There was a young Abuela sitting at one of the tables with a US senator and his wife, and another picture where she was sitting with the famous musician Celia Cruz. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“My wife’s suggestion. I’ve been plagued over the years with headaches, you know. Not that it should concern you. But when they made their return — this is about the time you reappeared — she said — well.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

We girls were reminded that we could look forward to becoming teachers, nurses, wives, and mothers. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They established that Queenie and the gentleman’s wife had been at the same college, albeit nearly twenty years apart, and traded literary quotations in German. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

In fact, he and his wife had never owned a pet, unless you counted the stray cat that occasionally slept under the back porch. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

For one thing, the white demons would not let wives join their husbands on the Golden Mountain because they did not want us settling there permanently. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then after a time Wang Lung’s uncle’s wife came out, laughing a little maliciously, and she dusted her hands together as though to free them of something that clung to them. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

My parents and my wife’s mother begged us to take the children and go away somewhere until this thing blew over. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He came upon the great box and broke it open and took the pitiful cargo home to his wife who was as kind as he. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Being the other woman is a huge turn-on, there’s no point denying it: you’re the one he can’t help but betray his wife for, even though he loves her. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was too young when my other grandparents died, but I’d heard so much about how my father’s father couldn’t bear to live without his wife. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

When the daughter's baby girl was born, his wife put her foot down. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Was that a baby from your first wife?” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Reed, my uncle’s wife. My uncle is dead, and he left me to her care.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Seeing him with his wife, I understood why people in the neighborhood said he was distinguished. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Mr. Campbell had his hand lightly on his wife’s back. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Eventually it will be the name of the Indian prime minister’s Italian wife. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They probably didn’t know that his wife was a teacher too—eighth grade English at a school on Chicago’s South Side. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

He and his wife, Mabel, had two daughters who lived into their eighties and two sons who died as infants. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Oliver is an editor at an art magazine; his wife, Sally, works as a pastry chef. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Soon it would be filled with people, like the bishop’s wife had said, and Maxim would stand at the bottom of the stairs shaking hands with them, as they came into the hall. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

My father sat up there, and the rest of us sat below him at a center table with the wives of the Kiwanis Club officers. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“When I phoned my apartment,” Rick said, “why didn’t I get my wife?” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“But, Lance, if you love him so much, what is the good of running away with his wife?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why, Jane? I will spare you the trouble of much talking; I will answer for you—Because I have a wife already, you would reply.—I guess rightly?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

And it was hard to remember a worse day in his life than the one when he turned to his wife and simply said, “This thing’s got to go.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I says no thank you I have all the women I can take care of now if I married a wife she’d probably turn out to be a hophead or something. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

You say, ‘Who is that woman out there? She claims to be your wife.’ The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

His wife wept for the little things that could have made the girls’ last minutes happier. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"And to think," said Lasaraleen, almost crying, "that if only you had sense you could be the wife of a Grand Vizier!" The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

He and his old wife cheesed at me one more time and wandered over to a purple health-department booth where the staff were taking people’s blood pressure. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

And this sing-song girl, after she had seen his enormous wealth and his feebleminded first wife, consented to become his concubine. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama didn’t like the pastor all that much—both he and his wife were originally from Atlanta, and Mama said they asked for too much in tithing and did too little shepherding. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Atawallpa’s generals took the Inka as a captive to Qosqo and executed his wives, children, and relatives in front of him. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Ob talked about what a good wife May was and all the sweet things she’d done for him—for us—while she was living. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

On July 11 Oppenheimer kissed his wife goodbye and drove out to the desert. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The screen of the empathy box now showed rushing streams of bright formless color; taking a breath, his wife hung on tightly to the two handles. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

In spite of the wives' agreement that such malevolence was beyond credibility, the dispute ended in a short struggle, and both wives were lifted kicking into the night. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

And on came the voice of this senator’s wife, pleasant and warm. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Come get your wife!” he shouted into it. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Deanna Deas is the type the boss’s wife would definitely not hire. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“My wife, Naomi, isn’t home right now, but I’m sure she’ll want to meet you, too.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“His wife is Dale Evans,” I went on. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

