"Unmarried woman" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... we mean, sexual intercourse out of wedlock. The term applies either to intercourse between any man and a prostitute, between an unmarried man and a married woman, between an unmarried man and an unmarried woman or between a married man and a married woman not his wife. The term, illicit intercourse, applies to all ...
— The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction - Also Sexual Hygiene with Special Reference to the Male • Winfield S. Hall
... "The Land and the Book," says: "They paint their cheeks, putting tahl around their eyes, arching their eyebrows with the same, and stain their hands and feet with henna thus to deck themselves, and should an unmarried woman do so, an impression is conveyed highly ...
— Museum of Antiquity - A Description of Ancient Life • L. W. Yaggy
... name of a married woman, Miss that of an unmarried woman, no matter whether the initials or Christian names are used ...
— News Writing - The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories • M. Lyle Spencer
... disappointed," I said, looking hard at the family, who weren't making any particular pretense at grief, and at the house people standing around the door. "Maybe you think it's funny to see an unmarried woman get a set of waistcoat buttons and a medical book. Well, that set of buttons was the set he bought in London on his wedding trip, and the book's the one he read himself to sleep with every night for twenty years. ...
— Where There's A Will • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... an unmarried woman like you to be takin' care of him," said her mother, and a sudden blush flamed over ...
— Pembroke - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... nothing. I shall stay at home—like the little pig," I said, trying to laugh, and succeeding very badly. "I shall help Vere with her marriage preparations, and visit her in her new home, and take care of the parents in their old age. Father says there ought always to be one unmarried woman in every family to play Aunt Mary in time of need. I shall be ...
— The Heart of Una Sackville • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
... family Aunt Mehetabel was certainly the most unimportant member. It was in the New England days, when an unmarried woman was an old maid at twenty, at forty was everyone's servant, and at sixty had gone through so much discipline that she could need no more in the next world. Aunt ...
— Hillsboro People • Dorothy Canfield |
