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Tabitha

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Tabitha (tăb`ĭthə), same as Dorcas Dorcas or Tabitha [Gr. Dorcas and Aramaic Tabitha=gazelle], in the Acts of the Apostles, Christian woman of Joppa whom St. Peter raised from the dead. She made clothes for the poor.
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Tabitha
Mr. Bramble’s virago sister; bent on matrimony. [Br. Lit.: Humphry Clinker]


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Tabitha Porter was an old maid, upwards of sixty years of age, fifty-five of which she had sat in that same chimney-corner, such being the length of time since Peter's grandfather had taken her from the almshouse.
 
 
 
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