How To Use Widow In A Sentence

It also has superb golf courses, so if you're a bit of a golf widow, leave him to tussle in the bunker while you slink off to the spa - it's connected to the hotel by a subterranean tunnel.
For the five years before her death his widow had donated an annual gift of £3,000 towards Burley - unknown to many in the village.
Her name means happiness, but she is a widow with five children who makes ends meet by washing clothes for the neighbourhood and preparing injera, the unleavened bread prepared today as it was 1000 years ago.
One widow, she said, was carrying around $900,000 in uncashed cheques; another confessed to spending $15,000 on designer clothes.
The ci-devant banker, then a widower with an only daughter, Esther, had journeyed to England.

This induced those airs, and a love to those diversions, which make a young widow, of so lively a turn, the unfittest tutoress in the world, even to her own daughter. Clarissa Harlowe
Just before the funeral, the undertaker came up to the elderly widow and asked: ‘How old was your husband?’
But in essence, the short-time Fourier transformation is a method of ingle resolution because it uses an unchanged short-time widow function.
You prayed to the devil in Serpentine avenue that the fubsy widow in front might lift her clothes still more from the wet street.
Then there was the case of George Godman, whose widowed mother went to the authorities when his master, a tailor by the name of Money, beat him with a horsewhip and knocked him down.
She gets a widow's pension.
The government offers meager help: a $130 annual payment to each widow, and a ration card for rice and oil.
It was a benevolent organization that gave aid to fellow miners, their widows and children, as the many newspaper articles of the period record.
[Page 67] * This accomplished comment to human nature was the widow of the late Willoughby lord Middleton of Woolaton in Nottinghamshire, and wife of Edward Miller Mundy, Esq. of Shipley in the county of Derby, by whom her ladyship had one daughter now living. Poems, by Mrs. M. Robinson
Nothing can prepare you for the shock and grief of widowhood.
Dressed in severe black taffeta and white veil, Widow Gumple flounced by them. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
Upon the death of a husband, a widow chooses a husband from among the dead man's brothers.
There once was/lived a poor widow who had a beautiful daughter.
To the west of the town, on the B939, is Rufflets hotel www.rufflets.co.uk , a turreted mansion house built in 1924 for Anne Brydon Gilroy, the widow of a wealthy jute baron. Drives That Leave the City Behind
The countess of Lincoln, twice widowed, once by Thomas, earl of Lancaster, and once by Ebulo Lestraunge, and therefore with two dowers, as well as being the Lacy heiress in her own right, was a very worthwhile prospect for anyone on the rise.
In the 1340s the church's presbytery, off which radiate six chapels, was rebuilt by the widow of Hugh le Despenser the Younger, who was executed for treason in 1326.
Underwood - a superannuated widower - has two daughters.
Compare Lu 10: 39, Mary; Lu 2: 37, "Anna ... a widow, who departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day" (1Ti 5: 5). distraction -- the same Greek as "cumbered" (Lu 10: 40, Martha). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
The next to be loved is the stranger, the orphan, the widow and the indigent, that is to say those citizens that are without a “defender”. Archive 2008-10-26
Up for grabs is a zipper bag full of bits and pieces which I don't want - a few orphans &/or widows, HST corners, and so on. Promised giveaway
I am reminded of the movie, Rachel and the Stranger, where the widower laments that his wife fought so hard to make their isolated cabin a home and bring beauty to it by insisting on planting flowers in the front yard, bringing her spinet to the West and playing it every evening, buying a metronome for her playing, educating their son in the home and insisting that he show good manners. Archive 2007-09-01
One poor widow came and threw in two mites, which make a quadrans. Babes with a Beatitude
A widow of several years, she wears a green, yellow and orange headscarf, from which black and grey curls poke out.
In a Cameroon painting, the widow giving the mite is a young woman with a baby in her arms. KansasCity.com: Front Page
Only rarely are chuck-will's-widows found during the daytime; most records are for night-singing birds.
Widow Precious had plenty of sharp sense to tell her that her children were by no means “pretty dears” to anybody but herself, and to herself only when in a very soft state of mind; at other times they were but three gew-mouthed lasses, and two looby loons with teeth enough for crunching up the dripping-pan. Mary Anerley
But the vow of a widow or of a woman divorced, no man had power to disallow of, for her estate was free from controlment" (Klein 50). My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem
Before getting the certificate in my name, it was just socially understood that the land belonged to my husband," says Tashegu Woretaw, 48, a widow with a hectare of land near Mamo's farm.
