Did you not on this very spot abuse matrimony so vehemently, that you even alarmed, and terrified such an old widower as I am?
"The Dead Lake and Other Tales"
Paul Heyse
He too conceived an attachment for Marianne Pajot, and married her, being already a widower, at the age of twenty-three.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
Monsieur Gerbault, formerly a clerk in one of the government offices, has only a modest fortune; he is a widower with two daughters, to both of whom he has given an excellent education.
"Monsieur Cherami"
Charles Paul de Kock