In both cases, our compatriots discovered that their husbands (neither of them penniless) had entirely different views.
We wonder how these women attained such influence over the men of their day, their husbandsor lovers.
The result of placing them on this pedestal, and treating them as things apart, has been to make women in America poorer helpmeets to their husbands than in any other country on the face of the globe, civilized or uncivilized.
Foreigners undoubtedly make excellent husbands for their own women.
Husbands remembered what was due from their wives, and wives what was due from their husbands.
Now such is the pattern of affection which the Apostles commend to the imitation of "husbands and wives" in their conduct towards one another.
Look at only one or two of the passages in which the New Testament enjoins the reciprocal duties of husbands and wives; what sort of model it proposes for their love.
They might still be allowed to ruin each other and their husbands at play, because the money lost would circulate among ourselves.
It has been often noticed that every man looks a gentleman in khaki; and it is to be feared that many war brides have suffered a painful surprise on seeing their husbands for the first time in civilian garb.
A rough calculation gives the result that twelve million lives have been lost to the belligerent nations by the separation of husbands and wives during the war.
Have all your previoushusbands changed so quickly that you're afraid to try me?
Don't you know that even in the old people's homes they keep the men and women apart--husbands and wives included?
She was dreadful careless with her husbands and had mislaid 'em all.
But as soon as Danaus' daughters were quite certain their husbands were fast asleep, they produced their daggers and slew their mates.
You were very sarcastic upon the subject of those poor, silly women who object to their husbands being gallant toward other women, since, according to you, such gallantry is one of the laws of the polished society to which you belong.
You see what charming fellows thesehusbands are--every one of them!
Matrimony is matrimony, andhusbands are husbands, and wives will strive to have their own way—ay, and will fight to get it too.
A’ weel, every dog maun ha’ his day, an’ they may get husbands yet.
Husbands are scearce here, so oise thought, oise might as well try moi chance as the rest o’un.
Husbands and wives seldom try to attract public attention to themselves, as that man and woman are doing.
Many of the affrighted people who had taken refuge in the mountains returned to their homes at his coming, but others, husbands and fathers chiefly, remained on the hills, leaving their wives and families to fend for themselves.
Confirmed in his suspicions, but concealing them, he returned to the village with the terrified women, and on the way he made his own sinister efforts to comfort them when they mourned as if their husbands had been lost.
The choosing of husbandsand wives went on as merrily as the choosing of partners for a country-dance.
She wondered how young wives habitually dealt with this problem, when they happened to marry husbands so negligent, not to say underbred, as to cause them the awkwardness and the shame.
The Jennings singing lesson, at fifteen dollars a half-hour, was rather an expensive hypocrisy; but the women who used it as a cloak for idleness as utter as the mere yawners and bridgers and shoppers had rich husbands or fathers.
Der Garabed read from the Holy Book of the first bridal in Paradise; and again, from its later pages, of how Christian wives and husbands ought to love and cherish one another.
Even if the wives and children of the priests themselves came within a certain distance, while some particular services were going on, they were murdered on the spot by their husbands and fathers with the utmost ferocity.
On this subject Stewart observes: "We have yet met with no instance, in any rank of society, of a male with two wives, but are informed that for one woman to have two husbands is a universal habit.
According to Radiguet, the right of having more husbands than one was not general and hardly belonged to any but chieftainesses,[41] but this limitation is denied by a good authority.
All around we behold the wrecks of families, torn asunder by the intemperance of husbands and fathers, which otherwise might have been united and happy.
The concerns of a great family never can be well managed, if left wholly to hirelings; and there are many parts of these affairs in which it would be unseemly for husbands to meddle.
There is too much truth in this saying, as selections of husbands and wives are often made.
I can have as many husbands as I like, without falling into the clutches of a tyrant.
Next day her father came, condoled with her politely, assured her there was nothing to cry about; husbands were a sort of functionaries that generally went to sea at some part of their career, and no harm ever came of it.
This was followed by the whole absurd soothing process, as practised by manly husbands upon quivering and somewhat hysterical wives, and ended with a formal apology.
The widows and orphans sorrowed for husbands and fathers, and it was natural that they should sorrow for themselves.
A still sadder day was that when, the mine being put in order, the bodies were brought up from below, and the poor women came round to claim their husbands and sons.
Try it you whose home life has been a bitter disappointment; you husbands and wives who have quarreled, who have never known what peace and comfort are, try love's way.
But if in the country the husbands are inferior beings, the bachelors are no less so.
After the war our fathers had sixty widows left on the Plantation, whose husbands had died or been slain.
Parson Holly, in a memorial to the Legislature in 1783, states that most of the women in Marshpee, had lost their husbands in the war.
Females of this class care not whether their husbands or lovers work or remain idle; for they boast that they can keep them—and keep them well, too.
He is the best of husbands and the best of fathers!
I assured you how unusual it was for ladies to accompany their husbands to the office of their solicitors——" "Oh!
But when husbands are indolent and mean, when they are cruel and selfish, when they make a hell of home, why should we insist that their wives should love them still?
They have homes to defend, husbands to protect and "destroyers" to kill.
Bankers, merchants, professional men, ministers of the gospel, do not want their sons to become the husbands of chambermaids and cooks.
Yet, I must admit that there are thousands of wives who still have faith in the saving power of superstition--who still insist on attending church whilehusbands prefer the shores, the woods, or the fields.
I am opposed to a redress of grievances or the punishment of criminals by mobs and I am equally opposed to giving the "wronged" husbands and the "wronged" wives the right to kill the men and women they suspect.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "husbands" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
