It is now bringing "The dust of him I shall not see Till all my widowed race be run."
"A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam'"
Alfred Gatty
Therefore he spent much of his time in managing her affairs, which called him out of town; and he became known as a tremendous worker,-to rival his record as a loafer, Mr. Whittle himself said; but Silas Davy knew, and even the people admitted it, that he was greatly devoted to his young mistress, and that he had no other aim in life than to make her as comfortable as possible in her widowed condition.
"The Mystery of the Locks"
Edgar Watson Howe
From the time when her husband my dear brother was buried with his comrades in one common grave on the field of battle, her widowed grief, up to a few weeks ago, had always remained the same.
"The Dead Lake and Other Tales"
Paul Heyse