One middle-aged spinster lady in Nebraska.

Would she be like the Misses Cardings, the three spinster ladies who kept the hat shop beyond the tobacconist's?

A lean, angular spinster lady, her unusual hats and the black cotton umbrella she carries are her trademark.

A spinster lady lived there.

At the time, Margaret was described as having been a "spinster lady of excellent breeding and lively intellect".

We both know, too, that you're no longer quite the prim spinster lady you've been pretending to be.

Or spinster ladies in chilly London flats, living on tea, biscuits and broken dreams.

(Which is one of the reasons why spinster ladies prefer felines to babies.)

Malcolm said quietly, "I'm told the spinster lady who owned it had a fit of the vapors the first time the Britannia Gate opened in her garden.

I'm a respectable spinster lady who-" she broke off and began to brake.