wifeless

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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, childless, living solitary, dying alone, unregretled, unmourned.

From The Manxman A Novel - 1895 by Caine, Hall, Sir

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

From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Zangwill, Israel

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