conflicts engendered by the humiliations and subservience of most men's work experience, influenced women to be more socially assertive! SPEECH BY MR C MABENA: WOMEN CELEBRATING THE DECADE OF FREEDOM ON THE PATH TO TOTAL EMANCIPATION
Single men and those with families, wives, widows and spinsters could all be found in the movement.
Finally, the night was drawing to an end and I was dragged up the front along with all the other unmarried spinsters - against my protests - to try and catch the bouquet.
Although there are some neutral descriptive adjectives used with the word, such as 66 year old, disabled, or American, the majority of words collocating with spinster are negative.
The bachelor and the spinster both sometimes wonder that the benedick and the bride are still their rivals; for they know not that Hints for Lovers
Leslie Joseph portrays the small-minded, priggish, self-satisfied spinster to a T.
Today spinster suggests a rejected, dried-up "old maid," so much so that some single women are driven to adopt the ludicrous term bachelor girl to describe their status. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 1
Telly bosses gave the spinster a mobile but she was nervous about using it. The Sun
I'm all harkening back to the dark ages when women wore steel corsets and frilly aprons and high heels to vacumn in and everyone worried about spinsterdom. Weeme Diary Entry
The drama discussed major problems being faced by ignorant and uneducated women, like accepting misyar (no obligation) marriages out of fear of spinsterhood. Arabnews - frontpage
The age-old term "spinster," for example, continues to be used to deride unmarried women -- past their prime, and left spinning in the tower. Adam Foldes: 'Spinster'? What About 'Peddler'? A Gender Inequality in Terms of Commitment
Through the 1970s, the archetypal gardener was over 50 and had time and money to spare: a smug matron with impeccable calceolarias, an eccentric rosarian, a spinster growing herbs.
Last chance---a spinster, impecunious, and without connections. A RAKE'S VOW
Female sexuality is now in a better state than it was in Victorian England, when women were categorised into three types: virgin spinsters, wives who only tolerated sex, or whores.
`all spinsters are unmarried' is an analytic proposition
When a woman lives alone she is a sad old spinster, but a man who lives alone is described as a fun-loving bachelor. What Men Say, What Women Hear
Take a dowdy young spinster, before, add make-up, hair, a new wardrobe - and shazam - after she's a movie-star.
Sympathetic murmurs greet this delicate reference to her own spinsterhood, and the hunters then move in for the kill.
His cantankerous old mother and frustrated spinster sister are a constant drain on his increasingly shaky resources.
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.
Thus, a tale, for example, dealing either with "feminism" or "white slavery" as the handiest makeshift of spinsterdom -- or with the divorce habit and plutocratic iniquity in general, or with the probable benefits of converting clergymen to The Certain Hour
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.
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.
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.
The boy has won a hand of piquet, and the spinster has noticed that he has difficulty enjoying triumphs.
Grant had come to Oakdale late the previous autumn, and was living with his aunt, an odd, seclusive spinster, by the name of Priscilla Kent. Rival Pitchers of Oakdale
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.
As for me, spinsters have no need for virginal innocence.
Page 7 and Blaines, and gently rejecting one offer after another, until she married at thirty-three - an advanced stage of spinsterdom, then - honest Capt. Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life,
The sisters were to remain spinsters for the rest of their lives.
When it moved Project Runway from Bravo to Lifetime, Weinstein Company transformed the latter cable network from overearnest television for spinsters into something more chic and cheeky, or so some people said at the time. Gawker
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.
At one time this would have raised eyebrows - all those lonely spinsters and neglected bachelors sitting at home, pining for a mate.
Interrupted by an audible gasp of shock from a spinster-appearing female sunning herself hard by and angularly in the sand in a swimming suit monstrously unbeautiful, Lee Barton was aware of an involuntary and almost perceptible stiffening on the part of his wife. THE KANAKA SURF
The eternally young, fertile bride; the ancient, barren spinster; the siren; the sibyl—she was all these things, all at once, his beloved, the one for whom he denied himself the companionship of mere mortal company, against whom even the breathtaking Muriel Chanler paled. The Curse of the Wendigo
The buxom cook, mistress of the kitchen, the strange newcomer as under-housemaid with her perfect French accent, immaculate sewing, wild imagination and total illiteracy, the repressions of the god-fearing footman and the housemaid, both resigned to service and she doomed to spinsterdom The Guardian World News
Or it may contain a plumber on his way to save the carpet of an elderly spinster. The Sun
I predict she will end up a lonely, bitter spinster with only her Press cuttings for company. The Sun
A spirited spinster's lively account of a sojourn in 19th century Tenby takes a fresh look at life in the town and the pastimes of its many Victorian visitors.
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.
Physically, she brilliantly embodied the shrewd, sharp-eyed, owlish spinster, while also conveying her intuitive acumen and razor-sharp mind.
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?
