wifeless

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But Nobody, in one of Cummings' descriptions of him, is "Wifeless and only half awake, cursed with pimples, correctly dressed, cleanshaven above the nombril . . . in brief: an American."

From Time Magazine Archive

Wifeless and childless, he has few bonds with the future, is bent only on uncovering his links with the past.

From Time Magazine Archive

Wifeless, childless, moneyless, he stood, a solitary soul wrestling with problems.

From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Zangwill, Israel

Wifeless, cotless, bairnless, he had slept, since early boyhood, under strange roofs, eaten the bread of the hireling, and sat dumb at other men's firesides.

From Greyfriars Bobby by Atkinson, Eleanor Stackhouse

Wifeless, childless, he was put under no bonds to struggle with the world.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 by Various