Australian to have as many wives as possible, as they work and hunt for him, and "he also obtains great influence in the tribe by lending them his Piraurus occasionally, and receiving presents from the young men.
The men took asmany wives as they pleased, and if one of them remonstrated against a new rival, she received a sound thrashing.
A man procures as many wives as possible, partly because they labor for him and also because soon after one wife becomes with child she leaves him for two or three years until her baby is weaned.
Polygamy is common; every man being entitled to asmany wives as he can get and maintain.
The males have as many wives as they are able to purchase;' adultery committed by a woman is punished with death.
A man might take as many wives as he could buy and support, and all lived together without jealousy; but practically few, and those among the rich and powerful, indulged in the luxury of more than one wife.
The Nootka may have as many wives as he can buy, but as prices are high, polygamy is practically restricted to the chiefs, who are careful not to form alliances with families beneath them in rank.
A man may have as many wives as he can buy, but few men have large families.
All the other tribes can have as many wives as they are able to keep.
Of course," he continued, "a new member coming into the Church might think at first he could get along without so many wives.
You wouldn't want me to have as many wives as those old codgers down there below, would you?
I don't care very much for this having so many wives.
In fact, you shall find many men who have each more than thirty sons who form an armed retinue to their father, and this through the fact of his having so many wives.
The Buraets, who seem to retain the old Mongol customs in great completeness, are polygamists, and have as many wives as they choose.
They have more children than other people, because they have so many wives.
They will marry as many wives as they can pay for, often leaving their homes in search of means whereby they may accumulate wealth enough to buy another wife.
In earlier days every man might marry as many wives as he could take care of, and the length of the wifehood was solely in the husband's hand.
The man, however, may marry as often as he pleases and as many wives as may be to his liking and convenience.
Every man could marry as many wives as he pleased, and his female slaves were all, by law, entirely at his disposal to be made concubines.
He may have asmany wives as he wishes, and another is easily found.
Some say it is forbidden in the Koran, by the verse which allows only as many wives as a man can treat with equity; as they say this is an impossibility, if a man has more than one consort, to treat them alike.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "many wives" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