That night I was awakened by a voice, the wife’s. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The time came to take my wife and children to Dallas. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They say his first wife, his one great love, betrayed him while he was imprisoned on the Isle of Pines, after his ill-fated attack on the Moncada barracks. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My wife is in labor at the hospital.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The ladies of the church auxiliary, alerted to my return by the superintendent’s wife, swoop down on me within the hour. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Dinner was ready a little later, and with an arm around my wife and an arm around my son, I advanced toward the dining room. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the pilots were drifting back from the bar, still laughing at the rare faux pas of a colonel’s wife calling her husband at happy hour. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no time for a letter to his wife, that troubled woman. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hira, the butcher’s wife, waved to us from her front step as we walked past. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Mr. Derby, dressed in a red velvet suit, escorted his now very pregnant wife into the room. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went over to Herbert's wife as she held him tightly, sobbing softly. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

His wife's brother was young, and more gallant than wise. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I thought Mr. Lias would go on telling about his wife then, but his tongue had already burned out. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“If it wasn't for your stupid, harebrained ‘project’ this woman would have been retired long ago,” Mr. Levy said to his wife. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He moved the phone away from his mouth and yelled, “Get Pop, lady’s on the phone about his wife cells.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

To Tree-ear’s surprise, Min’s wife was waiting for him out on the road in front of the house the next morning. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Polly, eyes full of honest fear, told him sadly, “The baby was stillborn, sir. I’m so sorry. But your wife is fine,” she added. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

At home my wife and children were probably having their evening baths, safe against the dusk and the cold. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

No husband of mine will say, “I could have been a drummer, but I had to think about the wife and kids. You know how it is.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Especially when it came to the chastity of a wife. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It seems that Claire’s family had not been in Chicago very long because her father had his wife and children wait while he asked directions from a man and woman who lived down the block. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was a handyman, a very nice man with a wife and children. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Hassan would go in the evenings after closing his store, and purchase from the butcher’s wife, while the physician went in the morning to shop from the butcher’s son. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

"He is my wife's twin, a Sworn Brother of the Kings- guard, his life and fortune and honor all bound to mine." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Surely not even his wife or closest friends had ever seen him like this. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to make sure that his family was safe, but Kathy, his wife, wasn’t afforded the same certainty. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Please, wife, let these men do their work with no further delay. There is nothing to worry about.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No such thing. His wife come in before it was time to let go. She asked me what I was doing and I told her.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

C.P. closed up early and rushed home to tell his wife about the visitors. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

They hung there now, the Little Blessed One and his wife, on either side of the stuffed, mounted bison head. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Mother gained a sister of her own—Hamameh, the driver’s wife. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Even my wife couldn’t get me to come. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And you have not known a wife for thousands of years...” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He was the best son any mother could ever hope to have in a situation like this—a young father dying, so randomly, so violently, leaving behind a wife and three children. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Even though his wife and the kook claimed that the senility routine was a front, he doubted that she would be able to write a letter like that. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lockton offered his arm again to his wife, and this time, she took it. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bull had promised Lillian that he would not get drunk, but she was not a young wife and she had heard such promises before. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

My wife had one f or us, but I get by without one. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My boss’s wife, when she had the time and the inclination to talk, would tell me many interesting things. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wanted to come, but your wife said I should hold down the fort.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Although he was looking out the window, he did not miss a word the doctor and his wife were saying. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

"Now my sweet," said the innkeeper's wife, "you come over here and make yourself comfortable." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

No imaginable committee would ever sanction such a marriage even if Katharine, Winston’s wife, could somehow have been got rid of. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

September 13, 2006: Father shot wife in back of head while she slept, killing her instantly. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He missed his wife and his three small children, and she missed him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Youzek and his wife had survived by hiding with friends, and they had taken in another family, the Gamzers, who had survived the same way. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I found my wife at the kitchen sink and told her the good news. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I very much wanted to see Adelaide, his wife, and their children, as well as Yusuf Dadoo, who was now living there and representing the Congress movement. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I couldn’t live with my wife and children in a men’s hostel, mei baas,” Ndlamini said. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

