Mr. Watkins Tottle was a rather uncommon compound of strong uxorious inclinations, and an unparalleled degree of anti-connubial timidity.
The spreading branches of uxorious vines, Clasp round each other with encircling twines.
Of course, we keep to ourselves the woman we prefer; but we have to beware of an uxorious preference, or we are likely to resemble the Irishman with his wolf, and dance imprisoned in the hug of our captive.
At dinner she had tales of uxorious men, of men who married mistresses, of the fearful incubus the vulgar family of a woman of the inferior classes ever must be; and her animadversions were strong in the matter of gew-gaw modern furniture.
How would'st thou insult, When I must live uxorious to thy will 945 In perfect thraldom!
The duchess made a solemn vow to that effect, but the uxoriousfeelings of the duke were not yet satisfied.
They write down in red ink on the back of the Peray, or wooden seat on which the bride is to sit, the names of twenty-one uxorious husbands, and go round the bride seven times.
The object of these instructions is to thwart the intention of his mother-in-law that he may become a uxorious husband, a wish in which his mother does not share at all, because it is calculated to diminish his regard for her.
The husband is tempted to infidelity by a queen, herself spoilt by the flatteries of an uxorious husband; and the wife by a couple of courtiers, who have all the vices of Fletcher's worst heroes without any of their attractions.
He told himself grimly that there would be a fantastic delight in thisuxorious enjoyment of a wife whose heart was given to another man, which fell to the lot of few.
There never were such uxorious chaps in this world, I do believe.
He can still sit and stare at her with a startlingly uxorious eye.
But I found small consolation in that over-uxorious essay, feeling as I did that I knew life quite as well as any amorous studio-rat who ever made copy out of his mottled past.
Page, on the contrary, appears to be somewhat uxorious in his disposition; and we have pretty plain indications of the effect of the characters of the husbands on the different degrees of fidelity in their wives.
But Henry VIII's power is most fatal to those whom he loves: he is cruel and remorseless to pamper his luxurious appetites: bloody and voluptuous; an amorous murderer; an uxorious debauchee.
That uxorious king, whose heart, though large, Beguiled by fair idolatresses, fell To idols foul.
Yet, however guilty may have been the uxorious apostasies of Ahab, he can hardly be held to be responsible for the marriage itself.
She acquired from the first a paramount sway over the weak and uxorious mind of her husband.
Janet and I fancied she must have come with the intention to act uxorious husband and Irish wife for the distinct purpose of diverting the squire's wrath from me, for he greatly delighted in the sight of merry wedded pairs.
I have no wish to see the uxorious object, though you praise him.
Now that it was mine--mine, at last--I grew uxorious in its contemplation.
Of their consideration and regard I was equally uxorious as I was of the affections of my wife.
