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WIDOW

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Traducere în limba română

widow I. substantiv

văduvă.

widow II. verb tranzitiv

1. a văduvi.

2. (poetic.) to widow of a văduvi de, a lipsi de.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

My mother, who was then a widow, brought her here to be company to her.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Of Mrs. Hilton Cubitt I only know that I have heard she recovered entirely, and that she still remains a widow, devoting her whole life to the care of the poor and to the administration of her husband’s estate.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is his widow, sir.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

We thought this intention very noble in Steerforth, whose mother was a widow, and rich, and would do almost anything, it was said, that he asked her.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

The widow looked bewildered.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

I ought to observe, however, in explanation of that lady's state of mind, that she was much offended by Peggotty's tucking up her widow's gown before she had been ten minutes in the place, and setting to work to dust my bedroom.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

My mother was, no doubt, unusually youthful in appearance even for her years; she hung her head, as if it were her fault, poor thing, and said, sobbing, that indeed she was afraid she was but a childish widow, and would be but a childish mother if she lived.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

“The pretty little widow?”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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