The head coachman's wifewho was up with a sick child heard you get off and watched your flight over the bay in this direction.
The wife of William East, an English paper-maker, accidentally let a blue bag fall into one of the vats of pulp.
Nur-Jahan, the favorite wife of the Mogul Jahan-Ghur, among her other luxuries, had a small canal of rose water.
Two days after arriving there he stated to Drury that he had had a vision of his wife walking through his room, with her hair hanging over her shoulders, and a dead child in her arms.
Others affirm that Elizabeth, wife of Charles Robert, king of Hungary, who died in 1380, was the inventor.
The hind had as lief see his wife on the bier, As that Candlemas-day should be pleasant and clear.
The wife of the consul of Cologne, Retchmuth, apparently died of the plague, in 1571.
The person who told me of this means of living happily could not forbear shedding tears, for the loss of a kingfisher's skin had caused him to lose both his wife and his goods.
We are told by Plutarch that a Spartan lady paid a visit to Berenice, the wife of Dejotarus, and that the one smelled so much of sweet ointment and the other of butter that neither of them could endure the other.
The wife of the false Demetrius, according to popular poetry, escaped from Moscow in the guise of a magpie.
No doubt this proverb originated from a passage in Suetonius, which says that "the name of Pompeia, the wife of Julius Caesar, having been mixed up with an accusation against P.
I mean topurvey me a wife after the fashion of the children of Benjamin.
The law declares specifically that "the husband is the head of the family and the wife is subject to him.
If the husband abandon the wife and acquire a homestead elsewhere, she has a right only in that.
Where the wife has separate real estate she may sell, mortgage or bequeath it as if she were "sole.
If the deceased leave wife or husband and only one child, or the lawful issue of one, the separate estate is divided in equal shares.
If the wife permit the husband to employ the income or profits of her estate in the maintenance of the family, he will not be liable to her therefor.
The wife may sue for separate maintenance without divorce.
The separate property of the wife is divided into dotal and extradotal.
Community property includes all which is accumulated by the joint labors of husband and wifeafter marriage.
A married woman may sue and be sued and make contracts in regard to her separate property, but in torts of a personal nature she must be sued jointly with her husband, although the wife may defend in her own right.
A similar act on the part of the husband prior to the marriage does not entitle the wife to a divorce.
This law was repealed by the Legislature of 1901, and it was made impossible for either husband or wife to convey real property without the signature of the other.
Henderson, wife of the former Senator from Missouri.
The ballot would, therefore, be of no assistance to the wife in such case, nor could it heal family strifes or dissensions.
The man whose wife is a clinging vine is apt to be like the oaks in the forest that are found wrapped in vines--dead at the top.
In 1765, the wife of a surgeon found near St. Yrieix a peculiarly soft earth of great whiteness.
It will be remembered that when Lyrnessus was taken by the Greeks and the spoils divided, Chryseis, the wife of the king of the captured place, and daughter of Chryses, one of the priests of Apollo, fell to the share of Agamemnon.
Up to 1530 it steadily improved, and in that year the wife of the reigning Duke of Urbino, who had succeeded the Sforza lords of Pesaro, erected a palace near Pesaro.
They had been brought in small boxes, and on these sat the Chinese merchant and frequently his wife and children.
This queen was the sister and wife of King Thotmes III, and for a part of his reign was co-regent.
From the train one saw the rice farmer and his wife and children working in the paddy fields as long as they could see.
This temple of Luxor was originally built by Amenophis III of the eighteenth dynasty in honor of Ammon, the greatest of Egyptian gods, his wife and their son, the moon-god Khons.
General Nogi, who recently committed suicide with his wife on the day of the funeral of the late Emperor, had two sons dash to this certain death on the bloodstained hill before Port Arthur.
He saw his wife making her way towards him through the waltzing couples.
But she never weakened in her religion and was a good wife to him.
His wifeput him to bed while Mr. Power sat downstairs in the kitchen asking the children where they went to school and what book they were in.
Gabriel heard his wife answer yes and saw her come down towards them.
One night he went for his wife with the cleaver and she had to sleep a neighbour's house.
Often he had wanted her to go and live with them;-but she would have felt herself in the way (though Joe's wife was ever so nice with her) and she had become accustomed to the life of the laundry.
Gabriel's wife served out spoonfuls of the pudding and passed the plates down the table.
The Minister's wife made them close the big windows and that drowned a good deal of the noise, and I couldn't see the dark creepy shadows of the palms outside and felt less uncomfortable.
