Target for Joseph Cotten in Hitchcock's "Shadow of a Doubt"

Usage examples of widow.

I had likewise occasion to become acquainted at the Venetian Embassy with a lady from Venice, the widow of an English baronet named Wynne.

He was brought to justice, and sentenced to death, and his property was adjudged to his widow, who shortly after married the page who had saved her life.

Not only had she been made a widow during her twentieth anniversary celebration, but she and her daughter were locked in cages, kept like slaves for the amusement of a couple of demented perverts.

And I recommend to them that, while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners, or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty hand to heal the wounds of the nation, and to restore it, as soon as may be consistent with divine purposes, to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity, and union.

Madame Marion, widow of a former receiver-general of the department of the Aube, presented a singular appearance.

One was a widow who had said bawdily that she was longing to feel a good man between her legs again.

Those were always remarkably alike, every one seeming to be owned by a widow lady of formidable dimensions and creaking corsets, commanding a staff that consisted of her numerous beefy daughters.

I soon made myself at home with her, and found out, when she began to talk, that she was neither a widow nor the niece of the Pope.

The bluffy individual, doubtless a Republican who had pocketed his many thousands, spoke of the widows of the land, made so by the war.

And all that time the noblemen and noblewomen sat here comfortably, sipping their wine and boggle, worrying more about fine clothes than a poor old widow who was about to be executed by the terrible powries in Caer Tinella, fighting with their quiet insults whispered behind backs rather than with sword and honest wit.

Le Duc had scarcely gone an hour when a messenger on foot came to bring me a second letter from the widow.

Hanoverian lady, a widow and the mother of five daughters, came to England two months ago with her whole family.

Grace called 911, administered all the first aid revival techniques she knew, and then had the painful duty of driving out to the farm to tell Cig that she was a widow.

Moreover, it turned out a very fortunate thing for my mother that she had studied for the stage, for nine years later, having been left a widow with six children, she could not have brought them up if it had not been for the resources she found in that profession.

My encounter with the impudent widow had so affected me that I could not resist going at an early hour on the following day to communicate it to M.