C.P. arrived home a couple of hours before dawn to find his wife, Mary, still awake, sitting up in bed. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

After all, it's why he'd left his American wife behind and made the long voyage home to Nazi Germany. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Instead, he quickly rattled off the names of his mother, his wife, and even his dog. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

His wife was a magician with a needle and thread. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Their king, Alcinoüs, was a good, sensible man who knew that his wife Acrete was a great deal wiser than he and always let her decide anything important for him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some say they lost little ones, too, and there’s nothing worse in the world, you could live as long as Methuselem’s wife but you never get over it. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Come,” the father said, “have some tea. My wife will bring out some cakes and snacks.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“You are his wife and I am his friend.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The afternoon papers announced that he would attend Our American Cousin with General Grant and their wives—the Grants declined the invitation after the newspapers had been printed. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

He needed a walk that day, and needed walks for many days following, to work out what he’d done and why, how he had forgotten his child while aiding his wife. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“My wife and I were very proud of those games. I’m so glad you have fond memories of them.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

There was left in the house, then, none but the uncle and his wife and son and Ching and the laboring men, besides Wang Lung and his youngest son and the fool. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Do you know that saying, about a wife’s ankle? Being tied to her husband’s?” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He exchanged dark looks with his wife, Petunia. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“I wanted to, but my—” “But your wife didn’t want to because she was scared, right? The guidebook said it was best to stay on the resort grounds.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

My wife and I sat with him at the kitchen table and watched him eat five Boston cream doughnuts, which he washed down with two glasses of milk. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

"Snow, my wife called me before she ate her fingers, but I say Bolton." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

When Mr. Allen came home at lunchtime, his wife told him that he had to call Bud Lawrence. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, really, what could be said, what needed saying, when you’d shoved the barrel of your gun into your wife’s mouth? A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

You were supposed to be my wife, to bear me children with silver hair and purple eyes, to keep the blood of the dragon pure. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

On April 14, 1865, President Lincoln and his wife attended a play at Ford's Theatre in Washington. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Herbert's wife clung to me and sobbed hysterically as I led her out of the visitation room with her family tearfully following. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

His wife watched in horror as two undercover cops appeared, trained their pistols on him, and told him to freeze. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He and his South African-born wife, Norma, and their four-year-old son, like most whites, have an entourage of servants. But they treat them well.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“After all, he does look a good deal like a mouse,” said Mr. Little to his wife. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

And I was becoming known for being someone’s wife and as someone involved with politics, which made it doubly and triply weird. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They reach womanhood when they turn thirteen, just like boys reach manhood, and then they’re women and they become wives. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

George Weston, after all, was only a man—poor thing—and his wife made full use of every device which a clumsier and more scrupulous sex has learned, with reason and futility, to fear. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

I envision the future day when this campaign is finished, and we grown older and commenced men of means—with wives of our own, and children, and farms, perhaps, laid about with barns. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

My wife didn't want me to go, though. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door opened softly, and Zeebo’s wife’s head appeared around it. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

My step was lighter as I returned to the car where my wife was waiting. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Martin’s final bad omen happened that morning: A mob strung up a husband and wife who hid two colored boys in their barn. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

That terrible day in Africa, just one week after his wife had died, he hadn’t known. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Yard boys scared that a single gesture near the planter’s wife could leave them hanging from an oak tree. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Are you in earnest? Do you truly love me? Do you sincerely wish me to be your wife?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got a family. And my wife’s still weak after the baby.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The story ended with the man sitting on a mountain of pearls, knife in hand, weeping helplessly into the cup with his beloved wife’s slain body in his arms. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

My wife had come from New York to join me, and we were invited to a Texas ranch for Thanksgiving. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

