The childlessness of the king was a constant threat to the policy of his great minister Richelieu; for the king's brother and heir, Gaston of Orleans, was a determined opponent of that policy.   anvd [Please select]

And so while they pitied her childlessness, the women of Polotzk regarded her misfortune as perhaps no more than a due punishment.   anvd [Please select]

It is an everyday experience that business worries and responsibilities in men, domestic anxieties or childlessness in women, have the power to ruin health, even in those who habitually or grossly break none of its laws.   anvd [Please select]

The husband admired Bertha's elegance, lamenting her childlessness in secret, almost as though it were a crime of high treason.   anvd [Please select]

They had so long agreed that "perhaps it would be just as well not to have any children for a while yet," that childlessness had come to be natural.   anvd [Please select]

Yet he never made her feel her childlessness as a reproach--she admits this in her evidence--but seemed to try to make her forget it by showering gifts and favours on her.   anvd [Please select]

Why had he, contrary to all custom, so decidedly refused to marry a noble and beautiful girl, when his brother's childlessness rendered marriage an evident and urgent duty for him.   anvd [Please select]

Childlessness, however, was not confined to the wealthy, since the poorer classes, crowded in the huge lodging houses of the cities, had no real family life.   anvd [Please select]

And by this route he came at last to a thought of her that novel for him--the pitying recollection of her childlessness.   anvd [Please select]

"Her childlessness has been a final grief," she added; "a child, as she has often told me, would be a resurrection from the dead."   anvd [Please select]