When a spinster on a farm happens to see him remove his swanskin and change back to a man, the lives of these three individuals becomes inextricably linked ...and even more so, when the wizard comes looking for his wife. August 27th, 2009
The socialist idealist turns into a prissy schoolteacher heading for embittered spinsterdom; the dreamer and future novelist becomes a hack journalist; the golden boy back from World War I ends up a drunk, and so on. Epic Theatre Travels Into Past, Present and Future
An evil financial adviser with a ‘diabolical’ mind wormed his way into the affections of a wealthy elderly spinster to solve his own financial crisis, it is claimed.
Ann Street started life as an out-of-the-way address for well-to-do widows and spinsters.
Last chance---a spinster, impecunious, and without connections. A RAKE'S VOW
I want you to realize that are better choices than being a lonely spinster.
Instead of sowing five pecks to the acre, sow five or more bushels, and you will raise flax as soft as silk; from such flax fibres can be hatcheled as fine as spinster's webs.
For example, until recently hardline bachelors and spinsters were seen as odd and eccentric - while today they have become mainstream, even positive figures.
At the same time, an incipient fight broke out on the other side of the arc of tables between the head of the language department at Mallorysport Academy and a spinsterish amateur phoneticist. Little Fuzzy
At the same time, an incipient fight broke out on the other side of the arc of tables between the head of the lan-guage department at Mallorysport Academy and a spinsterish ama'teur phoneticist. The Fuzzy Papers
What is to be regretted, however, is the demise of all those conscientious spinsters and widows who used to type authors' manuscripts.
Spinster and bluestocking, Niblock is also something of an outsider, an emancipated transgressor in polite Edwardian society, recalling the unsung role of the female intellectual, adventurer and agent in the birth of the modernist period; a mischievous subversion of the Victorian upper class male. Archive 2008-12-01
Women spun for their own households, and the term spinster was introduced. Comic History of England
Spinsters and widows enjoyed the legal status of femme sole in which they had control of their own affairs.
You know, I want to embrace the word godmother so it doesn't have that connotation and sort of - oh, it means you're an old spinster. Joan Jett Rumbles Back with 'Sinner'
The proximity to Spinner Lane may indicate that some of the cottages could have housed spinsters.
In America law and custom alike is based upon the dream of spinster.
She would never in a million years admit it to her mother, but she was also worried that she was slowly becoming one of those addlebrained old spinster cat ladies. Loving the Highlander
The headline's use of the term spinster is clearly a pejorative term that connotes an attempt to avoid degradation and disapproval by society by maintaining single-status beyond the time that society believes is appropriate. GetReligion
Her roles moved from ingenue to slut, and from spinster to "the first lady of fright."
Matilda, who early on threatens to be a real pistol of a character, becomes the stereotypical, eccentric spinster auntie who teaches her charges useful life lessons in between subjecting them to her annoying habits and quirky behavior.
Unmarried women over twenty were considered spinsters, and bachelors in their late twenties were subjected to public censure and mockery.
Babette, master chef and communard, has been taken in by two pious Scandinavian spinsters after being forced to leave France because of her radical political activity. Moral Fiction
Tapitha Brample, spinster; he mought as well have called her inkle-weaver, for she never spun and hank of yarn in her life — The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
On those occasions when the pressing duties of spinster auntdom prevent me from poring over any given discussion in detail, it is my policy to more or less rely on the commentariat to keep a civil tongue in its head, or at the very least refrain from total jerkbag asswipery. Responding To The Feminist Anti-Transsexual Arguments
A Church of England spokesman said: ‘The words bachelor or spinster have never been part of the wording of banns, but many clergy customarily use them and will no doubt continue to.’
The cleaned and carded wool would then be spun by spinsters.
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.
The setting is the 18th-century garden of a severe philosopher named Hermocrates (Schmidt) and his spinster sister Hesione (Hedman). Olney Theatre's 'Triumph of Love' has great comedy, performances and music
Texas's married women quickly relinquished power to their husbands after the Civil War, and spinsters and widows in the Old Southeast maintained close economic and personal ties to kin.
The wheels go round without a sound -- The maidens hold high revel; In sinful mood, insanely gay, True spinsters spin adown the way From duty to the devil! Pimping Your Ride: Making Money With Your Bike
The term spinster — used today to refer to a woman who remains unmarried — originated with women who spent their adult years at the spinning wheel rather than raising a family. Managing Strategic Relationships
It is hardly surprising that King was a spinster considering that she spoke contemptuously of the ‘hollow sham called matrimony’ in a letter to a recently married sister.
Jumble sales, vicars, spinsters, and other excellent women who prepare indexes and collect jumble for distressed gentlewomen. My new secret boyfriend
A lady about to be presented at Court must appear, if a spinster with two, and if married with three, feathers disposed on her head so that they are visible from the front, and with two long lappets of tulle or lace two yards in length flowing from the back of the hair. Archive 2009-02-01
Â However, in this tale, what we know as a literary device dreamed up by a man who lived with his spinster aunts is pushed on the readers as the real deal. Review: The Strange Adventures of H.P. Lovecraft | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
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?