And though the rain fall and the floods come and the winds blow, the good wife’s house will stand. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gaston, her husband, took care not to antagonize her, although since that fatal noon when he got off the train he realized that his wife's determination had been provoked by a nostalgic mirage. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“It’s in the living room,” his wife said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What name you think they call my wife when they take her to another man for his own? What?” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“What in the world?” his wife demanded when he came back to the bedside. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The cars lurch forward and Otto jumps in next to his wife. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a move that Tisquantum apparently had not anticipated, Bradford dispatched Hobamok’s wife to Massasoit's home to find out what the sachem was doing. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He should drop one wife, I guess, but for sure he’d drop the older one, and she already looks sad enough as it is. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He reached Murphy in his kitchen, where he was chatting with his wife. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One night, while talking to his wife about his life, he used the word “trapped.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“If I hadn’t seen the doctor pull him out of my wife with my own eyes, I’d never believe he’s my son.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Two other Navy wives passed her without so much as a glance as they sprinted toward the ladies’ room. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Never argue with your wife about hostility when she’s a certified Freudian. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She’ll understand when you tell her about the baby. My wife is feeling poorly. And I thank you for telling me about the water.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But on hurrying back to Prague to make arrangements for the move, he found his wife seriously ill once again. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I don’t like my wife riding the subway because I worry she’ll get followed by someone just like that.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But he’d seemed particularly tired of late, to the point that his wife had suggested that morning that he skip work and stay home. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

For one thing—as he’d been telling his wife all week—the European powers would never let the Turks enter the city. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“You have to do what I tell you because you are my wife, and besides I’m not well.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

At three in the afternoon, he left for Seoul, departing early enough, his wife said, to continue his preparations at Kimpo International Airport. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Vaughan, I recalled, had told his wife that he had stashed evidence on the murders—as well as money for the family—in a secret hiding place. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Most people knew her merely as William Friedman’s wife, who worked from home on the side. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

As an aside to his wife, he said, “If any of the troops give you any lip, there will be a summary court-martial when the Great Santini gets home.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sooner or later I go to bed, and my wife asks me what time it is. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was watching his facial expressions, and I said to my wife, ‘This is Peck’s Bad Boy,’” Ekman said. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

He was in Baton Rouge with his wife Abeer, he said, and they had no place to stay. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Odin kept his own counsel, but he told Frigg, his wife, mother of the gods, that Balder’s dreams were true dreams, and that there were those who meant their favorite son harm. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

He did not bother to disguise the blind man’s trap, as it was hot and he was eager to get home to his new wife. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

But just as I am convinced that my wife’s life while I was in prison was more difficult than mine, my own return was also more difficult for her than it was for me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taking a man as thrall or a woman as a salt wife, that was right and proper, but men were not goats or fowl to be bought and sold for gold. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I left a piece of paper on that table. It’s my wife’s phone number. She’s in Arizona. It’s the only way—” He moved toward the house, smiling politely. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Call me old-fashioned, but I think a wife who discovers her husband is in hock to the tune of five thousand pounds is entitled to some pretty bloody straight answers.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He and his wife had dressed him for the part he would play—a drunken farmer. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered young wives who got ill from sadness when their men went to the Bahamas or the Dominican Republic to cut sugarcane and were never heard from again. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

But Tree-ear barely had time to wonder before Min’s wife appeared in the doorway. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

From some need of his own, Don Bernardo pretended his wife was just under the weather rather than suffering from dementia. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

That piano had once belonged to Pacheco’s wife, who could play it like a nightingale can sing. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is he who killed his wife and sons!’ Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I got this at the marketplace this morning,” he said, “from Mentor’s daughter. She’ll make someone a good wife. Is she as pretty as her voice makes her sound?” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

For the new wife, though, these sounds were just the sound of a bird in a tree. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to go to the police. I get the feeling my wife is being held against her will.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Even as he spoke, he lifted his semiconscious wife into his arms, blankets and all, and strode back toward the house. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And she did her work alone and spoke no more than she could escape speaking with the wife of Wang Lung’s uncle, and she never spoke at all to Cuckoo. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The girl’s godparents are a trustworthy Mexican house painter and his wife. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He had a good wife and strong boys. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was embarrassed to be seen undressed, but she was my wife and I couldn’t allow her to be ashamed in front of me. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

All York wanted was to be close to his wife, who lived in Kentucky. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

