The original watercolor was purchased from Audubon's destitute widow by The New York History Society where it remains to this day.
If he was not very unlike everybody else who lives and works here, he left a very destitute widow when he died.
In an attempt to do good to Lalitha (Raadhika), a destitute young widow with a 5-year old son, the simpleton Sivayya marries her during an auspicious village festival.
In the market, small boys labor as blacksmiths, and destitute widows beg.
It represents a small percentage of the 431 original Audubon watercolors that the museum purchased in 1863 from the artist's destitute widow for $4,000.
The Borshays were never told about the substitution nor that their new daughter had been sent to the orphanage by her mother, a destitute widow, who was hoping for a better life for this one of her five children.
Presumably she must take out a loan on longer terms to pay off the first one-assuming anyone would loan money to a destitute and unemployed widow.
In 1836, Coillard's father died, leaving behind a nearly destitute widow.
Because no provision was made for destitute widows, their lot was also in question.
I am a destitute widow with two daughters, so now we are accounted no better than slaves, and my girls will never have decent husbands of the Cloud People.