grass-widow

However, later, when Billie falls ill food poisoning, milked for comedic effect, Mama has to beg Millie to fill in for Billie so that Rich Suitor won't be distracted by Billie's nemesis, the unscrupulous grass-widow Carlotta.

July 2008 2008

However, later, when Billie falls ill food poisoning, milked for comedic effect, Mama has to beg Millie to fill in for Billie so that Rich Suitor won't be distracted by Billie's nemesis, the unscrupulous grass-widow Carlotta.

Don't Worry, These Stories Usually End In Weddings - A Dress A Day 2008

There were half a dozen: two or three débutantes, an actress (in a minor way), a grass-widow, and one sentimental little brunette who was married and lived in a little house in Jersey City.

Flappers and Philosophers 2003

I gave a moment's thought to what a certain not very old lady, whom I had left at home, might say when she heard of my lodging with a grass-widow and three young girls, and sprung into bed.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

I gave a moment's thought to what a certain not very old lady, whom I had left at home, might say when she heard of my lodging with a grass-widow and three young girls, and sprang into bed.

Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time James R. Gilmore

"Our virtue is all we po 'fo'ks has got -- if we lose that we ain't got nothin' lef '," Mrs. Banks of grass-widow fame had once said, and saying it had expressed Cottontown's opinion.

The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore

But she did not fancy Simla in the season as a grass-widow, and had had quite enough of being alone.

Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts

The place was run by a family of three ... there was Mister Brown, the man, a huge-built, blotch-faced, retired stone-mason, his meagre little wife, Mrs. Brown, and their grass-widow daughter, Flora ....

Tramping on Life Kemp, Harry, 1883-1960 1922

The place was run by a family of three ... there was Mister Brown, the man, a huge-built, blotch-faced, retired stone-mason, his meagre little wife, Mrs. Brown, and their grass-widow daughter, Flora ....

Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative Harry Kemp 1921

There were half a dozen: two or three débutantes, an actress (in a minor way), a grass-widow, and one sentimental little brunette who was married and lived in a little house in Jersey City.

Flappers and Philosophers 1918