His wife turns gold rings on her fingers. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Lee hesitated a moment before shouting to his wife to take care of the baby and rushing out of the house. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The oldest man in the room—he looks like he’s around seventy—says he married his first wife because her name tasted like peanut butter. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“No. But those Meyers and the man from the bank with his wife and daughters ” “He cashes my sight drafts,” I said. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Why may she not choose her husband? She is accustomed to being the wife of a king and would not be content with less,” I said, echoing what I had heard Elnora say before. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Bechareh, she probably constructs tales as a way of mourning the loss of her family, was the collective surmise of most of the wives. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

It seemed urgent to me not only to reiterate my earlier lies—about my kinship with Daumier, about my deceased wife, about my small estate in the South of France—but to elaborate on them. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Finally his father spoke, his big rough hand stroking his wife’s hair and his eyes downcast watching the motion. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

She also told him that she did not approve of Lyell’s idea that he and Charles should dine every evening at the Athenaeum Club, leaving the wives at home alone. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The senior wife was a hyena with many children, and the junior was a skinny jackal with only one little boy.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My wife—my ex-wife—said I was being crazy not to read it.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I am your brother’s wife. You must tell me about my father.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But to tell Elmer Ren, with a sick wife and too many children and his life tied up in 320 acres of Montana prairie, that he must leave all behind...that was a different story. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

At first he called only for help—the second night he must have had some delirium, he talked with his wife and his children, we often detected the name Elise. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slobbered at the mouth and moaned and screamed and ran at his wife and children, trying to catch them and bite them. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What’s so complicated about you lying and taking advantage of my sister? You were never going to leave your wife, were you?” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He was also lucky to have a devoted and observant wife. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Suspicious, self- righteous, spiteful, he was like a wife that must be got rid of. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Armistead, his voice never strong, bawled hoarsely, with all his force, “All right now, boys, for your wives, your sweethearts, for Virginia! At route step, forward, ho!” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see how Miss Love could cheer up a man whose wife was short of breath for four years, dying for ten days, and dead for three weeks. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“I have a request to make of the honorable potter’s wife,” he said. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

As the violence in Soweto intensified, my wife permitted a group of young men to act as her bodyguards as she moved around the township. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the word, last year, about my wife's car wreck. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the one hand—superstition and old wives’ tales; on the other hand—the scientist, trying to solve the puzzles and find the answers. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

But to his uncle’s wife he said nothing, guarding his purpose from her. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“But it’s not Marcellus, Brady. It’s his wife. And their little boy.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Chronically ill, having recently lost two young children, his wife was described as “stupid, sulking, lonely, melancholy.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

From there he headed home, where his wife informed him that she would need the pickup truck, since her mother was taking the other car to the bingo hall. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

To check whether she’s staring, I test her with a long gaze to the left of the bleachers, where Dad and his wife Linda are barbecuing. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

To that end, I had my obliging wife drive me to southwestern Massachusetts and drop me on the trail near Stockbridge for a three-day amble through the Berkshires. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder if his wife picks them out—some of them are really sharp. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Pastor Tom’s wife must have washed his clothes before they sent him home because everything was clean and pressed like he was going to church instead of coming home after half a week away. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now, in her bed, his wife Iran opened her gray, unmerry eyes, blinked, then groaned and shut her eyes again. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Murenga’s wife cleared away some porcelain statues of white girls in long frilly skirts. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I realized how many things the Pigman and his wife must have shared—even the fun of preparing food. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

The game of husband and wife was even less fun than she supposed. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The game never lasted long before they switched to husband and wife, practicing kisses and arguments in the cellar of Ethel’s house. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“His wife heard the shot and ran to the window, holding their baby. Then came the second shot.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Isn’t your wife in for questioning today? Er—what’s happened to you? Why are you so wet?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Her stuff. The artist was his wife. He killed her dream the night of her debut.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

