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Example sentences for "wife and"

  • If I die, it will be an endowment for the survivors, at least for my wife and Lloyd; and my mother, who might prefer to go home, has her own.

  • My wife and I do our utmost to live with you in peace and harmony; we help the peasants as we can.

  • He fixed his indignant eyes on Rodion and went on: "My wife and I behaved to you as human beings, as to our equals, and you?

  • I stayed but two months with my wife and family, for my insatiable desire of seeing foreign countries, would suffer me to continue no longer.

  • But I thought it more consistent with prudence and justice to pass the remainder of my days with my wife and family.

  • The last of these voyages not proving very fortunate, I grew weary of the sea, and intended to stay at home with my wife and family.

  • I went straight to Redriff, where I arrived the same day at two in the afternoon, and found my wife and family in good health.

  • A newspaper goes into the family, and is read by wife and children, as well as the head of the house; hence hundreds and thousands of people may read your advertisement, while you are attending to your routine business.

  • I wouldn't for the world be under such an obligation to Touchett as he has been to--to my wife and me.

  • My wife and I like everything that's really new--not the mere pretence of it.

  • Then my wife and I do so many things together.

  • Thou wilt never be settled in thy mind till thou art rid of that burden, nor canst thou enjoy the blessings of wife and child as long as that burden lies so heavy upon thee.

  • We do not hear much of Rutherford's wife and children, and that, no doubt, for the sufficient reason that he gives us in his so open-minded letter.

  • There can be nobody here to-night so stark stupid as to suppose that the pilgrim had run away from home and left his wife and children to the work- house.

  • It takes a whole day among bad roads and wet bogs to visit a shepherd's wife and children, and two or three bothies and pauper's hovels on the way home.

  • John Rolfe died in Virginia in 1622, leaving a wife and children.

  • My wife and I were sitting in the orchestra stalls of the Metropolitan.

  • That morning my wife and I breakfasted upon our first hippo, an animal that was destined to be our general food throughout our journey among the Abyssinian tributaries of the Nile.

  • There were two superb hygeens duly equipped for my wife and myself: they were snow-white, without speck or blemish, and as clean and silk-like as good grooming could accomplish.

  • Fortunately, both my wife and I were well provided with the best English saddles, bridles, &c.

  • Both my wife and I had suffered from a short attack of fever brought on by the prostrating effect of the simoom, which at this season (June) was at its height.

  • He thought me the happiest of men when I told him I was going to pass the night honourably with my wife and daughter; and he was right, for I was so at that moment.

  • That is not enough, and although a girl can be a wife and a mother without knowing how to trace one letter, it is generally admitted that a young girl ought to be able to write.

  • The two lives were those of my wife and myself; my wife would be Manon Baletti, and when I told her my plans she would have thought them delightful if I had begun by marrying her.

  • He went out and I dined with my wife and daughter in the best of spirits.

  • He take Missa Whela he house, make him sit down with he wife and chil'en.

  • My wife and I lodged with a Chinaman some half a mile away; and thither Captain Reid and a native boy escorted us by torch-light.

  • My wife and I were returning from the sea-side of the island, when we spied one coming to meet us at a very quick, disordered pace, between a walk and a run.

  • My wife and I were both so fond of country life and country pursuits that month after month passed by at our little farm in a succession of delightful days.

  • My wife and I now agreed that it was very foolish in us to come so far without making more particular inquiries.

  • I helped Euphemia out, left the horse standing by the door, and ran to the dog, followed by my wife and Pomona.

  • My wife and I join in affectionate remembrances and greetings to yourself and your aunt, and in the sincere tender of our sympathies.

  • My wife and I think of going to Boston May 7th to see Anna Dickinson's debut on the 8th.

  • I fled to my wife and child, repeating the while to myself half wonderingly, "Wife and child?

  • I not, then, a life to lose, A wife and child at home as well as he?

  • Had you no thought Of wife and children, then?

  • I did not think Again to see the gladsome light of day, Nor the dear faces of my wife and boys, And eyed disconsolate the waste of waters.

  • Protect my wife and children," were the words of Winkelried, as he rushed to death.

  • Dick, quickening Smart a little, and jogging on just behind the farmer and farmer's wife and man.


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