Sentence examples for deceased first from inspiring English sources

And who, pray, was the second Mrs. Watson, the unnamed successor to his deceased first wife?

The public thought Wilson should have spent more time mourning his deceased first wife.

In 1848, he married the poet Agnes Luckemeyer, who was persuaded to change her name to Mathilde, which happened also to be the name both of Wesendonck's deceased first wife and of his beloved sister.

There were many reasons for Eliot to be wary of matrimony, but most of them could be expressed in the fateful and tragic name of Vivien Haigh-Wood, his recently deceased first wife.

The play will soon be revived at the Shubert, with Angela Lansbury starring as a medium who accidentally conjures an Englishman's deceased first wife, much to the consternation of his second.

She offers no quotation from Roosevelt's "brief biographical sketch" of his deceased first wife, although it is one of the most eloquent and anguished cries from the heart to be found in American political literature.

Dunmore's previous work, a supernatural novella entitled The Greatcoat, featured a deceased second world war airman who returns to reinhabit the thick worsted of his RAF uniform, thus proving perhaps that even ghosts feel the chill.

Most recipients hit delete, delete, delete, without ever opening the messages that urge them to claim the untold riches of a long-lost deceased second cousin, or offer millions of dollars to help smuggle loot stolen by a corrupt Nigerian official.

By the end of The Falls, Dirk Burnaby, who had been so misunderstood, has become an iconic figure, celebrated at a public occasion commemorating his activism and his achievements, as if the novel has gone full circle, from the mythologising of Ariah to the mythologising of her deceased second husband.

Born in 1935 to a family of farmers in the outer reaches of the Tibetan cultural domain, he was a two-year-old toddler when a search party of monks from Lhasa identified him as the potential reincarnation of the recently deceased Thirteenth Dalai Lama.

Chicago and Los Angeles four each, and Washington three (with many in the capital still mourning the recently deceased fourth paper, the Times-Herald).