He was a seventh child and his mother, left a widow in early life and compelled to earn her livelihood, saw scant chance of educating him when the kindly assistance of a Canon of the Cathedral and President of the Collége de Noyon relieved her difficulties. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The narrative does not slacken with the news of Daniel's death and the widow's hopeless grief.
Their weird cries are reflected in the common names for many of the species, e.g., whippoorwill, chuck-will's-widow, poorwill, poor-me-one, potoo, and pauraque. Languagehat.com: ORNITHONOMY.
It's obviously better to be a golf divorcee than a golf widow. The Sun
Splendid!" said the Widow -- and to tell the truth, she was not far out of the way, and with Helen Darley as a foil anybody would know she must be foudroyant and pyramidal, -- if these French adjectives may be naturalized for this one particular exigency. Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
Mrs Kernan, a widow and his official carer, said she had barricaded him in his bedroom before summoning relatives.
The inter-war years saw the growth of contributory pensions for workers, some occupational pensions - mainly for men - and widows' pensions.
In a tiny backyard, they find two dozen chickens, five children and one Afghan war widow.
Nothing in this act shall be construed so as to prevent any of said heirs or distributees now of age, or who may become so, or the widow of either of said decedents from proceeding to have his or her share of said estates allowed to him or her, precisely as if this act had not been passed. Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Virginia, Passed at Session of 1863-4, in the Eighty-Eighth Year of the Commonwealth.
Sure, trust-loving lawyers are now touting the nontax virtues of trusts--protecting assets from creditors, from those who prey on the elderly and from a new spouse if a widow remarries. Married, With Assets
Learn to do good ; Seek justice, Reprove the ruthless , Defend the orphan, Plead for the widow.
The filmmakers bring us to the marketplace of Charikar, the town selected for the hospital, to meet the civilians: war widows reduced to beggary, young children employed as metalworkers.
Now widowed in her early 50s, she faces the future with some anxiety, despite the growing success of her work.
He added his approval to the proposed monetary awards for Leonhard Euler and the widow of Tobias Mayer.
The banking arm of Scottish Widows will announce a huge 72% rise in pre-tax profits tomorrow and claim it is giving high street rivals a run for their money despite thinning margins and cut-throat competition.
Widowed, and with a little child, he felt violent pangs of transient remorse, and hymned his dead wife in vintage Nineties poet's minor melody.
His youngish stepmother, Joyce, volunteers to baby-sit gratis in view of his straitened circumstances and her recent widowing and resultant loneliness.
What politician is going to call what the public perceives to be a well-meaning group of tragedy-stricken widows a gang of frauds and liars?
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.
The town's most eligible young widow - well, older than he is by about ten years, but still, far from being the battleaxe he'd imagined her to be - is definitely coming on to him.
My dear child, Richard Talbot would never have left his widow alone.
Why is it acceptable for us to live with fear, murder, destruction, displacement, the orphaning of children and widowing of women, but peace, security and happiness should be for you? CNN Transcript Nov 13, 2002
Perhaps the best amalgamation of Kahane's effectively intricate arrangements and the newly acquired electric guitar sheen occurs on "Last Dance," a melancholic portrait of a new widow, or perhaps an abandoned lover "She takes her bundle of pills, she poaches her egg and eats it/And feels his slight impression like crushed pillows hold the shape of a body after nights of sleep and shadows". Daniel J. Kushner: After Aesthetics: Gabriel Kahane's Where Are The Arms
Mourners are remembering Lady Bird Johnson, the widow of former President Lyndon Baines Johnson will lie in repose until Saturday.
There is the man who yearned for eternal life but was terribly attached to his own possessions, and the poor widow who put her last penny in the treasury.
In the early stage of their friendship, Anna's romance with the widow Lehntman involves their common ‘goodness’: their embodiment of Christian caritas and selfless devotion to others.
Her father was Uther the pendragon, and her mother Ygerna, widow of Gorloïs. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
This arrangement also protected the husband; should he die, his merry widow could never marry her amico. If He Has A Mistress, Why Can't She Have...A Mister?
