"Divorcee" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the ground she has often argued with herself.] I meant to; but a divorcee has no place in society. I felt horridly lonely! I wanted a friend. Philip was ideal as a friend—for months. Isn't it nice to bind ...
— Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: The New York Idea • Langdon Mitchell
... disabled from marriage, gives a delightful sense both of zest and security. On the other hand, the separated lady must be to a certain extent circumspect, lest she should place a weapon for further punishment in the hands of her husband. But to the Divorcee all ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99., October 11, 1890 • Various
... I'll hev the law on him for breaking up my happy home. Two of my old beaux're coming to the thrashing and if they was to see me without my teeth they'd jest naturally make Jim miserable and me a divorcee." ...
— Green Valley • Katharine Reynolds
... romantic!" gushed a billowy divorcee, clinging to the young fellow's athletic arm with little shivers of delight. "To think of you in this great, savage, wild land, among these strange people. Aren't you just ...
— The Winning of Barbara Worth • Harold B Wright
... beetles under spyglasses has been gradually extended to drowning mice in cages and seeing pigs killed. Time develops the germ; the cruel boy becomes the callous doctor or "sharp-practising" attorney, and the cruel girl becomes the cruel mother and often the frail divorcee. Drink and cards are an obsession with some; cruelty is just as much a matter of obsession with others. But the ingenuity of the occult brain rises to higher things; it rises to the subtlest form of invention when dealing ...
— Byways of Ghost-Land • Elliott O'Donnell |
