1 | The poor good old woman was a spinster. | |
2 | Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by Incapacity. | |
3 | She's had three husbands and I'll be an old maid. | |
4 | "Mother is not an old maid, " said his virgin sister with pinched lips. | |
5 | A childless single woman of a certain age is no longer automatically perceived as a barren spinster. |