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Example sentences for "wife was"

  • By water in the dark home, and so to my Lady Batten's where my wife was, and there we sat and eat and drank till very late, and so home to bed.

  • The one he had first taken to wife was to be the permitted wife, and no other.

  • Curricles were all the vogue at that time; therefore a dashing young man without a curricle was nothing; and as my wife was a great driver, as well as a good horsewoman, a curricle was almost indispensable.

  • To have a wife was my determination, and, now the day was fixed, I returned to my father's house, and entered into his business again with all my usual zeal and assiduity.

  • My wife was of a cheerful disposition, and fond of company, in which I most cordially participated, and consequently we were seldom without plenty of visitors.

  • But I now sincerely repented of my folly and thoughtlessness, for my wife was inconsolable.

  • My wife was so exhausted with the long march, rendered doubly fatiguing by the dew that had added additional weight to her clothes, that she could hardly ascend the hill we had just commenced.

  • Not only were the animals sick, but my wife was laid up with a violent attack of gastric fever, and I was also suffering from daily attacks of ague.

  • A report had reached them that my wife was dead, and that I had died a few days later.

  • But Samson's wife was given to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.

  • And the name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom her mother bare to Levi in Egypt: and she bare unto Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.

  • Some folks has just moved over to the Ridge and the postmaster's wife was a-showin' me some papers they get, every week.

  • My wife was standing on the balcony, and welcomed us cheerily.

  • And when I realized that my wife was a stranger to the true nature of music, it pained me for a moment.

  • For the first time, the thought of meeting my wife was painful to me.

  • I stayed in his room at the hotel all the forenoon, listening to his plans; then I went back where my wife was stopping.

  • The work assigned me was that of butler at headquarters, and my wife was cook.

  • They at once went to the barn where my wife was tied to the joist, and Boss and the madam beat her by turns.

  • My wife was a Christian, and had learned to know the worth of prayer, so would always speak consolingly.

  • As my wife was so timid, I said as little as possible to her.

  • My wife was in a hair-dressing parlor in Cleveland; the girl who was doing what ever she was doing to her, discovered that she was the Miss Dayne at Keith's Theater.

  • My wife was drinking a glass of iced tea; he kept glancing at it and finally he said, "Do you know, I can understand anybody drinking that stuff at home; or if somebody had given it to you.

  • He cites all the arguments in favour of the salt statue at Usdum as the identical one into which Lot's wife was changed, adds some of his own, and presents her as "a type of doubt and heresy.

  • Not that my wife was unworthy of anybody's favour; but her many forced absences, and the constant difficulty of intercourse with her, raised my aunt's liking for a while to a sort of passion.

  • Washington's wife was a pretty woman, very good-natured and pleasant, and with a good fortune?

  • I known yesterday that my wife was travelling, I should have been less able for the work I had before me.

  • For the summer months we were to be located in the higher hills, and my wife was anxious to see the house which I had purchased from my predecessor, General Keyes, at Natiagali.

  • My wife was placed by her side on the sofa, and carried on a long conversation with her through one of the ladies who spoke Hindustani and acted as Interpreter.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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