Spinster has become a dirty word.
Surely, isn't the same for Spinsters!
Who said I am a Spinster?
This is our little daughter, a Spinster.
I'm not like some Spinster aunt or anything.
Don't let yourself become an old lonely Spinster.
Buddy! Maara! She's still a Spinster!
Poor Dad. Just an old Spinster.
Not whether she was a Spinster or a widow.
Jessie never married, and remained a Spinster all her life.
Why is that? I think a Spinster has more independence.
That Spinster stigma study: Others ignore you or they are intrusive.
They really only have two viable choices-
marriage or to become a Spinster.
After so many rejections, I was scared, my niece will remain a Spinster.
And so many of them were single, what we would call“Spinsters” in those days.
In December 1908, Marion Gilchrist, a wealthy 82-year-old Spinster, was found murdered in her home.
She pretended to be an eccentric English Spinster working at a charity that took care of Palestinian children.
Bette Davis, in the movie Now Voyager(1942), plays a Spinster aunt who laments that she will"never have a home of my own,
nor a child of my own.".
Similar to a social networking site, it enabled bachelors and Spinsters to browse a catalogue of options
and then write to each other via a central office in London.
According to the commentators of the rabbinic Jewish tradition, Jepthah's daughter was not sacrificed,
but was forbidden to marry and remained a Spinster her entire life,
fulfilling the vow that she would be devoted to the Lord.
According to some commentators of the rabbinic Jewish tradition, Jepthah's daughter was not sacrificed,
but was forbidden to marry and remained a Spinster her entire life,
fulfilling the vow that she would be devoted to the Lord.
The Sadie Hawkins Dance took place on the evening before the race, and the Spinster girls traditionally wore hob-nailed boots
to“unintentionally” stomp on the feet of the single men in attendance, which unfortunately(for them) might adversely affect their ability to run the next day during the race.
I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, and vouching for things of which I knew nothing,
and generally assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, Spinster, to Godfrey Norton, bachelor.