half-widowed

Updated: May 29, 2025

And Gretel, shivering with cold, buried her face in her arms and cried as if her heart would break. The poor child had been tasked beyond her strength during the past four days. Through all, she had been her mother's willing little handmaiden, soothing, helping, and cheering the half-widowed woman by day and watching and praying beside her all the long night.

Mary Mapes Dodge - Hans Brinker; or, the Silver Skates