Then imagine thousands and thousands of wives walking up and down the streets on strike, and scabs taking their places.
Why, if wivescould be supported for fifty cents a year, that empty-headed specimen of vacuous mentality couldn't even keep a cock-roach from starving.
Could there be any more incongruous thing thanwives forming a Union?
This is why so many musical comedies have made use of plots hinged on mistaken identity, Kings and Princesses in masquerade, and wives and husbands anxiously avoiding each other and forever meeting unexpectedly.
Johnson puts it at even a later date, for he claims that tea was first introduced into England by Lords Arlington and Ossory, in 1666, and really made its debut into society when the wives of these noblemen gave it its vogue.
Every evening after cards Modest Alexeitch was excitedly whispering with his colleagues' wives and glancing at Anna, and then paced up and down the room for a long while, thinking.
And what would be the good of fifteen hundred roubles when there were eighteen hundred workmen in the factory besides their wives and children?
They occasionally come there with their wives to buy eau de cologne, and they never cease drinking until drunkenness literally deprives them of the power to move.
The matter took a happy turn, and the two young princes embarked upon the pinnace, when one of Terreoboo's wives begged him with tears not to go on board.
They remained about us, without making any demonstration either of hostility or friendship, and theirwives and children were with them.
Laden with flowers, and laughing as merrily as a young girl, Josephine finally entered the house; in the hall of the latter the ladies of the French ambassadors, the wives and daughters of Bonnier Reberjot and Jean Debry, were waiting for her.
Now be strong and courageous--be wives worthy of your husbands," they whispered.
He even held no further intercourse with his own countrymen; and his tall and imposing figure, with the proud and gloomy countenance, was seen no longer every night as heretofore in the drawing-rooms of the wives of Roberjot and Debry.
We will," said Bonnier; "you will not derogate from your republican dignity by consulting the safety of your wives and children.
They were married, and entered sullenly into a war which deprived theirwives and children of their daily bread.
The ambassadors with their wives and attendants had finally taken seats in the carriages.
Not one of Olenda's numerous wiveswas well, but the king remained my steadfast friend.
Their wives are as wild and uncivilized as themselves; they know little or nothing of religion, and their children grow up utterly ignorant and uneducated.
There were three of them, and they were certainly as rough and wild, and unfeminine-looking as the wives of the bergers are usually reported to be.
Many sad incidents could be marked; there were poor luckless fellows who had signed their contracts unconsciously, when in liquor in the grog-shop, and they had to be dragged on board by force; their own wives helping the gendarmes.
And, all through the country, joy returned with them, and there was happiness for the wives and mothers; and junkets in the taverns where the beautiful barmaids of Paimpol served out drink to the fishers.
On this particular morning, fifteen vessels were to start with the Leopoldine, and the wives or mothers of the sailors were all present at the getting under sail.
Around Gaud stood many good-looking wives like her, and touching, with their eyes big with tears; others were thoughtless and lively; these had no heart or were not in love.
Then, while she was still quite little, her tribe declared war against another tribe, and all the young men went out to battle, and were defeated, and fled back to their village to make a last stand in defence of their wives and children.
I know he has a large cupboard at home with the heads of all the wives he has decapitated hanging up in a row by the back hair!
I am about to utter blasphemy, but I think that our holy religion ought to prohibit a plurality of wives to those who are not rich enough to give to each a separate habitation.
In the evening, when I retired to rest, I perceived that my wives had prepared no bed for her, and that the unfortunate girl was extended on the ground.
I ought, however, to rectify one inaccuracy in what I said just now, that my four wives had never agreed together.
The Volunteers immediately assembled, shouldered their muskets, and set off towards Worcester with immense alacrity and amid the enthusiastic cheers of their wives and sweethearts.
Soon after the decision of the committee was known, a dinner was given to Mr. Borthwick, and he was presented with an oblong silver salver, which had been subscribed for by the wives and daughters of the Conservative electors.
What pen can truthfully describe the weary watching and waiting of the wives and mothers, the daughters and sisters, during those long four years of fire and blood?
It is no exaggeration to say that thewives of our early preachers often suffered for want of nourishing food, while, when on his circuit, the husband had abundance.
And what is true of these is true of the whole family of preachers' wives of that heroic period of Methodism.
But these heroic wives and their heroic husbands were not the only heroes of that period, nor the greatest.
It is our lives that he seeks, not that we should be the wives of his sons.
And the men began to shoulder their shovels, both so as to be away from her, and to go and tell their wives of it.
After these the men came hotly, without decent order, trying to spy the girls in front, and make good jokes about them, at which their wives laughed heartily, being jealous when alone perhaps.
We arranged that all our men should come and fall into order with pike and musket, over against our dung-hill, and we settled early in the day, that their wives might come and look at them.
And some help was needed there, I can well assure you; for the reapers had brave appetites, and most of their wives having babies were forced to eat as a duty.
Meanwhile the reapers were mostly gone, to be up betimes in the morning; and some were led by their wives; and some had to lead their wives themselves, according to the capacity of man and wife respectively.
And after these men and their wives came all the children toddling, picking flowers by the way, and chattering and asking questions, as the children will.
Many of the officers have their wives and families with them so that there is no reason why we should not be together also.
The men rode horseback with their wives behind them on pillions, and with rifles held in the hollow of their left arms; for it was the practice in those trying times to bear arms even upon visits of business or friendship.
Tis not befitting the wives and daughters of soldiers to indulge in such pastimes.
The custom of campaigning only in the summer hath the advantage of permitting our wives and daughters to join us in camp during the winter; so my wife and Peggy have come for that time.
Prostitutes do this in the way of business; some chaste, passionatewives act thus voluntarily.
Husbands are very decidedly fairer than men in general, and though there is no such marked difference in women, wives are also somewhat fairer than women in general.
One of them, when asked one day in a Western drawing-room “how many wives has your father?
It was after the visit of the Empress Eugénie that the women of the palace and the wives of the high functionaries copied as nearly as they could the appearance of the beautiful Empress.
From odalisques[15] they became mothers and wives determined to give their children the education they themselves had so badly needed.
But there were women who deemed themselves worse off than Nina Beaubien,--the wives and daughters and sweethearts whom she met that morn in town; for when they got back to Sibley the regiment was miles away.
Most wives who brought fortunes proved to be impeditive in some fashion--there was unquestionably an impediment here!
Before morning twice as many wives had told their husbands what they thought of them, and reminded them that they had always said how it would be--only they were never listened to!
In many a back parlor in Maerdol, and the Foregate, and on the Cop, wives had spoken their minds.
Extraordinary methods are adopted by the Wagogo in securing wives in addition to the ways described above.
When a husband pays more attention to one of his wivesthan the others they become jealous, and probably set about poisoning her or their lord and master as the simplest way out of the difficulty.
Thus the polygamist has no easy time in striving to please all his wives and guarding himself against the deadly potion; while if by chance all of them combine against him, his lot is a hapless one indeed.
He carried the forbidden wives to the top of a high mountain and cast them over a cliff, one by one, to the number of six hundred.
Also, they may go out to their hunting and fear nothing as to their return, for their wives will be waiting with food in their hands.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wives" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
