The prayer-meeting at Uncle Tom's Cabin had been protracted to a very late hour, and Tom and his worthy helpmeet were not yet asleep, when between twelve and one there was a light tap on the window pane.

On the opposite side of the field stood the row of steep-roofed, palm- thatched huts in which the ordinary cowhands lived with their dusky helpmeets and children.

It is for your well-being the world should know me as your wife, and, the Lord helping me, I will be a willing, faithful helpmeet to you, caring most for your comfort and happiness, spending and being spent in your service; never demanding or desiring your attention, except so much as is due me in outward seeming; interfering with none of your pleasures or pursuits, or thrusting my needs or feelings never before you.

She had gone out with him from home and kin to a hard and heathen land, and she had been his loyal helpmeet in all his trials.

Lord Lynedale had become Lord Ellerton, and I listened to the praises that were sung of the newly married couplefor Eleanor had become Lady Ellerton, and had entered fully into all her husband's magnificent philanthropic schemesa helpmeet, if not an oracular guide.

He is at his best as a worker, conscious of the responsibility reposed in him; a marvel of generalship, gentle, judicious, slow to anger, quick to action; the priceless helpmeet of his masterthe most useful member of all the tribe of dogs.

For all they may say of the superior genius of Bach's first wife's children, it was in his second wife that he seems to have found his more congenial and appreciative helpmeet.

All the mother in her hated to have him hurt, but the sensible helpmeet part of her knew that it must be done.

I married a young woman of Rhodes, and gave her a very considerable establishment, which I was able to do, for Andronicus paid me much better than Herodotus had done; but she did not prove a very suitable helpmeet, and I believe she married me simply because I was in fairly good circumstances.

The last to go was Martha, Hannah's trusty helpmeet and lieutenant in all her benevolent schemes, and her tender consoler in many a season of sickness.

He trembled and endured, till he found a razor concealed under his wife's pillow, and then he determined to remove his violent helpmeet to a safe seclusion.

Nowhere else can I find the broad perspective of his theology and his primary helpmeets in the devotional life as I find them there.