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«It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.»
Author: Dolores Ibarruri (Pasionaria)
(Journalist, Orator, Politician)
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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.»
«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 not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man.»