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Letter "W" » widow
«It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.»
Author: Dolores Ibarruri (Pasionaria)
(Journalist, Orator, Politician)
| Keywords:
coward, widow, widowed
«The poor fatherless baby of eight months is now the utterly broken-hearted and crushed widow of forty-two! My life as a happy one is ended! the world is gone for me! If I must live on (and I will do nothing to make me worse than I am), it is henceforth for our poor fatherless children -- for my unhappy country, which has lost all in losing him -- and in only doing what I know and feel he would wish.»
Author: Queen Victoria
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crushed, ended, fatherless, forty-two, Forty eight, hearted, henceforth, widow
«In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.»
«Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before.»
«The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.»
«They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.»
«Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children: / But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments.»
«Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.»
«Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man.»
«They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.»
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