The world at the inn is one dominated by women - the nymphet, the vamp, the spinster and a handful of old crones.
Ms. Wineapple, to her credit, acknowledges but doesn't massage the mysterioso stereotype of Dickinson as the Moth of Amherst, a fey spinster dressed in white, flitting about the family manse like a ghost. Emily's Ambassador
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Emily Dickinson in this constellation is forever the lovelorn spinster, pining away in her father's mansion on Main Street in Amherst, Mass. Lance Mannion:
He was further described as ungentlemanly by a brace of spinsters who had been within earshot on the veranda the morning he had abused the Asquith roads, but their evidence was not looked upon as damning. The Celebrity, Complete
A spinster is more than a female bachelor: she is beyond the expected marrying age and therefore seen as rejected and undesirable.
For me, no venerable spinster hoarded in the Trongate, permitting herself few luxuries during a long protracted life, save a lass and a lanthorn, a parrot, and the invariable baudrons of antiquity. Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners)
Mme D. likes to pull strings, and uses her pallid lady's companion, the spinster Capulat, as her factotum.
Crotchety spinsters, ladies 'companions, put a cheerful face upon it, endure the humors of your so-called benefactress, carry her lapdogs for her; you have an English poodle for your rival, and you must seek to understand the moods of your patroness, and amuse her, and -- keep silence about yourselves. The Magic Skin
Why do we, in jaded, post-industrial America, buy it — the handsome ne'er-do-well with the plain, hardworking spinster? A Quiet Genius
He left his Montana ranch to his spinster sister.
Sharing the tiny apartment were one of his grandmothers and a spinster aunt. Times, Sunday Times
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.
In America law and custom alike is based upon the dream of spinster.
For most women, marriage used to bring a higher status than spinsterhood.
She was a spinsterly piano tutor for 11 years. Globe and Mail
The experience of these nineteenth-century spinsters cannot be divorced from their language because it structured their experience, indeed, it made their experience possible.
Betty, the eldest and headed for spinsterhood, works as a nurse for Mike, a middle-aged medico married to the middle sister, Ann, who is pregnant and unhappy.
Bachelors and spinsters continued to be common and the age of marriage remained high.
The Times already has one self-absorbed, dimwitted Irish spinster on its oped pages. Matthew Yglesias » Against Craziness
And everyone crowed about difference and spinsterdom and challenges and underdoggism and all that stuff that gives us tinny, buttery hope. Gawker
Among them are widows and widowers, heartfree spinsters and pining bachelors. The Bird Study Book
Jane is the bright spot in her lonely spinster's life, and a letter from Jane is what she lives and waits for.
Bozo The Neoclown says: in five years angry trannie annie coulter will be an old, dried up, barren spinster who gives the neighborhood children shitty homemade popcorn balls at halloween and feeds all the stray cats from a shopping crats she pushes through the streets Think Progress » Coulter Cancels Speech In Canada After 2,000 Students Show Up To Protest Her Appearance
Both widows and spinsters were prominent in property ownership and in financing businesses as sleeping partners.
I definitely don't like seamster - it's no more inclusive than seamstress, since as far as I have always understood the -ster is derived from sister (think spinster), and it always makes me think of some kind of gang with strange rules and leather jackets (I realize this doesn't go with the first reason but it's what pops into my head). Quick Fabric Update - A Dress A Day
Does Miss Marple have to be an elderly spinster? Times, Sunday Times
She was tall for a woman and still rather young to live under the weight of the title spinster. The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre
Indeed, these adolescent, spinster, perhaps sapphic women wrote journals, lyrics, fantastic tales, and stories mediated by the spirits who guided their pens.
It's been awhile since I've linked to my favourite Liberal spinster Cherniak, so today here's a classic piece where he "rebuts" some of the "lies" read: opinions surrounding the Liberal leadership race. Daily Hackery
Spinsters were consoled by the proverb Better lang lowse daa ill teddered, and a grieving jilted girl was advised by the motto, Better ee hert braks dan aa da wirld winders, warning her not to show her feelings too strongly. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 3
She was a tall, bespectacled spinster, who was very capable and well understood child psychology.
She was a tall, bespectacled spinster, who was very capable and well understood child psychology.
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.
Crotchety spinsters, ladies’ companions, put a cheerful face upon it, endure the humors of your so-called benefactress, carry her lapdogs for her; you have an English poodle for your rival, and you must seek to understand the moods of your patroness, and amuse her, and — keep silence about yourselves. The Magic Skin
But a spinster living alone with an adult man would surely give rise to bawdy speculation among the locals.

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