The saimiri, or titi of the Orinoco, the atele, the sajou, and other quadrumanous animals long known in Europe, form a striking contrast, both in their gait and habits, with the macavahu, called by the missionaries viudita, or widow in mourning. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
Dave Gilmore is currently appearing as Widow Twanky in the Arts Theatre's production of "Puss in Boots".
I recently made a Pension Credit application for an 83-year-old widow and after numerous telephone calls and a personal interview, she was awarded the princely sum of £2.05.
His widow yesterday told of her astonishment at discovering her husband's debts after his death.
Widows in equatorial Africa actually wear sackcloth and ashes when attending a funeral.
When I first answered the ad in the paper and said I was a widow, that was different.
For instance, a widow from Pontiac calls about her husband, a veteran who's just died.
They sojourn to Claire's new estate and learn that Claire is now a widow.
The overwhelming causes of poverty in rural areas were low pay and to a lesser extent old age and widowhood.
No longer do you become a footie widow at the weekends. The Sun
Now they heard the distant baying of house-dogs, now the doleful call of the chuck-will's-widow, and once Mary's blood turned, for an instant, almost to ice at the unearthly shriek of the hoot owl just above her head. Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform
He left her a childless widow at the age of eighteen.
Another gem from this Steyn book: In a more culturally confident age, the British in India were faced with the practice of "suttee" - the tradition of burning widows on the funeral pyres of their husbands. Random feeds from Syndic8.com
In 1824, claims about a Washington widow's miracle cure were celebrated by some, called humbug by others—and sparked a debate among Catholics and Protestants. A Mixed Blessing
This range of ages and types exemplifies the three stages of many women's lives: maidenhood, marriage, and widowhood.
The death at the age of 101 of the former Queen consort after 50 years of widowhood since the death of King George Vl, however, was not an appropriate peg for such discussion.
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.
Well, surely that sensible widow was in on whatever distaff discussions went on overhead. THE CURSE OF CHALION
On the present occasion he was convicted of attempting to rape and then murdering an 81-year-old widow.
Our law allows an appeal to be brought against a murderer by the widow, or next heir, of the person murdered, yea, though the murderer have been acquitted upon an indictment; and, if the murderer be found guilty upon that appeal, execution shall be awarded at the suit of the appellant, who may properly be called the avenger of blood. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy)
Single men and those with families, wives, widows and spinsters could all be found in the movement.
Phoebe Martin was a thirty-three-year-old widow, and Clarine Eldridge, just fourteen, was scarcely older than the children she had been hired to watch. Excerpt: Passing Strange by Martha Sandweiss
A widow, she is the sole provider for her family.
Another obvious gender difference was in the marital status of the testators: while male testators were single, married, and widowed, most women's testamentary documents, at least those that have survived, were written by widows. 50 Most of these were disposing of relatively small estates, often in exchange for support in their old age, and they tended to be less preoccupied with maintaining properties in the patriline, although this may simply have been a reflection of the lesser significance of the properties they were transferring. Gutenber-e Help Page
[21: 2] And he saw also a certain poor widow cast in there two lepta [4 mills]. The New Testament Translated From the Original Greek, With Chronological Arrangement of the Sacred Books, and Improved Divisions of Chapters and Verses.
I do not come here to ask your favors, such as cupidity would covet, or even such as would relieve indigence -- Marat's widow needs no more than a tomb. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators
The banking arm of Scottish Widows will announce a huge 72% rise in pre-tax profits tomorrow and claim it is giving high street rivals a run for their money despite thinning margins and cut-throat competition.
Hepplewhite had died intestate at Redcross Street by 27 June 1786, when administration was granted to his widow, Alice.
“It refers to the dissipation of your fortune to the advantage of a certain Madame Jeanrenaud, the widow of a bargemaster — or rather, to that of her son, Colonel Jeanrenaud, for whom you are said to have procured an appointment, to have exhausted your influence with the King, and at last to have extended such protection as secures him a good marriage. The Commission in Lunacy
Escaping post-war London, the grieving widow directed her energies into creating her own decorative version of a Scottish pleasance, planting fruit and vegetables as well as flowers among its topiary.