The Minister's wife gave us some dinner and tried to be jolly, but I couldn't be, and couldn't eat anything.
I whispered to the Angel, 'I should if I was letting my wife go away like this.
He'd brought some letters from our Minister at Santa Cruz, and it turned out that it was the President's wife who had died.
There were only three ladies there now, the Minister's wife and her two daughters, and they did their very best to cheer us up.
The young wife watched anxiously while her husband walked up and down the stream border and examined the fruit-trees.
The Indian picked up the gun and fingered it; his wife smiled.
After that, when the man who had been a coyote and his wife visited the campoodie, they turned out of the stony wash before they reached the wickiup, and came in to the camp by another trail.
He was not now afraid of anything except that his wife might get to know that he had once been a coyote.
About the time the white clematis had come back to hide the ruin of the brown birches, a young man came and camped with his wife and child in the meadow.
He gone, I home, and there my wife made an end to me of Sir K.
Having only heard this from Mrs. Michell, I away again home, and there to supper and to bed, my wife exceeding ill in her face with the tooth ake, and now her face has become mightily swelled that I am mightily troubled for it.
Thence to the 'Change, where I stayed very little, and so home to dinner, and there find my wife mightily out of order with her teeth.
Pen, and there to the office, where pretty late doing business, my wife having been abroad all day with Mrs. Turner buying of one thing or other.
I away home to dinner alone with wifeand girle, and so to the office, where mighty busy to my great content late, and then home to supper, talk with my wife, and to bed.
If this happens, tell my wife the usual things and deliver to her a letter you will find among my papers.
You made a romantic marriage and your wife died in childbirth.
Last night my wifeand I went down to the market and we bought pork-chops.
And how can friend-wife count upon her evenings with us at the movies?
It is the only way that they could see for bettering their actual conditions of labor--for getting in that occasional fishing-trip or the journey with the wifeover the hills in the long-distance jitney.
He bore obvious witness to his mother's blood upon his mulatto's face; but this mother was the wife of a groom, and it was certain that in the court of Urbino she had not been chary of her favours.
Sampiero now brought his wife from Aix to Marseilles, preserving the most absolute silence on the way, and there, on entering his house, he killed her with his own hand.
Then he called to him the captain of the oarsmen, who was his friend, and unfolded to him all the story of his love and sorrow, and said that he must go that night and see his wife once more, if even he should have to break her tomb.
We were only four persons; mywife and a friend should go in one, myself and my little girl in the other.
On thy return, my son,' he said, 'we will bethink us of a wife for thee.
Therefore Gerardo, leaving his wife to the captain's mother, rowed back to the galley and prepared to meet his father.
Goldoni once carried his wife upon his back across two rivers in their flight from the Spanish to the Austrian camp at Rimini, laughing and groaning, and perceiving the humour of his situation all the time.
Her mother was a Greek; and she was a girl of such exquisite beauty, that, in spite of her low origin, she became the wife of the noble Ermes Visconti in her sixteenth year.
A woeful man was Gerardo, hearing suddenly this news, and knowing what his dear wife must have suffered ere she died.
My own gondolier, Francesco, came with his wife and two children.
Herr Buol sits with his wife at the head of his long table.
Footnote 3217: Depositions of Marguerite Galzeng, wife of Guibal a miller, Pierre Canac and others.
Burnet announces that she is his wife and that the child in her arms is the fruit of their affection.
The woman of the people thinks she cannot do too much to lower the grocer's wife to her own level.
But I have no intention that your bitch of a wife goes with you to the Assembly; we don't want that whore.
About midnight the guard is overcome, he is carried off, and then killed in spite of the entreaties of his wife and son.
They dealt him two blows with their sabers, then put a bag over his head, kicked him in the face, tormented him, and almost smothered his wife and two women servants, to make him give up his money.
I say, I am the father of a family--I have a wife and five children that I mean to leave here for the section to look after, while I go and fight the enemy.
It welcomes with rounds of applause a married priest who introduces his wife to the Assembly.
Roland is an administrative puppet and would-be orator, whose wifepulls the strings.
Compliments are made to the Vicar of Sainte-Marguerite and his wife is given a seat in the Assembly and who, introducing "his new family," thunders against clerical celibacy.
Of the imperative necessity of continuing the fire insurance he had always carried upon the home and its contents, lest a few hours wipe out what it had required years to gather together, and his wife and children be left homeless.
He had always carried one, and since his death his wife had been careful to continue it.
His wife and children, all had been consigned to the tomb the day before, and he himself now lay writhing with the fell disease.
