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Sentences ending with wives

I began by washing windows, and doing odd jobs for the professors' wives. [9]
And it was to him an enigma--when occasionally he allowed his thoughts to dwell upon such trivial matters--why Honora was not equally congenial with the wives. [9]
Thus very ugly, though rich men, have been known to fail in getting wives. [1]
For Collier Brandt, the father of all this numerous progeny, was a Mormon with four wives. [13]
They say the Sultan has eight hundred wives. [5]
But her emotion passed unnoticed by Cambyses, who went on speaking: "My mother Kassandane will tell you the duties expected from my wives. [10]
You are one of the king's nearest relations too--I tell you, Araspes, you might have twenty young and beautiful wives. [10]
I have been obliged to please my patients sometimes with reasons, and I have found that any will pass, even with able divines and acute lawyers; the same will pass with the husbands as with the wives. [3]
Woman's place, continued Miss Turner, was the home, and she hoped they would all make good wives. [9]
Those theorizers who, led astray by the dark side of higher civilization, preach a community of goods, generally contemplate in their simultaneous recommendation of the emancipation of woman a more or less developed form of a community of wives. [4]

Sentences containing wives two or more times

What if their wives are fond, after the decease of their husbands, to bestow themselves not so advisedly as their calling requireth; do not duchesses, countesses, and knights' wives offend in the like fully so often as they? [4]
The three have wives and the wives have several names, and this increases the confusion. [5]
Existence was decorous, marriage an irrevocable step, wives were wives, and the Authorized Version of the Bible was true from cover to cover. [9]
Then you'll presently lose your mind:" Jack and most men have little idea that they are windows through which their wives see the world; and how much more of the world they know in that way than men usually suspect or wives ever tell! [4]
Know also, that in Persia, though certainly only at high festivals, the king's wives have their places at the men's table, and that we pay the highest reverence to our wives and mothers. [10]

