However little intelligence a woman may have, she knows that the strongest tie to bind you to her is anticipation, wherefore, you must let her lay the blame on you.

For regard for the gods, and for our parents, and for our country, and for those men who are eminent for wisdom or power, is usually referred to affection; but wives, and children, and brothers, and others whom habit and intimacy has united with us, although they are bound to us by affection, yet the principal tie is love.

The tie of wedlock, besides being the most sacred, is also the dearest; and happy, indeed, are they who enter into the solemn engagement with such cheerful prospects as ourselves.

Perhaps the real tie between them was Sophy's intense devotion to the teacher.

The ties of father, mother, husband, and child, have already been rent in twain; before he receives him, his soul has become callous.

A blue bird's-eye tie, I remember, was the last touch.

the tie, so close, so dear, Two years ago death rent asunder; Hushed is the voice so gay and clear Which moved us once to joy and wonder; Yet, though they chronicle a loss Whose pang no lapse of time assuages, The spirit of brave "MARTIN ROSS" Shines like a star throughout these pages.

Man's family ties are patterns of His.

Unless thy heart is with the marriage, the ties I would form are but threads and cobwebs.

His wrists projected offensively from his coat sleeves, he perceived a huge asymmetry in the collar of his jacket, his red tie was askew and ill tied, and that waterproof collar!

Where do you find the notion that the tie between husband and wife is a sacred thing, to be broken at no temptation, but in man?

He "wore his beaver stiffly up," his neck-tie was a starched white cravat, his clothes were black broadcloth, with the dress coat worn by gentlemen in the early and middle years of last century.

Whereas the tie between British Ministers is generally tape (red).

The girl, seeing, checked the song upon her lips; and going to the woman who in everything but the ties of blood was mother to her, sought to discover the reason for her troubled manner, and tried to soothe her with loving words.

I sometimes think family ties are the very deuce.

Another great tie or cause of love, is consanguinity: parents are clear to their children, children to their parents, brothers and sisters, cousins of all sorts, as a hen and chickens, all of a knot: every crow thinks her own bird fairest.

He will not utterly go back on the ties of blood, no matter what sort of knots those ties may be.

That red tie was indeed but one outward and visible sign of much inward and spiritual development.

They take no account of the solemn obligations of gratitude; the ties of affection are so many means of working upon the fears of those they rule, but

Ka-tie is pre-par-ing thus, Quite a store of balls for Gus; But her mer-ry sis-ter May From her task has run a-way, All that heavy lump of snow, At her cou-sin Gus to throw.