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Example sentences for "second wife"

  • Edward Dotey married Faith Clark, probably as second wife, and had nine children, some of whom moved to New Jersey, Long Island, and elsewhere.

  • Stephen Hopkins went out with his second wife, Elizabeth, and Giles and Constance, children by a first wife.

  • He married a second wife, and a third, Christian Penn, before 1627.

  • John Bonville son of Thomas, married first Johanna Wibbery daughter of his father's second wife, by her first husband John Wibbery.

  • Mamma Macallan," he said, "what is the Christian name of your son's second wife?

  • I am your old friend, Mrs. Macallan; and I have brought Eustace Macallan's second wife to see you.

  • The Landgrave Philip of Hesse, however, referred directly to the proposal of bigamy made to the King of England, when he requested Luther’s consent to his own project of taking a second wife.

  • They were unaware that Margaret von Sale had already been chosen as a second wife, that Philip had secured the consent of his wife Christina, and that the way for a settlement with the bride’s mother had already been paved.

  • After carrying on a disgraceful liaison with his father's second wife, he married Louise de Mareuil, through whom he got a considerable dowry.

  • At a sale of her effects, Aristide Saccard bought a diamond necklace and aigrette for his second wife.

  • I have been married to my second wife thirty-four years last April.

  • My second wife owned a house and garden at Wheatley half a mile or so from town.

  • They is by my second wife and my first wife live with my son, down close to Star City.

  • Thou canst not be a second wife, the first still living.

  • I'm leading lady of the 'Second Wife' company, you know.

  • He thus was induced to make peace, giving his young sister Mary as second wife to Louis; but that king over-exerted himself at the banquets, and died six weeks after the marriage, in 1515.

  • A second wife is allowed when the first proves to be childless, but polyandry is quite unknown.

  • Infant betrothals would seem to be absolutely unknown, all marriages being restricted to adults, as a rule monogamous, though a second wife may be taken when the first proves childless.

  • Monogamy is the rule among Deoris and Barahis; but a second wife is allowed where the first proves childless.

  • She was a proud, fashionable woman, who saw nothing attractive in the desolate old house, and who had conceived an idea that her brother's second wife was a sort of nobody whom he had picked up among the New England hills.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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