More example sentences with the word wives in them

When I was young, husbands and wives usually went to parties together. [9]
My wives are young and charming, and when they grow old, what is to hinder me from taking others, still handsomer, and who, by the side of the faded beauties, will be doubly charming. [10]
I am sure you will join me in the hope for their further success; while yourself, and other good mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters, do all you and they can, to relieve and comfort the gallant soldiers who compose them. [7]
Mormon wives wear yokes, but they get jealous. [13]
As for their wives, Mrs. Joshua was a merry, brown-eyed little lady already inclining to stoutness, and Honora felt at home with her at once. [9]
Hopeless husbands and wives were cast up like driftwood by the cruel, resistless flood of modern civilization--the very civilization which yielded their wealth and luxury. [9]
Negroes and farmers' wives took to the woods when the buggy came upon them suddenly, and altogether the drive was pleasant and animated, and a refreshment all around. [5]
To-day his other wives seemed hateful, even loathsome, to him. [10]
The king's lawful wives sat on his left hand; Nitetis next to him, then Atossa, and by her side the pale, plainly-dressed Phaedime; next to this last wife of Cambyses sat Boges, the eunuch. [10]
Many of the wives of our Union soldiers have been compelled to leave. [7]
Rustlers don't have wives nor sisters nor daughters. [13]
Father liked his wives from the original States; but I was born in Chicago. [11]
For I have wives all over this Territory of Utah. [5]
The streets swarmed with people, waiting impatiently to see the strange spectacle which the punishment of one of the king's wives, who had proved false and faithless, promised to afford. [10]
Most of them will be wives, and every American-born husband is a possible President of these United States. [6]
I saw men whom thirty years had changed but slightly; but their wives had grown old. [5]
Two of them were the young men with the bonny wives who now with murmured endearments grasped their cold hands. [11]
And while they were at this work, which was difficult, their wives put in the night spending the money, which was easy. [5]
And the place was plum full of farmers and farmers' wives, to dinner; and such another clack a body never heard. [5]
Frau Crelinger's husband was a highly respected jurist and councillor of justice, but among all the councillors' wives by whom she was surrounded I never heard her make use of her husband's title. [10]
The greater intellectual vigour and power of invention in man is probably due to natural selection, combined with the inherited effects of habit, for the most able men will have succeeded best in defending and providing for themselves and for their wives and offspring. [1]
Better eternal and universal abstinence than the brutalities of those days that made wives and mothers and daughters and sisters blush for those whom they should have honored, as they came reeling home from their debauches! [6]
This group also--soldiers, travelling artisans, peasants, and tradesfolk with their wives, who, like most of those present, were waiting for the vessel which was to sail down the Main early the next morning--gazed toward the door. [10]
He's walked, I'm told, over every foot of New England, talking to the farmers and their wives and--all sorts of people. [9]
He is said to have had a hundred wives, and generally a dozen--the youngest--personally attending him. [4]
Once upon a time there was a great king in Persia, who had many wives, but he loved Phaedime better than the rest, and set her above all the others. [10]
It was not till about that time that citizens' wives ceased to wear white knit woolen caps, and three-square Minever caps with peaks. [4]
The wives of these citizens shall accompany you. [10]
The youngest told them not to whisper their intention to their wives, but secretly to prepare for their journey. [5]
Husbands tire of their wives, but stay on and beat them. [11]
They, "and also their wives, began to make themselves merry, insomuch that they began to dance, and to sing, and to speak with much rudeness; yea, they were lifted up unto exceeding rudeness. [5]
At their homes their wives sprang up with an eager "Well? [5]
Men had kissed their wives and then killed them--fondled them, and then strangled them. [11]
And he gave the wives of whom he was tired to his favorites. [4]
Finally, Seleukus presented the wives of the magnates who had shared with him the cost of this display, and among these, all magnificently dressed, the lady Berenike shone supreme by the pride of her demeanor and the startling magnificence of her attire. [10]
They would become the temporary wives of white men, to whom they were on the whole faithful and devoted. [11]
She had heard the news from Frail Van Hout and the wives of other citizens. [10]
Up and down the grassy streets flowed the promenade, proud fathers and mothers, and sweethearts and sisters and wives in gala dress. [9]
I shall describe the game to Our mother Kassandane, and she will be delighted to allow my brother's wives this new amusement. [10]
I fear that the fishermen who have made a show of industry, and got away from their wives, who are busily weaving nets on shore, are yielding to the seductions of the occasion, and making a day of it. [4]
Real, genuine glory, the fairest of wives, and a proud crown--or defeat and ruin. [10]
He noticed that the faces of the nineteen chief citizens and their wives bore that expression of peaceful and holy happiness again. [5]
What sightseeing by the country members and their wives who have come to attend the inauguration of the new governor, the Honourable Asa P. Gray! [9]
Machumps, who was the brother of Winganuske, one of the many wives of Powhatan, had been in England. [4]
The day after the announcement appeared, our bell ran perpetually; and we had as many letters as if we had advertised for wives innumerable. [4]
The first declared that the report that Count Rostopchin had forbidden people to leave Moscow was false; on the contrary he was glad that ladies and tradesmen's wives were leaving the city. [2]
It was known that Blanche resented even the most casual notice from those men who had wives and homes. [11]
It was a tempting creed for shameless men, allowing them to have half a dozen wives or more without regarding it as a sin. [10]
They are so supremely selfish that if the least difference in taste develops, or if another man or woman chances along whom they momentarily fancy more than their own husbands or wives, they get a divorce. [9]
Observation of this sort would also teach us doubtless what places are most conducive to literary production, what to happy homes and agreeing wives and husbands. [4]
He could have shot Dyer in the midst of his religious services at the altar; he could have killed Tull in front of wives and babes. [13]
The other half shall be handed over to Dicearchus, my agent in Alexandria, because it is my will that Klea and Irene shall not enter my own house or that of Lysias in Corinth as wives, without the dowry that beseems their rank. [10]
He had several seats, at which he alternately lived with his many wives and guard of bowmen, the chief of which at the arrival of the English was Werowomocomo, on the Pamunkey (York) River. [4]
