| 11. | She had gone along out of love for Houghton, her first lover after a lifetime of spinsterhood.
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| 12. | There is little stigma left to premarital sex, or spinsterhood, though divorce is still considered mildly scandalous.
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| 13. | About 90 percent of the women had been married by the age of forty, and spinsterhood was rare.
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| 14. | Alise Kincarrion is a plain, freckled young woman, past the prime age for marriage and suspecting spinsterhood.
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| 15. | As oldest sister Olga, Deborah Strang tries to be strong, yet succumbs to her grueling job and spinsterhood.
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| 16. | The early use in English seems to be about spinsterhood, but the French meaning has nothing to do with marriage.
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| 17. | The story begins eight years later, when Anne is 27 and therefore on the verge of 19th-century spinsterhood.
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| 18. | "Their oft-repeated excuse is that they want to help wipe out spinsterhood, " she wrote.
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| 19. | Much more significant than the option of becoming a nun, was the option of non-religious spinsterhood in the West.
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| 20. | The eldest, Jia-Jen ( Kuei-Mei Yang ) is a born-again schoolteacher inching her way toward spinsterhood.
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