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Example sentences for "first wife"

  • Landor had been acquainted with the Garrows, and with my first wife at Torquay; and the acquaintance was quickly renewed during his last years at Florence.

  • And was it your information that that was his first wife?

  • When you reached Palm Beach you met the lady who became your first wife, Dorothy Pierson?

  • Mrs. Elizabeth Hopkins, nothing is known concerning, except that she was not her husband's first wife.

  • She was the child of her father's first wife.

  • Giles Hopkins we only know was the son of his father's first wife, and "about 15.

  • I git marry at 20 and my first wife de French gal.

  • After my first wife died I married 'gain and my wife is a good woman but she's old and done lost her voice, and has to be in Terrell most the time.

  • Miss Sidney was Marse's first wife and he had six boys by her.

  • You speak of a coincidence which connects hers with that of my first wife.

  • My first wife, Mabel, died of morphine, self-administered, and fatal because of other organic disease from which she suffered.

  • You are aware of the fact that the diphtheria bacillus was known to me prior to my first wife's death, and so you trace a connection between the two cases.

  • SANTA CROCE, Ersilia di, first wife of Francesco Cenci, i.

  • Yet he married the noble lady Eleonora di Toledo, related by blood to Cosimo's first wife.

  • Sir Hector had also, by his housekeeper, Jean Urquhart, three natural children, which caused his separation from his first wife.

  • The death of Muhammad's first wife, Khadijah, in December, A.

  • Illustration: Portrait of Elizabeth Lady Herbert, first wife of Edward Lord Herbert, afterwards Marquis of Worcester.

  • It was I victualled the Tower of London, and gave five and twenty hundred pounds to the then Lieutenant, Sir John Byron, my cousin-german by my first wife’s side.

  • The only difference that impresses him between himself and his sisters is that he can remember so much more clearly than they do the house where my first wife and I used to live.

  • This story has only had occasion once to refer to the name of Challis's first wife, Marianne's half-sister.

  • To Janeken Vermeren, daughter of my first wife's sister, 20l.

  • My body to be buried in the parish church of East Malling, by my first wife.

  • I lad witnesses to show the length of time that had elapsed since my separation from my first wife, and we also raised the point as to whether the justice who married me, was really a legal justice of the peace or not.

  • My first wife had so misused me that it was always in my mind that some reparation was due me, and that I was fairly entitled to a good helpmate.

  • There was not a particle of proof that I was guilty of bigamy; no attempt was made on the part of the prosecution to produce my first wife, from whom I had separated, or, indeed, to show that there was such a woman in existence.

  • He sent for my son Henry and my first wife, and they came and corroborated my statement about the mutual agreement for separation, and told how long we had been parted.

  • Siri von Essen, Strindberg's first wife, was married to an officer, Baron Wrangel, and both the Wrangels received Strindberg kindly in their home as a friend.

  • I dreamed your first husband was married to my first wife.


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