"Mateless" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... And the living lips were burning on the cold ones of the dead. And I left them with their dearest—dearest charge had every one— Left the maiden with her lover, left the mother with her son. I alone of all was mateless—far more wretched I than they, For the snow would not discover where my lord and husband lay. But I wandered up the valley, till I found him lying low, With the gash upon his bosom, and the frown upon his brow— Till I found him lying murdered where he ...
— The American Union Speaker • John D. Philbrick
... in the footpath that led along, following the shore toward the Port. At such a distance one can feel the large, positive qualities that control a character. Close at hand, Mrs. Todd seemed able and warm-hearted and quite absorbed in her bustling industries, but her distant figure looked mateless and appealing, with something about it that was strangely self-possessed and mysterious. Now and then she stooped to pick something,—it might have been her favorite pennyroyal,—and at last I lost sight of her as she slowly ...
— The Country of the Pointed Firs • Sarah Orne Jewett
... I must be mateless, I shall win One boon beyond the meed of common clay: My life shall end where other lives begin, And live when ...
— Pan and Aeolus: Poems • Charles Hamilton Musgrove |