This removed land in intestate estates from the repercussions of primogeniture and stipulated a division along the same lines as chattels: one-third to the widow for her lifetime, ultimately to devolve to the children of the marriage; two-thirds equally divided among the children. Gutenber-e Help Page
Islam, however, under the Shari'a law, provides a portion of the estate for widows.
It is the perfect place for golf widows too. The Sun
A widow, she is the sole provider for her family.
Instead, the aging widow Bernarda Alba personifies self-hatred and the ability of women to enforce the rules of men upon themselves.
Being abroad "expanded his mind," says Loida Lewis, Mr. Lewis's widow and the chairwoman of the Reginald F. Boosting Diversity in U.S. Law Schools
The persistent widow kept returning to plead her case. Christianity Today
There is plenty of unfounded snobbery as well (Where the dead sergeant's wife becomes the general's widow) and wannabee poets, artists and the suchlike finding happiness in their reinventions. Page 2
Deep mourning, for example, for a widow might be two years, followed by a period of half-mourning. Archive 2008-06-01
By "here," Valentina told us she meant "Khoseni," a "country" (tiko) that exists on neither colonial - nor postcolonial-era administrative maps but whose remembered territorythe area ruled by Khosa chiefs in precolonial timesencompasses all of the critical sites of Valentina's life story: her birthplace and childhood homes (Xisangwana, Nyongane, Makuvulane); where she married (Timanguene); and the place she "was shown" when as a widow with two young daughters she moved to Facazisse, a place she choseand where she feels doubly securebecause of her lifelong association with (and marriage into) the Swiss Mission church. Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
If at the time of her death, a widow leaves no eligible minor child, the payment of her share of the pension will cease.
A black widow spider has a distinctive red hourglass marking on its stomach.
Du'in 'the month thet he's showed signs o' keepin 'comp'ny with me - which he has acchilly asked me to marry him - he' ain't said the first word sech ez you'd expect of a co'tin 'widower, exceptin' one. In Simpkinsville : character tales,
Cause of death would have been of purely academic interest to the deceased man's widow.
The tale regards the ruler as a father to the orphan, husband to the widow, brother to she who is divorced, a garment to the motherless, a just ruler who comes to the voice of those who call him.
Mrs. Bates, the widow of a former vicar of Highbury, was a very old lady, almost past every thing but tea and quadrille.
Golf widows for a year, prize turkeys for a weekend. Times, Sunday Times
Here, Mount played a raging battleaxe, Martha, who, like her sister Mildred, is a widow.
She could barely survive on the pittance she received as a widow's pension.
On his release, the widowed trickster evidently won himself a rich wife among the élite Jewish merchant class in Frankfort.
At 25, he became a commercial agent for a rich widow, whom he soon married.
It was a strange sensation to have them on - more intimate than sleeping with his widow.
When you're a widow no one buys you perfume any more. Times, Sunday Times
His reformist thinking was evident when he arranged for the remarriage of his young widowed daughter.
Also patron of adopted children, the death of children, parenthood, and widows.
Alas! the adieu was a final one, for I never saw him afterwards; and within three short weeks of my marriage, I was a widow again! The Woman in Battle: A Narrative of the Exploits, Adventures, and Travels of Madame Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Otherwise Known as Lieutenant Harry T. Buford, Confederate States Army. In Which Is Given Full Descriptions of the Numerous Battles in which She P
For golf widows, there will be a five-star Four Seasons hotel and spa that will act as an informal private club for residents.
Waal," commenced the widow, settling herself in her chair, and assuming the air of one who has a story to narrate. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859
She renounced the role of tragic widow with an austerity that irritated her would-be saviours.
Following his death, his widow Ruth, who was just 27, quit Wiltshire and returned home to America.
His widow recalled finding his body and not crying for the cameras, insisting that the business would continue. Times, Sunday Times
When you retire, you will get the basic pension instead of the widow's pension you were getting.
If the murdered leaves a widow with children, this widow may claim the criminal as her own, and he becomes her husband nominally, that is to say, he must hunt and provide for the subsistence of the family. Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet
His widow has asked us to make clear he was contesting the charges. The Sun
Mr Murphy said that all widows and widowers who were overtaxed should be repaid this money with interest to compensate them for the loss of purchasing power.
