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Example sentences for "poor wife"

  • Lay long in bed, talking with pleasure with my poor wife, how she used to make coal fires, and wash my foul clothes with her own hand for me, poor wretch!

  • I was at my last shifts, and my poor wife saw it.

  • Grey Moll no sooner saw what my wife was about, than springing out of the cart, she flew at my poor wife, clawed off her bonnet in a moment, and seized hold of her hair.

  • Here we staid two hours and then parted for all together, and my poor wife I shall soon want I am sure.

  • My poor wife is a very sickly woman, or we should always have done tolerably well.

  • I have spent the crown; and now if my poor wife should be taken in one of those fits again, die she must, unless God work a miracle to prevent it, for I can get no help for her.

  • I went with a lighter heart than usual, because I had left my poor wife a little better, and comfortably supplied for this day, and I now resolved more than ever to trust God for the supplies of the next.

  • Yes, that is the man who drove me out of house and home, who heaped one misery after another on me and my poor wife, so that she at last broke down and died.

  • I was placed in an exceedingly melancholy situation by the fact that my circumstances had so shaped themselves that I dared not express this important change in my feelings to any one, especially to my poor wife.

  • My new colleagues congratulated me, and Luttichau accompanied me with the politest phrases to my own door, where I fell into the arms of my poor wife, who was giddy with delight.

  • When I was in the midst of this work, however, to my great relief and to my poor wife's consternation, Schlesinger told me that M.

  • My poor wife is again dangerously ill, and as yet no sign of any favourable kind has appeared.

  • My poor wife laughed at your quiz at my bit of tenderness.

  • The address of this will show that my poor wife is no better, and that I cannot leave her.

  • It has often made me think of my poor wife till I cried.

  • I can scarcely wish it,' he resumed, 'for I trust that whenever I die I shall go to heaven, where my poor wife is gone before me.

  • There is the north tower--some of the battlements have tumbled down, and had liked one day to have knocked my poor wife (God rest her soul!

  • I went too; but as I was older than Fernand, and had just married my poor wife, I was only sent to the coast.

  • My poor wife is well nigh crushed by the blow.

  • But I must get back to my poor wife as fast as I can, and I cannot face any more publicity than that which it would be cowardly to shirk just now.

  • How could I bear the sight of him from whom such great wrong hath happed to me, poor wife?

  • He met his death in battle; for him must I ever weep, which giveth me, poor wife, dire woe.

  • This morning up, with mighty kind words between my poor wife and I; and so to White Hall by water, W.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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