unwed

Much has been written about the unwed, middle-aged woman; her fussiness, her primness, her angularity of mind and body.

The staid and harassed brother of three unwed and selfish sisters is an under dog.

Better for thee to have died childless and unwed than thus to bring shame on thy father and all thy kinsfolk and people.

And the youngest-born, the Lady Lucy, I take it, is yet unwed?

The pitying world looks on and measures the unwed lovers' loss, but who can measure their gain?

We seek a single woman, an unwed woman, who would work for pay and learn the new ways.

And the generations crowded one against another; a girl worried about spinsterhood if she reached seventeen unwed.

Unwed, unfancied, ware of wiles, they fingerponder nightly each his variorum edition of The Taming of the Shrew.

Under the moonlight dance the unwed brides, veiled and in flowing robes; Gerbert thinks he sees Ida among them.

Why dost thou pass thy years unwed, following arms, thirsting for throats?