Thirteen-year-old Alan Dale, only son of a poor widow, scrapes a meagre living as a thief and cutpurse in and around the busy town of Nottingham. Archive 2009-12-01
It is generally agreed that Joseph died at some point in Jesus' life, but it is speculation to say that Mary's widowhood was on his mind in his encounter with the grieving widow.
Would you say now, Widow Broderick, am I getting anyway flushy in the face? New Irish Comedies
I've seen widows forced to marry unwanted suitors who, aided and abetted by the law, usurped their deceased husband's assets, as well as their own lives and bodies.
Let us look at Ruth, she is a Moabitess from a poor and humble origins. She is a widow returning from the Gentiles.
Family doctor and friend, Good Old George has forsworn his practice due to retirement, is a widower and now lives in bucolic bliss in the country.
The war widowed many women in the former Yugoslavia
Cecil Maiden, third Earl of Heathermere, was a widower with three sons, by name Reginald, Bertie, and Osmund. The Cryptogram A Story of Northwest Canada
Besides the trees in her orchard, poor widow Brown had in her small garden one apple-tree particularly fine; it was a redstreak, so tempting and so lovely that Giles 'family had watched it with longing eyes, till at last they resolved on a plan for carrying off all this fine fruit in their bags. Stories for the Young Or, Cheap Repository Tracts: Entertaining, Moral, and Religious. Vol. VI.
And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda, Solomon's servant, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow woman, even he lifted up his hand against the king.
Andromache is the widow of the renowned Trojan hero Hector, fallen in battle.
By many a discarded camp you would see a discarded pa-ta, a widow's kopi mourning cap, lying there in pieces.
Vast numbers of rockfish at various life stages, especially widows, yellowtails, and blues, which tend to school in midwater, and some deeper-water species such as yelloweyes, canaries, vermilions, and bocaccios, which are not typically seen near shore.
I just put my mind ghost town guest a widow.
Old people with a pension fund, widows, and the wardens of orphans must invest their money into the financial markets, lest its purchasing power evaporate under their noses.
The proportion of married women falls to just over two in ten, and the proportion widowed rises to nearly two-thirds.
On the other hand, a widow, even if she be an albiness, can be represented only by the queen of spades. The Gaming Table : Its Votaries and Victims : Vol. 2
A widow since 1978, she has one daughter and two granddaughters and a wide range of interests to keep her busy.
Orly claimed Majerik became her client after she helped the widow prevail in a lawsuit against another matchmaker.
Martha was a very rich young widow.
Joan herself was a widow, and as an ex-nurse she befriended Stanley and began to care for him.
The purpose of dower was to prevent the widow's becoming a public charge.
Mrs Martin was a widow and a washerwoman, and had a ne'er-do-well brother, a fisherman, who frequently "sponged" upon her. The Lively Poll A Tale of the North Sea
The widowed mum of four was a church warden and a keen charity fundraiser. The Sun
Lying about widows of 9/11 and everything else that toilet she calls a mouth is the real problem. Think Progress » ThinkFast AM: July 7, 2006
It showed us the plight of Pam, a 50-something still-attractive widow who, having raised at least one daughter, is now devoting her middle years to the care of her ageing mother, Olive.
Though we were planning our response to the death of friends and the widowing of their wives, our conversation was clinical and detached. Riding Rockets
If no player picks up the widow, depending on the variant played deal passes on, t here is a redeal with double stakes played by three or more players with a pack of 32 or 24 cards. Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
Her widowhood condemns her to a lonely old age.
And if the woman is widowed, she finds herself in your position. Get the Best out of the Rest of Your Life
Fittingly, the winning team trophy was handed over to Lance Corporal Manning's widow, Elaine.
Mrs B is an 86-year-old widow, living alone in a two-apartment flat.
Your assistance would be appreciated in reaching Zimbabwe / Rhodesian pensioners and annuitants, widows and others interested.
But, unluckily for Beorminster, he was dead and his relict was a mourning widow, who constantly referred to her victim as a perfect husband. The Bishop's Secret
New birds will come thick and fast - woodpeckers, kingfishers, barbets, tinkerbirds, widows, cisticolas, apalis and prinias, crombecs, various sparrows and canaries.
