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Example sentences for "first husband"

  • I had had such bad luck with my first husband, I hated the thoughts of it.

  • The writer says he was particularly acquainted with this lady's first husband, the brewer, and with his father, and also with his bad circumstances, and knows that first part of the story to be truth.

  • They call themselves gentlemen, I warrant you; but, as my first husband used to say, they should remember it is we that pay them.

  • And she runs after her lovers and shall not overtake, and she seeks them and shall not find; then she saith: I will go and return to my first husband, for it was better with me then than now.

  • I will go and return to my first husband," and all which follows be considered as only a kind of parenthesis.

  • I will go and return to my first husband, for then was it better with me than now," is the same who said in ver.

  • After my first husband died, I cooked and went on for them white folks.

  • And he took mighty good care of my children, them by my first husband as well as his own.

  • I was married to my first husband a number of years.

  • Marquis de Firmin-Latour came to consult me on the subject of his wife's first husband, until the hour when he tried to fasten an abominable crime upon me.

  • He had been deceived in his daughter's first husband; some of the money which he had given her had gone to pay the gambling debts of an unscrupulous spendthrift.

  • My stepsister's first husband, Shadrach van Guelder, shot at baboons once, and was so frightened afterwards that he was afraid to be alone in the dark.

  • He was no fool, my stepsister's first husband, and since a wild and belly-quaking tale was the only one that offered, he was not ready to cast it aside till a better one were found.

  • If they talked about the death of my first husband; you can judge what they said about that of my second.

  • People had commented on the singular death of my first husband, and suitors had already begun to reflect before declaring themselves.

  • Let me see, she's his wife's first husband's first cousin's aunt once removed.

  • And then she reminds him of things that happened to his wife's first husband, as if he were the one, you know.

  • You see Mrs. Farningham's first husband's people are here from America in shoals.

  • Don't think that I didn't love my first husband; I adored him and I adore his memory; but the loneliness and the sudden magic of this man.

  • But it isn't suggested that your wife killed her first husband, Signor Doria; and it isn't suggested that my friend here killed his brother.

  • He confessed to me that Jenny puzzled him and it seemed strange to Albert that she had forgotten her first husband so easily.

  • But from the time that I met and spoke with Albert's niece I began to reflect upon that statement, and my speedy conviction was this: that a great deal more concerning Jenny's first husband demanded to be known.

  • And now that George has relented about my first husband.

  • We've just heard that my first husband is still alive.

  • I used to call my first husband--I mean my only husband--Jacko.

  • My first husband hasn't come to life again, has he?


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    first arrival; first attack; first came; first cause; first concert; first cousins; first editions; first expedition; first governor; first landing; first lesson; first marriage; first page; first performed; first person; first principles; first publication; first refused; first section; first sight; first supposed; first thought; first visit; first voyage; first week; first wife