The strong preference on boys over girls will bring about a serious problem: millions of wifeless men.

Perhaps the fact that his wife had also left him wifeless had something to do with it.

'Do you know anything more about him, other than that he's wifeless?'

Nevertheless, I will be one of those to be kind to the wifeless men."

Seeing youforelore and wifeless, I have turned the matter over in my mind day and night.

A widower he was, many years wifeless, and without any children, leastways none by the marriage.

There I can go, you understand, to savour the rare pleasure of imagining myself wifeless.'

The relentless whine of the refrigerator as it went on making ice in a wifeless, childless world.

Even if I had not been widowed, I would have been wifeless on this day.

I was wifeless, jobless, and if Lawrence Metcalf had his way, soon to be penniless.

Also wifeless and hung over.

Tony Glorioso, at 73 wifeless and childless, pressed his nose to the glass overlooking the paddock.

But Adrian is alone, wifeless, childless, unoccupied.

That would stop the Rangers of Texas True from saying they were nothing but a bunch of wifeless drifters causing trouble.

Dave is fenceless, wifeless, kidless, and dogless.

I suppose if he had been wifeless you would have had me married off to him as soon as I was out of mourning!'

"The wifeless, childless Pavel Chekov is the world expert on what children do and don't do, eh?"

Loveless, landless, wifeless.

"I woke you up," Fred Marshall says, and Jack knows at once that this man has been up all night, sitting in his wifeless, sonless home.

For the feuding folk of old Concorde, another breadless stint begins as Aimable, the baker, retreats into wifeless melancholy.

A great change has come over the dark wainscoted parlour since we saw it in Godfrey's bachelor days, and under the wifeless reign of the old Squire.

He merely selected from among the highest of the high princes of Tirzom Jum the wealthiest, best-looking, and most accomplished specimen, luckily wifeless.

Upon any mention of her and Julia, he would say: aith ophelon agamos t'emeni agonos t'apolesthai meaning "Would I were wifeless, or had childless died!"

This old bachelor, wifeless and childless, spent his pay in drink and gambled away at ecarte whatever money his cognac and absinthe left in his pocket.

Abu Ferras holds an important position in the court of Chairman Arafat - custodian of the honey, the nonsmoking, nondrinking and wifeless Arafat's only apparent indulgence.