On December 3, 1998, widows, dying workers and cancer survivors from "Chemical Valley" in Sarnia, Ontario, attended the Visitors Gallery in the Ontario Legislature. Archive 2009-10-01
Olivia, for no reason she could think of, sat in the nearest chair and wrote the word widowed on the napkin, under the name Rodriguez. Starting from Scratch
He remarried, became a widower, and remarried again. Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet
Edward's parents sent their condolences, attended the ceremony at chapel and graveside, and Mrs Thomas visited the widow.
Of course you are not wrong, but a proud and devoted wife and widow. Times, Sunday Times
A grief-stricken widow took her own life six months after the death of her husband - and just days after she had been sent home from her job of 20 years.
On reaching the churchyard and turning the corner towards the spot as usual, she was surprised to perceive another woman, also apparently a respectable widow, and with a tiny boy by her side, bending over Clark's turf, and spudding up with the point of her umbrella some ivy-roots that A Changed Man; and other tales
The Japanese princess was an aunt of Emperor Akihito and the widow of Prince Takamatsu, a younger brother of the late Emperor Hirohito.
But this was also why the “trust,” formerly a device for protecting widows and orphans, became a term of derogation and hatred. The Prize
The widow gossiped about her neighbors.
He left a widow and two children.
The widow weltered in tears.
Minus One is a social support group for separated, widowed or divorced people.
A distraught widow who was awarded £2,000 compensation by a utility company faced further anguish when the firm's bank refused to honour the cheque.
a couple of steamer chairs that were not in use, and they sat down near together, and dad took hold of her hand to see if she was nervous, and he told me I could go any play mumbletypeg in the cabin, and I went in the cabin and looked out of the window at dad and the widow. Peck's Bad Boy Abroad Being a Humorous Description of the Bad Boy and His Dad in Their Journeys Through Foreign Lands - 1904
In 2006, widowed, Mr. Jandali remarried and now lives on a cul-de-sac in a gated Reno suburban community.
Married to a widower with three children, her position is not much better than it was 16 years ago.
Devoid of attractions or of amiable manners, Madame Guillaume commonly decorated her head — that of a woman near on sixty — with a cap of a particular and unvarying shape, with long lappets, like that of a widow. At the Sign of the Cat and Racket
The black widow spider has red-orange markings on its body.
In both cases they had been widowed relatively young, but in neither case was their gender a disqualification in their assumption of authority.
In the movie, Reynolds plays a widow sublimely adjusted to retired life in San Francisco.
Opera Football widow or avid fan? Times, Sunday Times
Certainly, he could have applied his charms to some rich widow or dim-witted heiress long ago.
His brother suggested he marry a wealthy widow and settle down to write books. Christianity Today
I married my late husband when he was a widower after he retired and I accept that as a result I am not entitled to any pension from him.
His widow has taken over the running of his empire, including six London theatres.
A female guest was also seriously injured when she was forced to leap from a first floor widow to escape.
Instead, the aging widow Bernarda Alba personifies self-hatred and the ability of women to enforce the rules of men upon themselves.
The high-achieving sisters have since been widowed. Times, Sunday Times
A Totton widow has pledged to fulfil a promise to her dying husband and continue his battle for justice after his death.
The victim's widow protested at the leniency of the sentence.
He left a widow and newborn son. The Sun
In the old orthodox society the Sati system of widows mounting the funeral pyre of their husbands was an atrocious practice.
A couple on a bench become a woman's face; a peaceful walkway becomes a conflagration; a weeping widow morphs into an obelisk for an unknown soldier.
Widows were also entitled to a dower right to a third of their husband's land or income derived from the land.
After her astounding success with The Merry Widow, Elsie performed in sixteen more musical comedies, including The Dollar Princess in 1909; as “Franzi” in A Waltz Dream; and as “Angèle” in The Count of Luxembourg, both in 1911. Cocotte of the Week: Lily Elsie | Edwardian Promenade
The widow smiled at the compliment and went back to work preparing a feast of turkey, ham, sweet potatoes, green beans, deviled eggs, pecan pie and iced tea, made sweet for her friends from Texas.
One of the women lost her husband and son in a recent mine explosion that also turned several other townswomen into widows.
He died in March leaving a widow and three children.

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