Polybus being
childless adopted the boy, who grew up believing that he was indeed the King's son.
The MacAndrews, who were
childless and in easy circumstances, arranged to undertake the care of the children, and Mrs.
This excessive rumination and self-questioning is perhaps a morbid habit inevitable to a mind of much moral sensibility when shut out from its due share of outward activity and of practical claims on its affections--inevitable to a noble-hearted,
childless woman, when her lot is narrow.
And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from
childless men; which have sought to express the images of their minds, where those of their bodies have failed.
Noel Vans tone's
childless widow, and the other half is divided among Mr.
Cutter had purposely remained
childless, with the determination to outlive him and to share his property with her `people,' whom he detested.
He is then immediately taken from his proud yet sorrowing parents and adopted by some
childless Equilateral, who is bound by oath never to permit the child henceforth to enter his former home or so much as to look upon his relations again, for fear lest the freshly developed organism may, by force of unconscious imitation, fall back again into his hereditary level.
Everybody has heard of the popular old lady--the
childless widow of a long-forgotten lord.
One day the Queen was sitting at the window weeping bitterly because she was
childless, and knew that the crown would therefore pass to strangers after the King's death.
If it should turn out that these suspicions are correct, and he has embezzled large sums, he must lie on his bed as he has made it.' And then looking up at Macewen with a nod, and one of his strange smiles: 'Good- bye,' said he, and Macewen, perceiving the case to be too grave for consolation, took himself off, and blessed God on his way home that he was
childless.
It is also absurd to render property equal, and not to provide for the increasing number of the citizens; but to leave that circumstance uncertain, as if it would regulate itself according to the number of women who [1265b] should happen to be
childless, let that be what it would because this seems to take place in other cities; but the case would not be the same in such a state which he proposes and those which now actually unite; for in these no one actually wants, as the property is divided amongst the whole community, be their numbers what they will; but as it could not then be divided, the supernumeraries, whether they were many or few, would have nothing at all.
He was well over fifty, and his wife, to whom he had been married for thirty years, was
childless; he did not look forward with any pleasure to the presence of a small boy who might be noisy and rough.