Sentence examples for like a spinster from inspiring English sources

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Ten years later, she leaned glumly against a high-backed chair, looking like a spinster with a case of indigestion after a big lunch.

And his smile, like a spinster's sachet — the last fragrance ebbed out long ago in the trousseau never used.

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"My poor grandma, she's always like, 'Why are you such a spinster?

Alongside the usual do-this-or-you'll-die-a-spinster must-haves like fine brows and a delicate jaw, the magazine said: "For maximum sex appeal, your eyes should be small and be positioned halfway down your face (like a baby's – don't ask) as a way of indicating youth and fertility.

"I'd like," Maisie complains to Miss Grange, a spinster "authoress" who has spent her life in this mansion-turned-resort, a story "in which the heroine is not directed straight into marriage".

So if you can park for yourself, for instance, you'll help to avoid the biggest peril of GL shopping, which is that overindulgence in the options list will cause you to faint like a Victorian spinster when you see the final sticker price.

Lizzie is a spinster.

What they used to call a spinster".

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