spinster
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Regarded in her time as "a reclusive spinster that never left her house", she was determined to be free to pursue a life of artistic expression.
From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2026
“I’m a geriatric pregnant spinster who puts crystals in her bra,” Helen says in an unusual moment of self-awareness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2025
The house we lost was built in 1913 for a spinster heiress named Helen T. Longstreth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2025
"She's described in the record as a spinster," said Prof English.
From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2024
Ostensibly we were still an elderly watchmaker living with his two spinster daughters above his tiny shop.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Mrs Morgan ran it with her daughters, who were elderly spinsters.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2016
Considered spinsters back East, both Curtis and Stanley married younger men out West.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2015
It’s a message that doesn’t exactly allay the anxieties the book claims to be militating against—namely that we spinsters aren’t choosing our fates, we’re just losers in the marriage market.
From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2015
All of this, riveting in itself, underlines the breadth of Austen's experience of life; spinsters in vicarages know more of the human condition at first hand than might be imagined.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 8, 2013
For the greater number of her twenty-nine years, Bibi Haldar suffered from an ailment that baffled family, friends, priests, palmists, spinsters, gem therapists, prophets, and fools.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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