Which preposition to use with wife
When my engagement was announced one of my great friends at the German Embassy (Count Arco) said to me: "This is the end, I suppose, of our friendship; I can never go to see you when you are the wife of a French deputy."
You take your satchel or travelling bag, kiss your wife in a hurry at the door, and jump aboard of the cars; the whistle sounds, the locomotive breathes hoarsely for a moment, and you are off like a shot.
If a man can prove that his upper story is crackt, he can wallop his wife to his heart's content; and if anybody interferes, he can popp him off with a six shooter, and the law will stand to his back.
No man may arrogate itno pastor for people, no husband for wife, no wife for husband, no parent for child.
Probably there was at the back of his attentions to Mrs Ottley a vague idea that he wanted to get her on his sidethat she might be a useful ally; but he was always charming to elderly women, and inclined to be brusque with younger ones, excepting Edith; he remembered his own mother with so great a cult of devotion, and his late wife with such a depressed indifference.
F. wanted very much to be with his wife at night, as he was a busy man and away all day, and I tried to get a room for him, but the mother superior, a delightful old lady, wouldn't hear of it.
Judiciously presented, in a velvet case, they may be depended upon to at once divert a young Wife from Returning to her Mother, as she has threatened.
Unless one arrives very early the tribunes are packed, and the President's box very crowded, as he invites the diplomatic corps and the ministers and their wives on that day.
Men "look down" upon their wives as "weak" or "inferior," and women look down upon their husbands as "animals" or "great brutes."
Remember that, and do not give it to your wife by way of a tonic as you did last time.
No more, thy Fate is fix'dand, here attend, till he himself deliver his willing Wife into my Arms; Bassa, attend, and see it be perform'd
She sits in front of the box and the young man in the stalls, where he can study his future wife without committing himself.
She was a grave and venerable lady, and wise to judge of what she saw, and she would not too hastily give up the man who had sought protection in her house; so she strictly questioned the wife about the story she told of her husband's madness, and she said, "What is the cause of this sudden distemper of your husband's?
I hope, when you are married, you will have no objection to lord Osborne, or any other person of fashion making love to your wife before your face.
III Colonel Musgrave had a brief interview with his wife after luncheon.
I'll stand to't, a Man had better have a Mule to his Wife than a Woman, and 'twere easier govern'd.
Is there no right or reason in these days of domestic revolution for men to name themselves LAVINIA and SARAH if they like it, and their wives like it?
"Now we will kick his wife out of Paris and smash his furniture.
"I cannot now be other than one wife among many; and what place I hold among them is, remember, for you and you alone to fix.
"Born wert thou of a mother chaste as fair, true wife unto the Duke thy fathera woman sweet and holy who liveth but to the good of others: yet was brother slain by brother, and thou baptised in blood ere now!" "Woman," quoth he, his strong hands a-tremble, "who art thouwhat knowest thou of mymother?
Wife, Sir! ay, your Wife Sir Cau. Hum, my Wife against three hundred Pounds!
In our own law, marriage is "presumed if the man and woman have lived together in the openly acknowledged relation of husband and wife during two years immediately preceding the date of the declaration of war."
If married, they laugh heartily with their wives over any letter or episode that is comical or sentimental.
Love in its full strength and beauty seldom dwells in the heart of both husband and wife through all the vicissitudes of life.
And bring my Wife along with me.