But neither the aged mother nor the deserted wife found the consolation they desired in his prodigal gifts.
She's probably stopping with the German missionary's wife and will be back to-morrow.
He wanted to know where his son was, and so he called aloud for the beautiful white wife (putih bini).
And it was immensely gratifying to him to think that Everard was a kindly disposed white man and did not dine with a war-club by his side--as old chief Mackeroo did when the Rajah sought his wife for a convert.
Possibly the memory of his dead wife impelled the weak ex-sailor to take so many extra drops, for he was known to sit for hours like a man in a trance when folk sang certain old songs.
The men even continued to cheer until Cleander's wife and Marcia had entered their gilded carriages and been driven off in the wake of the Imperial cortege.
Ofatulena, thewife of my villa-farm bailiff, devised them and prepared them.
It was as if we were married, had been man and wife for long past.
Colgius put Agathemer next him, then me; beyond me sat Ramnius and his wife and then Uttius and his.
Of course, while my wife was alive and I hoped for an old age with her, I had a dream of investing my savings in a house in some out-of-the-way town and in an estate near it and living at ease on the proceeds of my robberies.
I found Ofatulena, wife of the Villa-farm bailiff, in violent altercation with my head-cook.
We were a party of eight, Colgius, his wife Posilla, and two teamsters or drovers named Ramnius and Uttius, who conveyed goods or convoyed cattle between Ostia and the markets of Rome.
A pretty wife and a million of florins do not fall to a man's lot twice in his life.
The wifemust follow her husband--a princess must reign in her dominions.
Whilst his wife conversed in a low voice with the young and fascinating aide-de-camp, the pitiless prime minister held his arm tight, and explained at great length his views with respect to the famous commercial treaty.
Recently married, the meagre diplomatist had not dared to leave his wife at Saxe-Tolpelhausen, for fear of accidents; he would not lose sight of her, and had brought her to Karlstadt in the arrogant belief that danger vanished in his presence.
You know very well that my wife does what she likes with me.
He had asked permission to present his wife at the same time as his credentials, and that favour had been granted him.
His wife regarded him with a mixture of affection and contempt.
His wife had, meanwhile, got out a little shabby portfolio in black leather, and was turning over the papers with impatience; now and then she looked up to see whether this late young man had finished his breakfast.
Meantime some one "connected with the Press" got to hear of a soi-disant Lord Davenant who was often to be seen with his wife in boxes at theatres and other places of resort.
His wife had instructed him to assume this attitude.
He leaned forward clutching the arm of his chair, looking to his wife as if for help and guidance at this most difficult crisis.
It was not long after this that Crittenton Madeira, who was still a slight man, with a young wife and a pretty baby out at the brick house, began to be named "our esteemed fellow townsman" by the Canaan Call.
It is at his suggestion that your wifemakes this pernicious demand.
The number of our pigs, goats, and poultry had greatly increased since we had last visited our colony; and some of these, two fine broods of chickens especially, my wife wished to take back with her.
My eight tubs now stood ranged in a row near the water's edge, and I looked at them with great satisfaction; to my surprise, my wife did not seem to share my pleasure.
My wife smiled, for her dislike to tobacco was well known, and she answered in the same jocular tone: "Do you not think that a mattress stuffed with these leaves would be very cool in summer?
For a thousand and one nights she kept up her story telling, and by the end of that time, the sultan had fallen so in love with his wife that he declared she should live.
Perhaps if you had a wife who could tie you up and hang you upon the wall until you promised to do her bidding, you would not be so cheerful either," grumbled the King in return.
Fritz and I took some cheese to help them down, while my wife and younger sons soaked theirs in water.
Dry twigs and seaweed were soon in a blaze on the hearth; I filled the iron pot with water, and giving my wife several cakes of the portable soup, told her to establish herself as our cook, with little Franz to help her.
Although his family consisted only of his wife and a son, he could scarcely by the hardest labor support them.
There was no sign of my wife or children when we stepped on land, but a few moments afterward they appeared, and with a shout of joy ran toward us.
Next morning my wife said, "If you can exist on shore long enough to visit Falconhurst, dear husband, I should like you to attend to the little fruit trees.
Soundly and peacefully we slept until cock-crow next morning, when my wife and I awoke, and began to discuss the business of the day.
My wife hereupon drew from her mysterious bag some handfuls of oats, peas, and other grain, and with them began to feed the poultry.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wife" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: concubine; helpmate; lady; mate; matron; partner; rib; squaw; wife; woman
