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Spinsterhood Forsyte, June jilted by her fiance, becomes an old maid. [Br. Lit.: The Forsyte Saga] prim and proper schoolteacher, continually vexed by her students’ antics. [Comics: “Archie” in Horn, 87] old spinster; always wore her bridal dress though jilted on wedding day. [Br. Lit.: Great Expectations] rather than reveal that an orphan girl is her own child, she spends her life as an old maid. [Am. Lit.: Edith Wharton The Old Maid in Magill I, 679] becomes an old maid rather than marry a man interested in her inheritance. [Am. Lit.: Washington Square in Hart, 899] a spinster with marriage continually on her mind. [Br. Lit.: Quality Street, Magill I, 793–795] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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It was once the residence of a country squire, whose family, probably dwindling down to mere spinsterhood, got merged in the more territorial name of Donnithorne. And yet, though all these circumstances make the spinsterhood of this old maid an extraordinary thing, it is not difficult to explain how and why, in spite of her fortune and her three lovers, she was still unmarried. |
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