His wife had said to him: `` Nellie is in love with Clayton Roy.

this is not so, for education offers all kinds of dividends, including how to pull the wool over a husband's eyes while you are having an affair with his wife.

`` As my wife puts it '', he said, again with a twinkle in his eyes, `` all you know is your music.

`` Both children are musical and my wife is a music lover of unfailing instinct and judgement ''.

The supreme object of their lives is now fulfilled, says the wife, her husband has achieved immortality.

He is a Craig's wife who agonizes about tobacco ash on the living room rug and he is a forgetful genius who goes boating with the town baker when dignitaries from the local university have come to call.

Bertha Szold was more like Meg, the eldest March girl, who `` learned that a woman's happiest kingdom is home, her highest honor the art of ruling it, not as a queen, but a wise wife and mother ''.

It is doubtful if Morgan was able to take home much money to his wife and children, for his pay, as shown by the War Department Abstracts of early 1778 was $75 a month as a colonel, and that apt to be delayed.

As they stood at the first-class rail, waving down to his wife and Casanova below, Lewis said, `` Earl, there is Gracie's future husband ''.

He began the dialogue by having his wife announce that one does not invade people's homes without warning them that one is coming, and went on from that with the entire catalogue of his social gaucheries.

While it is easy enough to ridicule Hawkins' pronouncement in Pleas Of The Crown from a metaphysical point of view, the concept of the `` oneness '' of a married couple may reflect an abiding belief that the communion between husband and wife is such that their actions are not always to be regarded by the criminal law as if there were no marriage.

The Peace Corps should not pay the expenses of a wife or family, unless the wife is also accepted for full-time Peace Corps work on the same project.

As in choosing a wife, it is only sensible to consider also how appealing a pool is likely to be in bad weather as well as in good.

Unless you want to make your wife a pool widow and to spend a great many of your leisure hours nursing your pool's pristine purity, its care and feeding -- from pH content to filtering and vacuuming -- is best left to a weekly or bi-monthly professional service.

Of course, if your pool is close to the house, your wife can always add it to her housekeeping chores ( you hope ).

A verse familiar to all grammarians is the quatrain: `` I saw a man once beat his wife When on a drunken spree.

and frightening, as when a wife tells the police that it is funny, but her husband hasn't been home for two days and nights ''.

Old Mr. Pocket's frantic response to life imprisonment with a useless, social-climbing wife is to `` put his two hands into his disturbed hair '' and `` make an extraordinary effort to lift himself up by it '', whereas Joe Gargery endures the shrewish onslaughts of Mrs. Joe by apologetically drawing `` the back of his hand across and across his nose ''.

) Amateur linguists note here that Pursewarden, in Durrell's Alexandria Quartet, stammered when he spoke of his wife, which is hardly surprising in view of their disastrous relationship.

One thing should be clear to both husband and wife -- neither pain nor profuse bleeding has to occur when the hymen is ruptured during the first sex act.

This is a very common experience and should in no way discourage or dishearten either husband or wife.

Whichever the way, he would rot in this vast choking green, his wife never to receive an urn of his ashes.

for to attend the dying was something she had never experienced, and certainly had not imagined when she thought of the duties she would have as Bobby Joe's wife.

In a similar vein, but writing from the opposite side, Thomas Taylor, a private in the 6th Alabama Volunteers, in a letter to his wife, stated: `` you know that my heart is with you but I never could have been satisfied to have staid at home when my country is invaded by a thievin foe, by a set of cowardly skunks whose motto is Booty.

Anta, his wife, never seemed to mind.

After the death of his wife Abby May on November 25, 1877, Alcott never returned to Orchard House, too heartbroken to live there.

Although Pasternak never left his wife, this initiated an extramarital relationship which would last for the remainder of Pasternak's life.

Marriage is a divine institution that can never be broken, even if the husband or wife legally divorce in the civil courts ; as long as they are both alive, the Church considers them bound together by God.

He and his wife divorced in 1973 and Dewar never remarried.

Ethel wrote to Arthur, telling him that it was her firm intention never to live with him again as his wife, though not naming any particular person or reason.

After Kaye and his wife became estranged, he was allegedly involved with a succession of women, though he and Fine never divorced.

His wife managed to get him released from prison, and he wrote letters to his former wife, and told her he never ceased loving her.

Any hope Oxford might have had of assuming parental care of his daughters was dashed by Sir Robert Cecil, due to the fact that he had never supported them financially in the past, and now had yet another wife and child.

No funeral was held for him, and his wife never revealed his burial site.

Puccini and his wife never knew how serious the cancer was, as the news was only revealed to his son.

Trajan never officially designated an heir, but according to his wife Pompeia Plotina, Trajan named Hadrian emperor immediately before his death.

Jackson said he would forgive those who insulted him, but he would never forgive the ones who attacked his wife.

Some also began to use the phrase to refer to non-marital unions: a man interviewed in Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor admitted: " I never had a wife, but I have had two or three broomstick matches, though they never turned out happy.

He was never ousted, not even after the death of his second wife, and eventually succeeded to found a dynasty in Poland by the sons of his last wife, who were not related to earlier Polish rulers.

Brabham says that he " never really wanted " the move, but his wife hoped their sons could grow up away from motorsport.

Baldwin brought with him an Armenian wife, traditionally named Arda ( although never named such by contemporaries ), whom he had married to gain political support from the Armenian population in Edessa, and whom he quickly set aside when he no longer needed Armenian support in Jerusalem.

" would be " I have never beaten my wife ".

A rhetorical question such as " Then please explain, how could I possibly have beaten a wife that I've never had?