So long as she wishes it, stay with her; for myself, I go alone, Wifeless and childless."
"Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life"
Ann S. Stephens
The childless, Wifeless man looking down from the hill wondered if it might have been so with him had he been content to stay in the valley.
"Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906"
Lucy Maud Montgomery
He was a friendless, Wifeless, homeless man who could not so much as look his fellow men in the face, who must henceforth consort with outcasts.
"Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906"
Lucy Maud Montgomery