| 1 | A lone woman going on holiday to a honeymoon island like Matlock was a contradiction in terms. | |
| 2 | Once upon a time, if the queen wore black - as Britain' s widowed Victoria did - so did everyone in the nation. | |
| 3 | For the last thirteen years of her life she was a widow in a land where she was not liked, ruled by a son who hated her. | |
| 4 | But with the help of the now widowed Grazia, Christophe spent ten fruitful years in Switzerland. | |
| 5 | My maternal grandmother, after having nine children who survived, one who died in infancy, and many miscarriages, as soon as she became a widow, devoted herself to woman's higher education. |