To have "predestined spinster" written large all over you was bad enough, without being played upon thus and then cast back into spinsterhood after all!
"The Story of Louie"
Oliver Onions
Anne was at the age that sets twenty- five years as the definite boundary of spinsterhood.
"Sisters"
Kathleen Norris
Nor were the pens of the Brennans silent; and looking over their shoulders, on which the mantles of spinsterhood were fast descending, one read: 'I hear they danced at the Castle three times together last night .
"Muslin"
George Moore