Widower Sentence Examples

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  • But he was a widower when he died.

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  • He was to remain a widower for 43 years.

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  • Six weeks later she married the 41 year old widower.

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  • He was a widower with seven children, his wife died 12 months ago.

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  • Sam is a recent widower who is seeking someone new.

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  • Where there is no will or its provisions are waived, the right of a widow, in addition to her dower and homestead rights, in the personal estate of a deceased husband is the same as that of a widower, in addition to his estate by courtesy and homestead right, in the personal estate of a deceased wife, i.e.

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  • By releasing his or her right of dower or courtesy together with the homestead right, if any, the surviving widower or widow is also entitled, in fee, to one-half the real estate, if said deceased leaves no issue surviving; if the husband leaves issue by the widow surviving, she is entitled in fee to one-third of his real estate; if the wife leaves issue by him surviving, the husband also is entitled in fee to one-third of her estate; but if the wife leaves issue not by him, he is entitled only to a life interest in one-third of her real estate.

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  • A widower is entitled by courtesy to a life interest in all his wife's real estate; if she dies intestate, he is entitled to all her personal estate; if she dies intestate, leaving no descendants and no paternal or maternal kindred, he is entitled to her whole estate absolutely.

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  • Mamma, one need not be ashamed of his being a widower?

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  • A widower gets his elderly housekeeper to perform a striptease in his dead wife 's clothes.

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  • The widow 's, widower 's or civil partner 's pension is payable at the rate of one-half of your deferred pension.

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  • My PHILLIPS family on 1891 census for Queens Street, Swinton have JOHN CROSSLEY, widower aged 75 years living with them.

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  • Born and brought up in Kilmarnock (East Ayrshire) by his widower father, who was a colliery foreman.

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  • All service is covered for family benefits, therefore the widower 's pension is equal to half the member 's own pension.

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  • He was 54 years old at the time and was a widower with sons in their late teens and early twenties.

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  • I have been a widower for three years now.

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  • If you are a widow or widower, then you may need to cultivate a good support system of friends and family.

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  • She played the eldest daughter of a widower living in San Francisco, California.

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  • I was set up on a date with a widower of 5 years.

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  • What you know about the widower is, he doesn't think of you that way.

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  • Tom is George's brother, a widower, a farmer, and a former reverend.

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  • A widow or widower who is taking care of a child of the deceased.

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  • In 1642 she was married to the duc de Longueville, governor of Normandy, a widower twice her age.

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  • The property rights of husband and wife are nearly equal; a wife may hold her property the same as if single, and a widower or a widow is entitled to the use for life of one-third of the real estate of which his or her deceased consort was seized at the time of his or her death.

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  • Having been left a widower on the 3rd of June 1877, he married on the 7th of January 1879 Adelheid Emma Wilhelmina Theresia, second daughter of Prince George Victor of Waldeck-Pyrmont, born on the 2nd of August 1858, and Wilhelmina was the only issue of that union.

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  • Her correspondence in cipher from thence with her English agents abroad, intercepted by Walsingham and deciphered by his secretary, gave eager encouragement to the design for a Spanish invasion of England Under the prince of Parma, - an enterprise in which she would do her utmost to make her son take part, and in case of his refusal would induce the Catholic nobles of Scotland to betray him into the hands of Philip, from whose tutelage he should be released only on her demand, or if after her death he should wish to return, nor then unless he had become a Catholic. But even these patriotic and maternal schemes to consign her child and re-consign the kingdom to the keeping of the Inquisition, incarnate in the widower of Mary Tudor, were superseded by the attraction of a conspiracy against the throne and life of Elizabeth.

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  • The Belgian citizen on reaching the age of thirty-five, providing he is married or is a widower with legitimate offspring and pays five francs of direct taxes, gets a second vote.

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  • It was for this reason that the name of Leopold of Saxe-Coburg, the widower of Princess Charlotte of England, had not been placed among the candidates in January.

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  • In 1582 Coke married the daughter of John Paston, a gentleman of Suffolk, receiving with her a fortune of £30,000; but in six months he was left a widower.

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  • Van Buren, a widower, sided with the president in this affair and grew in his favour.

