Beauty and cleverness won't make a good wife," said Amelia, who was the wise one of the family.
It would be difficult, perhaps, to say anything else in her favour; and yet Lord Fawn was quite content to marry her, not having seen any reason why she should not make a good wife!
My dear," she said, "I hope you will make him a good wife.
He didn't see why this woman he was about to marry should not be a good wife to him!
She's been a good wifeto me, always at my shoulder in the pinch.
And in the years which followed she was a good wife, sharing her husband's hardships and cooking his food.
Yes, she's been a good wifeto me, better'n that other one.
But whither goest thou with thy goose-quill a-flying, good wife?
Right in the midst, good wife, is where God standeth; and few men win there.
Good wife, no man's eyes are blinder than his which casts the dust into his own.
Think of me, my child, who lived happily with my good wife a twenty years, and think that you are better off maybe than I.
And I dare swear she will be a good wife to the man who gets her.
Even if he marry, and get a good wife, sorrows and blessings are mingled in his lot; while if his wife be bad, ills so deep are his "as all the balms of medicine cannot cure.
Use your endeavor, good wife, to do those things which are acceptable to the gods and are appointed by the law for you to do.
Male choruses sing of the unbounded happiness which is gained in the possession of a good wife; female choruses sing of entrancing love, of the blessings of a happy married life, while faithlessness and sinful passion are condemned.
This is true, good wife; but it is the part of a sober husband and virtuous wife not only to preserve the fortune they are possessed of, but to contribute equally to improve it.
It was for just such work as that my good wife and I came from our far-away home to live in this land.
When he was gone, my good wife and I sat down, and we said, "Here is lesson number two.
I pondered over his words and his experience, and talked about them with my good wife, and we decided to go.
As I believe in the dear Jesus, I will do my best to be a good wife to you.
Urmand, I know I should be wicked to leave him, and I would do my best to live with him and make him a good wife.
She would, he was sure, be a good wife, and the love would probably come in time.
We have given the views of the poet Burns as to the qualities necessary in a good wife.
Burns the poet, in speaking of the qualities of a good wife, divided them into ten parts.
I suppose a good wife ought to invent excuses for her husband--ought to throw herself into the breach; is n't that what they call it?
I felt that she would make a good wife, and I wished that I could have torn from my bosom the remembrance of Janet, and have substituted the form of Bessy in her place.
Yet I could not help recalling to mind the words of Bramble, "Observe how she performs those duties which fall to her lot; if she is a good daughter she will make a good wife.
I want to be a good wife and I will do all I can to make him a good man.
I want to give you my life, and I want by marrying to glorify and serve you, as well as to take care of mother and Charlien and be a good wife.
Mr. Nation in his petition for divorce said that up to this year I had been a good wife.
I've done better by you than I agreed to, because you've been a good wife to me.
I was to be a good wife, and we weren't to have any words.
Our understanding was that I should be a good wife, and you were to make my family comfortable according to my views.
She's been a good wife, but she don't care as I do for success and money.
There will be very little merit in making a good wife to such a man as Mr. Weston.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "good wife" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
