But as mistress of his establishment she had an opportunity to display her house-wifely qualities, as well as to practise those nameless arts by which almost any clever woman knows how to render herself agreeable.

Moreover, he hoped that she would not so absorb Blossy's attention as to preclude a wifely ministering to his aching feet and the application of "St. Jerushy Ile" to his lame and sore back.

Mrs. Hawthorne said she took a wifely pride in his having no small vices.

In a word Mrs. Tutt performed her wifely functions in a purely matter-of-fact way.

First comes the love god, leading by the hand Alcestis, model of all wifely virtues, whose emblem is the daisy; and behind them follow a troup of glorious women, all of whom have been faithful in love.

Who deserved more wealth of wifely sacrifice?

There was no one to advise, no one to check, no one to help her to keep in the path of wifely fidelity.

Eventually she has to abandon him, but demonstrates her wifely devotion by going back to nurse him through his last illness.

But for the highest praise of her wifely devotion, her patience and unchanging love, and for her lofty admiration of Mozart, both as man and musician, there is a superfluity of proof.

What right had Laura Fairford to preach to her of wifely obligations?

Mrs. Grummit looked up, and noticed with wifely pleasure that he was looking almost cheerful.

She drew her hand away and retreated a step, coloring at the wifely liberty she had permitted herself to take.

AGNEI'A (3 syl.), wifely chastity, sister of Parthen'ia or maiden chastity.

Mr. Rymer was 'in the City'; Mrs. Rymer, who had two little girls, lived only for domestic peaceshe had been in better circumstances, but did not repine, and forgot all worldly ambition in the happy discharge of her wifely and maternal duties.

Whether she intended to act in a reasonable manner and show some wifely traits when my £250 of legacy and savings was quite dissipated I do not know.

She loved the great man tenderly, ministered to his wants with a wifely devotion which would hardly suit the "New Woman," and when he was wont to eat too much (for he had given up the flowing bowl[A] and must cultivate some other species of gluttony), the ex-dancer would have the dinner-table removed.

I never thought of course that he would rush off to Africa like this, and although I feel I was perfectly right and should act in the very same way againstillwell, there is no use talking about it, dearest Mammaand please don't write me a sermon on wifely duty and submissionbecause it will only make me worse.

With the seclusion of women and the laying of even greater stress on wifely chastity, romantic love was increasingly denied.

I still hold that conjugal love antedated the romantic variety, but further study has convinced me that (as will be shown in the chapters on Conjugal Love and on India, and Greece) much of what has been taken as evidence of wifely devotion is really only a proof of man's tyrannic selfishness which compelled the woman always to subordinate herself to her cruel master.

In other words, his "jealousy" is not a solicitude for marital honor, for wifely purity and affection, but simply a question of lending his property and being paid for it.

" The most painstaking research has failed to reveal to me a single Indian tribe in North or South America that showed a capacity for real jealousy, that is, anguish based on a sense of violated wifely chastity and alienated affection.

Failing wifely joy, they had too often regarded themselves as unsuccessful, and had apologized tacitly to the world for using their abilities in any direction save one.

" "Oh, David!" said Honora with gentle wifely reproach.

She had renounced the mistress qualities which the successful wife requires to supplement her wifely character, and she had learned too late that love must have other elements than the rigidly sensible ones.

I have left Kentucky after nine years of stay-at-home happiness, and once again I am on my way to Japanthis time in wifely disobedience to Jack's wishes.