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Meanings of elderly spinster in English

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Usage of elderly spinster in English
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Moreover, the six hundred thousand francs had settled the elderly spinster's indecision.
Les Misérables
2
The other was the murder of an elderly spinster schoolteacher on Sandford Road.
The new yorker
3
The little elderly spinster was no longer slightly ridiculous to Vera.
And Then There Were None
4
Miss Jeremy lived with an elderly spinster cousin, a short distance out of town.
Sight Unseen
5
To the unpractised eye the writing resembles the prim, angular hand of an elderly spinster.
Literary Lapses
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She was an elderly spinster approaching senility, who found her Comforter in a toy panda.
The new yorker
7
And she gave me an elderly spinster to dance attendance upon while she amused herself.
The Tidal Wave and Other Stories
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He also got his two elderly spinster landladies out of their house minutes before it collapsed.
The new yorker
9
She was on a visit to Lady Janet Gordon, an elderly spinster, who lived in Park-street.
Robert Falconer
10
The room smelled like an elderly spinster's perfume.
Mysterious Skin
11
Two of the four rooms on the third floor were also let-oneto an elderly spinster, a Mlle.
Father Goriot
12
She was only an elderly spinster.
The Law-Breakers and Other Stories
13
The odd part of it was that the object thus proudly proclaimed was merely a gentle, fussy-looking, elderly spinster.
Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories
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They had unconsciously been expecting to see the usual type of elderly spinster as known to their experience .
Anne of Avonlea
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M. Myriel had arrived at D--accompanied by an elderly spinster, Mademoiselle Baptistine, who was his sister, and ten years his junior.
Les Misérables
16
The professional spirit is the spirit in which a man carefully and courteously woos an elderly spinster for the sake of her comfortable fortune.
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