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Meanings of old spinster in English

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Usage of old spinster in English
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It melted the old spinster, and she fell to kissing her, saying:
Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker / Sometime Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel on ...
2
And Amy had the tricks and manners of an old spinster.
The Old Wives' Tale
3
There sits a spry little old spinster whom they know well.
The Song of the Lark
4
With these words the old spinster turned her back upon him and left the house.
A Hungarian Nabob
5
The scarred veteran was afraid of that old spinster.
Les Misérables
6
The old spinster used to wake up when these ditties ceased, and ask for more.
Vanity Fair
7
Had he drunk a dozen bottles of claret, the old spinster could have pardoned him.
Vanity Fair
8
So he sent me to his old spinster alma mater to major in nonhuman humanities.
The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth
9
Barren herself, a fierce old spinster, Old Central borrowed other people's children over the decades.
Summer of Night
10
That austere old spinster talked in her delirium of other days and denied that they had altered.
Destiny
11
They would bombard her with ponderous questions and undoubtedly think she was merely a nervous old spinster.
The Bat
12
Her mother's cousin stood in the doorway- aprimlittle old spinster, who had been their guest for several days.
Mildred's Inheritance; Just Her Way; Ann's Own Way
13
I'll be an old spinster.
Savage
14
Her name is Rechelsea Truthful Tomlinson Pettis and she is the dearest little old spinster lady-muchnicer than her name.
Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill; Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret
15
Miss Osborne, George's aunt, was a faded old spinster, broken down by more than forty years of dulness and coarse usage.
Vanity Fair
16
In 1807 an old spinster lived there, but she froze to death and was pecked to the bone by gulls and crows.
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