If she could have been but just created, to discover herself as a Spouseless mother, with no experience of life except as the parent of a nameless child, would the position have caused her to despair?
"Tess of the d'Urbervilles A Pure Woman"
Thomas Hardy
Then home To my still marriage-chamber I shall come, And Spouseless, childless, watch the slow years crawl.
"Reviews"
Oscar Wilde
"Nay, since Nanette ran off with a street singer and left me Spouseless, I have made a vow of celibacy," hastily answered the piping voice of the lank scholar.
"Under the Rose"
Frederic Stewart Isham