"Widow's weeds" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... horror, while she remained in the midst of all that could remind her of her husband; and, therefore, carried her away almost by force to the house of some relations near Toronto. When she came back, it would be to return to her old place in her brother-in-law's house, a pale, silent woman in widow's weeds, the very ghost of the gay bride who ...
— A Canadian Heroine, Volume 2 - A Novel • Mrs. Harry Coghill
... on their doorsteps in the sunshine, smiled at the lovely woman in white serge, who passed down their village street, so tall and graceful, beneath the shade of her scarlet parasol. An item in the doctor's prescription had been the discarding of widow's weeds, and it had seemed quite natural to Myra to come down to her first Cornish breakfast ...
— The Mistress of Shenstone • Florence L. Barclay
... girl's despair was terrible, and she took an oath never to marry. She faithfully kept her vow and adopted widow's weeds for the ...
— Maupassant Original Short Stories (180), Complete • Guy de Maupassant
... Maker. All of us was frightened so, there was no laugh among us, till we come to talk over it afterward. There the thundering rascal lay in the middle of that there mangerie of sea-stuff, as Mother Precious is so proud of, that the village calleth it the 'Widow's Weeds.' Blest if he didn't think that he were a-lying at the bottom of the sea, among the stars and cuttles, waiting for the day ...
— Mary Anerley • R. D. Blackmore
... her widow's weeds, but still dressed in black, the sombreness of her apparel harmonizing perfectly with her pale, creamy complexion. Her dress was always rich in material, and most carefully adjusted. In her younger days it had been an art with her,—almost a passion,—and ...
— Not Like Other Girls • Rosa N. Carey
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