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Definition of Daughterless
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Daughterless
Literary usage of Daughterless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Piney Home by George Selwyn Kimball (1904)
"1 CHAPTER XXXVII THE VISIT TO THE Daughterless HOME Sole daughter of my house
and heart. —BYRON. Words are the daughters of earth, and things the sons of ..."
2. He knew he was right by Anthony Trollope (1869)
"She was not, indeed, an ambassador's daughter, but the niece of a daughterless
ambassador, and therefore almost as good as a daughter. ..."
3. Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain by John Ruskin (1884)
"She knows the day and the hour by the Tron church, at which her father.
thinking himself daughterless, will be thrust out, wistful, from his prison gate. ..."
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