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  • Cromwell rashly sought to wed Henry to this policy, proposed Anne of Cleves as a bride for Henry, now once more a widower, and represented the marriage as Englands sole protection against a Catholic league.

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  • A widow is entitled to a dower in one-third of her husband's real estate, and a widower is life tenant by courtesy of all the real estate of which his wife died seized and not disposed of by her last will, unless she leaves issue by a former husband, to whom the estate might descend, in which case her estate passes immediately to such issue.

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  • The widow's, widow's, widower 's or civil partner's pension is payable at the rate of one-half of your deferred pension.

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  • You can imagine his distress at being left a widower, for he would rather die than take a mistress.

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  • Before the Great War he became a widower, with a still young family to manage.

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  • She meets the wealthy widower Maxim de Winter (Laurence Olivier) in Monte Carlo, where they fall in love and get married.

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  • Vijay is adopted by a kindly and lonely widower, who showers all his affection and love on him.

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  • In 1886 Asquith was elected as the Liberal MP for East Fife, despite the constraints of being a young widower with five children.

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  • The widow's, widower 's or civil partner's pension is payable at the rate of one-half of your deferred pension.

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  • A widower is in any case entitled by courtesy to one-third of his wife's real estate, and he may choose between his rights by courtesy and the provisions of his wife's will.

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  • The same care for his welfare led his father to choose him a bride in the powerful Cilli family, but the young Elizabeth died before the marriage was consummated, leaving Matthias a widower at the age of fifteen.

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  • The homestead of a householder who is the head of a family or of any resident of the state who has attained the age of sixty years is exempt, to the value of $1500, or 160 acres of land, from execution and attachment arising from any debt, contract or civil obligation other than taxes, purchase money or improvements, so long as it is occupied by the owner or his or her family, and the exemption inures for the benefit of a widow, widower or minor children.

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  • He married in 1891 Annie Pitcairn, daughter of Harrington Robley, of Glasgow, by whom he had a family; but he was left a widower in 1909.

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  • His own interests turned more strongly to the East, when on the 9th of November 1 225, after having been a widower since 1222, he married Ilande (Yolande or Isabella), daughter of John, count of Brienne, titular king of Jerusalem.

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  • A widower gets his elderly housekeeper to perform a striptease in his dead wife's clothes.

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  • After the death of Margaret Plays, her widower found, with the peculiar instinct of his race, a second well-endowed wife.

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  • Soon after her husband's death in 1372 Catherine became the mistress of John of Gaunt, and in 1396, nearly two years after the duke had become a widower for the second time, she was married to him at Lincoln.

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  • It was then offered to Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg, widower of the princess Charlotte of England, and accepted by him.

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  • In the absence of a will, bar or release, there is no legal distinction between the rights of a widower in the estate of his deceased wife and those of a widow in the estate of her deceased husband.

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  • A homestead not exceeding $1000 in value, and held by a husband and wife or by a widow or widower with an unmarried daughter or an unmarried minor son, may be held exempt from seizure and sale by legal process.

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  • The property of an intestate leaving a widow or widower, but no issue, goes to the survivor if not over $5000 in value; if over that amount, one-half the excess goes to the survivor and one-half to the father and mother of the deceased or to either of them.

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  • He assumed the title of king of the Lombards, and having been a widower since 946, married Adelaide and negotiated with pope Agapetus II.

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  • However doubtful such conjectures concerning his intentions may be, it is certain that immediately after his coronation Charles sought to establish friendly relations with Constantinople, and even suggested a marriage between himself and Irene, as he had again become a widower in 800.

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  • Queen Elizabeth, with the almost incredible want of tact or instinctive delicacy which distinguished and disfigured her vigorous intelligence, had recently proposed as a suitor to the queen of Scots her own low-born favourite, Lord Robert Dudley, the widower if not the murderer of Amy Robsart; and she now protested against the project of marriage between Mary and Darnley.

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  • A widower is entitled to a share in his wife's personal estate equal to the share of a child, and if there are 4 In 1907, in Missouri, as in various other states, passenger rates were reduced by law to 2 cents per mile; but this law was declared unconstitutional in 1909.

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