What is "widower"

Usage examples of "widower".

He was a widower and lived alone except for a ten-kilo purebred, bluepoint Ragdoll cat named Max.

With beaded mitre and with crozier, stalled upon his throne, widower of a widowed see, with upstiffed omophorion, with clotted hinderparts.

But, after all, Balu had told himself, the zamindar was a lonely widower approaching his middle years, and Leela was a voluptuous beauty less than half his age and no doubt well schooled in the art of pleasing men.

He spent four hours a day alongside the owner, Murray Saltzman, a stoop-shouldered, hardworking widower who filled Lo Manto with sorrowful stories of lost lives and ruined bodies left in the wreckage of a war and a hatred he would never come to understand.

None the less, the monogamists, after due reflection, will point out that if there are widowers enough the superfluous women are not really superfluous, and therefore there is no reason why the parties should not marry respectably like other people.

Neither a sempstress nor an inferior actress could she persuade, for all her zeal, to unite themselves with a hand in an oil mill, a widower with two children.

Though I met the entrance requirements, being masculine and a widower, I was frankly queasy at the thought of witnessing the rapine that Ingerson had described and feared that I could not do so without interfering.

Donough told the round-shouldered, brown-haired Cumara, who in spite of being a widower was but a decade older than himself.

Parchman died when Eunice was thirty-seven, and her widower immediately took over as resident invalid.

Tired of frequenting fairs and roaming the country, the Auvergnat settled at Limoges, where he married, in 1797, the daughter of a coppersmith, a widower, named Champagnac.

The Mastersingers, a work full of health, fun and happiness, contains not a single bar of love music that can be described as passionate: the hero of it is a widower who cobbles shoes, writes verses, and contents himself with looking on at the sweetheartings of his customers.

There were to be five gentlemen, so that each lady would have an arm to lean on when they went into dinner: Mr Carswall himself, Mr Noak, Sir George and Captain Ruispidge, and according to the original plan the Rector of Flaxern Parva, who providentially was a widower and so did not have a wife to unbalance the numbers.

Jefferson had been left a widower with three young children, his political career over, he thought, his political ambitions dissolved.

George Ashton was a widower in his mid-fifties who lived with his daughters in a brick-built Queen Anne house of the type you see advertised in a full-page spread in Country Life.

He told me he was a widower, that Adele was his only child, that he was going to set up in business at Louviers, and so on.