He certainly didn't want a wife who was fickle as Ann.

My wife died in childbirth after I was sent away.

Donna, his young wife, the girl who was both daughter and wife to him.

Hank had gathered wood for a cookfire, and his wife was busy at it now.

Out in the center of the circle the farmer, who was Dan, wasted no time when they came to the line, `` The farmer choose his wife ''.

He proudly wore the blue livery of her house, for the girl was Madame Delphine Lalaurie, wife of the prominent surgeon, Dr. Louis Lalaurie, who bore one of the South's oldest and most cherished names.

But his prime interest, apart from music, he insisted seriously, was his family -- his wife, daughter and son.

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 ''.

Paula says that even though Carl's letters usually began, `` Dear Miss Steichen '', there was an understanding from the beginning that they would become husband and wife.

His second wife, Lillian, was the mother of John H. Mercer.

With his wife and three or more children he arrived in Boston in March, 1637, and soon found it was no place for anyone looking for liberty of conscience.

She was Ellen Aldridge, a widow of good repute who was employed by Gorton's wife and lived with the family.

For example, he captured some persons from York County, who with teams were taking to Philadelphia the furniture of a man who had just been released from prison through the efforts of his wife, and who apparently was helpless to prevent the theft of his household goods.

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.

Bridges, a son by his second wife, was christened at Pebworth in 1607, but Thomas the younger was living at Packwood two years later and sold Broad Marston manor in 1622.

His wife, Katie, `` as gay as a lark and as lively as a gazelle '', -- she was then seventy-six, -- had `` a sense of humour that has been denied S.K., but neither has any aesthetic perceptions.

He telephoned L. M. Birkhead and asked him and his wife to come to Europe as his guests, but Birkhead declined on the grounds that one of them must be in the United States when Elmer Gantry was published.

Then he kept Blackman awake for more than an hour while he did an imaginary dialogue between his wife and himself in which, discussing the evening, he was continually berated.

Every man who dabbles in the market to make a little easy money on the side and suffers losses could at the time hardly face his wife who was wondering how her husband could be so dumb.

The only one who would have him was his cripple, the strange unhappy woman who became his wife.

" Of his voice his wife later wrote that it " was a tenor, rather soft in speaking and delicate in singing, but when anything excited him, or it became necessary to exert it, it was both powerful and energetic ".

During his period in opposition, Perceval ’ s legal skills were put to use to defend Princess Caroline, the estranged wife of the Prince of Wales, during the " delicate investigation ".

Women were put in the center of the domestic sphere and were expected to fulfill the roles of a calm and nurturing mother, a loving and faithful wife, and a passive, delicate, and virtuous creature.

There is delicate art in the delineation of the mingled fascination and repulsion which Medea and Jason feel for each other, and when at last repulsion becomes the dominant force, the dramatist gives splendid utterance to the rage of the disappointed wife and mother.

Astor had helped his wife to climb through the window and asked if he could accompany her as she was ' in a delicate condition '.

The conflict between the happiness of the individual and the tragedy of the nation, the scenes by the riversides, women gathering wheat in the fields, the man going to war and the wife embroidering his belt, all represented with a delicate lyrical feeling.

His wife, to whom be was deeply attached, died about this time and the double burden of anxieties was too much for an always delicate constitution.

The women, being in a delicate financial state, decided to combine housekeeping and all four ( Mrs. Austen, Cassandra, Jane and Martha Lloyd ) moved to Southampton to be with Jane's younger brother Frank and his wife, Mary.

Concern over the delicate question of which children are fathered by which brother falls on the wife alone.

They then find Hankey, who tells Kyle that he lives in the sewer during the year, but the influx of all the Hollywood tourists, with their health-food diets ( Robert Redford and his wife are seen asking Chef for various yuppie foods earlier in the episode, such as couscous, steamed celery and tofu ), have disrupted the " delicate ecosystem " of the sewer, which has made him deathly ill.

Before being daughter, wife, or mother, before being cultured ( a word now bereft both socially and politically of the sheen you children of frontiersmen bestowed on it ), before being sorry for the poor, progressive about public health, and prettily if somewhat imprecisely humanitarian, indeed first and foremost, you were a lady.

He worked on educational reform and Arkansas's roads, with wife Hillary leading a successful committee on urban health care reform.

Job is restored to health, gaining double the riches he possessed before and having new children, 7 sons and 3 daughters ( his wife did not die in this ordeal ).

" The bar was our altar " Biographer Andrew Lycett ascribed the demise of Thomas ' health to an alcoholic co-dependent relationship with his wife, who deeply resented his affairs.

Following the death of his wife Jenny in December 1881, Marx developed a catarrh that kept him in ill health for the last 15 months of his life.

Chapman and his wife later set up a health farm ( Shenley Lodge, Shenley, Herts ) and owned a castle in Ireland.

) Garfield was forced to return home, where his wife nursed him back to health and their marriage was reinvigorated.

When Anne's health began to fail, Mary I allowed her to live at Chelsea Old Manor, where Henry's last wife, Catherine Parr, had lived after her remarriage.

However, after his wife fainted in the preparation hearing, she had sought and obtained absence of leave from the Court 16 times citing health concerns before President Chen Shui-bian's term was complete.

His health quickly declined and he died in 1983 at age 73, leaving four children and his second wife.

By 1999, Fish's wife, Americanist Jane Tompkins, had " practically quit teaching " at Duke and " worked as a cook at a local health food restaurant.

* Albert Lasker ( 1880 – 1952 ), pioneer of the American advertising industry, part owner of baseball team the Chicago Cubs, and wife Mary Lasker ( 1900 – 1994 ), an American health activist and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal

As the book progresses, Seldon loses those closest to him, including his wife, Dors Venabili, as his own health deteriorates into old age.

Simon's wife now fell ill, and on 19 January 1794 the Simons left the Temple, after securing a receipt for the safe transfer of their ward, who was declared to be in good health.

The second edition diverged slightly more from Bomberg, and collated more manuscripts ; he did most of the work himself, but failing health forced him to rely partly on his wife and other assistants.

Both contemporary sources and later historians seem to either believe that the young Emperor had exhausted his health with the excesses of his sexual life and his heavy drinking, or suspect Empress Theophano ( c. 941 – after 976 ), his wife, of poisoning him.

She was the wife of Asclepius and mother of Panacea, the goddess of medicines, and Hygieia, the goddess of health.

Bradman's reclusiveness in later life is partly attributable to the on-going health problems of his wife, particularly following the open-heart surgery Jessie underwent in her 60s.

After the controversy with Volta, Galvani kept a low profile partly because of his attitude towards the controversy, and partly because his health and spirits had declined, especially after the death of his wife, Lucia, in 1790.

He is nursed back to health by his wife, who feeds the fire that warms him with a whole log of wood.

He was nursed back to health by his wife Hinepiripiri.

He resigned after only one year due to his wife ’ s health problems.

Due to Major Orlando P. Rooks poor health, and already considering a move, he had his wife, Josephine, moved to Fruitland Park.

Mr. Britts ran the grist mill until about 1900 when, in poor health, he and his wife moved to Duluth to live with son Charles who was a prominent banker in that city.