Wives

Examples

• Better be happy old maids than unhappy wives, or unmaidenly girls, running about to find husbands, said Mrs. March decidedly. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The English men of fashion in Paris courted her, too, to the disgust of the ladies their wives, who could not bear the parvenue. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I am sure we are constantly hearing, ma'am, till it becomes quite nauseous, concerning their wives and families,' said Bitzer. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Plenty of them have other wives. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The Emperor of Morocco don't know how many wives he has, but thinks he has five hundred. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I would be glad to talk about wives. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Mother, you are better to me than ten wives yet. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Single men have, no doubt, a right to curse themselves as much as they please; but men with wives involve two in the doom they pray down. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• One of his wives was a Jewess, Safiyya, whom he had married on the evening of the battle in which her husband had been captured and executed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Take this as a warning from men that are starving, and have starving wives and children to go home to when they have done this deed. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Men and women, husbands and wives, quarrel horribly, Shirley. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• King Henry VIII of England, he of the many wives, had a match-lock arquebus of this type dated 1537. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Quite a number of the American representatives brought their wives. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Yes, I think myself it is an encouragement to crime if such men are to be taken care of and waited on by good wives, said Mrs. Tom Toller. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• We have actually pretended that the work of extracting a living from nature could be done most successfully by short-sighted money-makers encouraged by their money-spending wives. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Your sympathy, Wives of England, for Madame Fosco! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• They are called wives, though I believe the Koran only allows four genuine wives--the rest are concubines. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I know several women, who have made most excellent wives after a slip or two, which I assure you madam often serves to fortify our virtue afterwards. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• You suppose the wives of our guardians to have a fine easy time of it when they are having children. Plato. The Republic.
• Such is the scheme, Glaucon, according to which the guardians of our State are to have their wives and families in common. Plato. The Republic.
• I, for my part, object to the discussion of Human Nature, because that is the nature of rectors' wives. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The first wave having been passed, we proceed to the second--community of wives and children. Plato. The Republic.
• I bought wholesale and at a low price, and permitted the wives of the engineers and trainmen to have the benefit of the discount. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Colonel Dent and Mr. Eshton argue on politics; their wives listen. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The travellers were politely offered temporary wives. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Men of his age married wives of her age every day--and experience had shown those marriages to be often the happiest ones. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Spanish girls make wonderful wives. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• There was a billiard-room at the Green Dragon, which some anxious mothers and wives regarded as the chief temptation in Middlemarch. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I've often wondered to see men that could call their wives and children _their own_ fretting and worrying about anything else. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• But for Harriet's sake, or rather for my own, and as there are no husbands and wives in the case _at_ _present_, I will break my resolution now. Jane Austen. Emma.

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