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  • After the debate one of Obama's spinster's said "well as you know we have had a busy week working on the economy and he didn't have much time to prepare".

    McCain Campaign Again Blames Obama For Bailout Collapse While Calling For End To Fingerpointing 2009

  • I wondered if Wireman would've had better luck with What's a lawyer doing as a rich old spinster's houseman?

    Duma Key King, Stephen, 1947- 2008

  • Fingers: "'Hooray, hooray for the spinster's sister's daughter."

    Alright...show of hands! Who HASN'T read Terry Pratchett, yet? rabid1st 2003

  • We are not asked to consider the man's sensations as he first unhooks the spinster's bra.

    A Quiet Genius 2001

  • We are not asked to consider the man's sensations as he first unhooks the spinster's bra.

    A Quiet Genius 2001

  • Especially enjoyable is "The Case of the Naked Bicyclists," in which a puritanical spinster's complaints about her neighbor's nighttime frolics with young women lead to a murder inquiry that forces Holmes to test the limits of his unorthodox investigative techniques.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2003

  • Especially enjoyable is "The Case of the Naked Bicyclists," in which a puritanical spinster's complaints about her neighbor's nighttime frolics with young women lead to a murder inquiry that forces Holmes to test the limits of his unorthodox investigative techniques.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2003

  • She wished she could simply return to the rather dull spinster's life she had been living until a few weeks before.

    Unforgiven Balogh, Mary 1998

  • She took a breath, pulling the sour, intermingled smells of gray and beer and smoke and whiskey deep into her spinster's lungs.

    Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

  • A spinster's face, Malik thought, knowing that it was chauvinist of him but thinking he was right just the same.

    Empire Builders Bova, Ben 1993

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