Decisive encounters, he said, were impending, and she knew that the Egyptians always excluded their wives and daughters from their war train, and regarded them as the best reward of victory when peace was obtained. [10]
He continued to retain an aversion to his wives; so much so that the royal harem was to be left behind in Susa, though all his court took their favorite wives and concubines with them on the campaign. [10]
Rich men, or reputed rich men, whose wives never appeared, who were kept in secluded quarters in Bloomsbury or Maida Vale, gave dinners at the Savoy or the Carlton which the scrapings of the aristocracy attended; but these gave no dinners in return. [11]
The ladies whom Proclus had invited were all confidants of Arsinoe, the wives and daughters of his other guests. [10]
Up to the present time all Cambyses' wives had been Asiatics, and, well aware of the unlimited power of the chief of the eunuchs, had used every means within their reach to secure his favor by flattery and submission. [10]
And while we posted up in this way, the Faculty's wives must flock over, one after the other, in a studiedly casual way, and help my wife keep the New Zealander quiet, and not let him get out and come interfering with our studies. [5]
When this was over he left the hall and went to Phaedime, who as one of the king's lawful wives, had a private room, separated from those allotted to the concubines. [10]
Husbands pointed him out to their wives, young men to sisters and sweethearts, some openly, some discreetly. [9]
Perhaps the Mormon's other wife or wives would not acknowledge Milly. [13]
Mrs. March was one of those wives who exact a more rigid adherence to their ideals from their husbands than from themselves. [8]
He who has once loved thee, can never love another: I know it is the custom in my country to have many wives, but this is only allowed; there is no law to enjoin it. [10]
I have dozens of wives whose numbers, even, I do not know without looking in the family Bible. [5]
The fresh air of morning was delicious, and at this early hour there was no one to avoid--only the peasants and their wives carrying the produce of their gardens and fields to market on asses, or wagons drawn by oxen. [10]
If the purpose of marriage is the family, the person who wishes to have many wives or husbands may perhaps obtain much pleasure, but in that case will not have a family. [2]
Even grey-bearded men of dignified bearing, and wives and mothers whose looks augured gentle hearts thrust back the few hapless foes who had succeeded in reaching the land on the ruins of the war-chariots or baggage-wagons. [10]
Thus the practice of capturing wives might have arisen; and from the honour so gained it might ultimately have become the universal habit. [1]
In the shade of a wide, low, vine-roofed porch Jane found Brandt's wives entertaining Bishop Dyer. [13]
I had thought of a reception, maybe, that would include the lady contributors and artists, and the wives and daughters of the other contributors. [8]
Our wives won't object to an occasional bout of loafing together, will they? [11]
She herself desired nothing better; yet it secretly incensed her and pierced her soul with pain to see herself at twenty unwedded, while far less attractive companions of her own age had long been wives and mothers. [10]
During that one night the nineteen wives spent an average of seven thousand dollars each out of the forty thousand in the sack--a hundred and thirty-three thousand altogether. [5]
We poor wives must swink for our masters, while they sit in their arm-chairs growing as great in the girth through laziness as that ill-mannered fat man William hath writ of in his books of players' stuff. [6]
The young wives must find their lords wofully ignorant, in a large proportion of cases. [6]
In spite of Mr. Lawler's Pilot, which was as a voice crying in the wilderness, citizens who had wives and homes and responsibilities, business men and clerks went to the voting booths and recorded their choice for Trulease, Watling and Prosperity: and working-men followed suit. [9]
The Emperor of Morocco don't know how many wives he has, but thinks he has five hundred. [5]
They invent illegal modes of expenditure; and what do they or their wives care about the law? [4]
It seems to me that it is not the anger of your wives you fear, so much as the commission of an offence against the customs of your country. [10]
No matter how many brilliant alliances have been arranged, no matter how many husbands and wives have drifted apart in the local whirlpools of the summer's current, the season will be dull if Wall Street is torpid and discouraged. [4]
Your sons may make free to take their pleasure among the wives of the heathen; it only remains to be proved whether the heathen husbands will be trifled with or not. [10]
Obey this my last will, and the earth will yield you its fruits abundantly; your wives, your flocks and herds shall be blessed and freedom shall be your portion. [10]
They did not know very well what to make of their wives as 'ladies. [6]
It seizes all: Knights, maidens, wives and widows; not one is spared. [10]
He would have jealously guarded his wife or wives. [1]
On this day it was customary for the king to grant each of his wives one reasonable petition. [10]
The worthy merchant, it is true, deemed love a beautiful thing, but in Nuremberg it was the parents who chose wives and husbands for their sons and daughters; yet, after marriage, love took possession of the newly wedded pair. [10]
What, in fact, is the condition in those households where the wives do not care? [4]
One evening they introduced their wives. [9]
This she did in all fidelity, but in her hours of leisure she loved to listen to the stories told her by the wives of officials, who had seen, and could praise, the splendors of Rome the golden. [10]
An author of ideals would not dare to proclaim that this change is inevitable: some husbands--and some wives are fortunate enough to escape it, but it is not unlikely to happen in our modern civilization. [9]
What concerns us I inherited from my mother, and, as I mean kindly toward you, this very heritage compels me to warn you against marrying me if you are unable to support me so that I can make a good appearance among Ratisbon wives. [10]
It might be humiliating to know just how many men live by the labors of their wives. [4]
We Asiatics know how to honor beauty; and prove it by taking many wives. [10]
The Mukaukas and his son have declared all their possessions to the uttermost dinar and hide of land; they have faithfully paid the taxes, and consequently their property belongs to them as our swords, our horses, our wives belong to you or me. [10]
The attitude toward him of the Chipperings and their wives was one of an interesting adjustment of feudalism to democracy. [9]
She can teach her that wives are not expensive toys, but useful partners, friends, and confidants, who should always keep men under their wholesome influence by their diplomacy, their tact, their common-sense, without bumptiousness. [5]
With four wives he is wholly independent, and need never do a stroke of work again. [5]
Solomon had one; he had about a million wives. [5]

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