His next known movement was in 1786 when, abruptly and mysteriously, he turned up in Philadelphia with his wife and eight children, apparently on the verge of destitution. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I was relieved to hear that the printer, lnkstained, had fled the city with his wife and children. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deborah turned to look at them, and in that moment Gabriel saw, as though for the first time, how black and how bony was this wife of his, and how wholly undesirable. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Dear girl, you don’t know a thing,” the judge’s wife say. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He’d come in at the same time she had and already missed his wife and two young sons terribly. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Patch-Withers was pretty gassy, and his wife, and ...” “Yeah. And?” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then everyone thought I was insane to get involved with a married man, let alone a married man whose wife was highly unstable, and I’ve proved them wrong on that one. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put his arms around his wife, leaned on her, and tried to put his weight on the sore foot. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deke didn’t sound the slightest bit excited, but I certainly was, and so was my wife when I told her. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

"He was sending his wife back to the Eyrie, and his son to be fostered on Dragonstone ... he meant to act ..." "So you poisoned him first." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

At once he let go of the handles and again he stood in his own living room, beside his wife and the empathy box. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Thank you, we can’t spare any more time. Good day, young lady. I’ll tell my wife I saw you safely here.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

She went on to say how Jalil’s wives had called her an ugly, lowly stone carver’s daughter. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Esther and Max Hartlieb.'' “And they are not our children,” her husband stated firmly, which immediately earned him an angry look from his pointy-nosed wife. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“So you were never going to leave your wife, right?” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Shortly after that, she resigned from her job as a journalist, finding that “the duties of wife and mother were a profession in themselves.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“This was once the seat of the Pandava brothers and their wife, Draupadi. You mere pinches of mortality are nothing compared to them. You cannot possess me!” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“And that wife of yours, she too needs an occasional beating. You are spoiling your women, Alhaji. No good will ever come of that.” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was thousands of miles from my wife, sitting in a room that felt like a holding cell, waiting for a man I had seen murder two people that same day. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And when Dutchy showed an interest in the dusty upright piano the widower’s wife used to play, he got it tuned and found a teacher to come to the farm to give him lessons. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“The way I look at it is this,” he told his wife. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Twelve lire for ten. It’s not worth it. My wife lost twenty lire.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The funeral director’s wife played some songs on the organ and then Angela sang her heart out; there were real tears running down her face. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Olivia gets sick from, the food prepared by any of the chiefs wives. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Has she,” asked the Doctor, with a smile, “has she been associating of late with a circle of pseudo-intellectual women—super-spiritual superior beings? My wife has been telling me about them.” The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

He was wearing white linen trousers with a blue jacket styled like a sailor’s, which went beautifully with the blue skirt and white jacket of his wife’s tailored suit. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It would take just one Marine wife or one Marine kid to start working for the Russkies and every move the Corps made would be transmitted to Russia twenty-four hours in advance.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t figure on Dr. Spock giving me any good advice about old men who couldn’t go on without their wives. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to take Joe Carp and Frank Reilly out to lunch to celebrate, but Joe had to buy some things for his wife, and Frank was meeting his cousin for lunch. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“My dear daughter in heart,” she called Williams wife. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I pray that I will make you a good wife and give you strong sons to follow after you.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I do not know any details of her love affair—who the man was or what the circumstances, whether it was religion or a living wife, a disease or a selfishness. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He put a glass of water on his wife's head and shot her just above the eye. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

She was positive Helen was Zeebo’s first wife, and was equally sure she was his present wife, but how many were there in between? Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to be Aron’s wife, no matter what he is.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not going to be a farmer and you’re not going to be a farmer’s wife.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

As Riefenstahl’s influence continued to grow, Goebbels increasingly struggled to comprehend how a woman could occupy such a situation, much as he struggled to understand why his wife objected so strenuously to his many affairs. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“You know if they had come even one second after you were pronounced man and wife, they would not touch you?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Shin heard from other repairmen that the foreman’s wife, while out working in the woods, had stumbled upon a secret execution in a mountain gorge. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The Walasi-Yi was run by an Englishman named Justin and his American wife, Peggy, and we fell into a running conversation with them as we drifted in and out through the afternoon. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

What joy each time Mrs. Jones says to him, “Professor Ganguli, your wife is on the phone.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Loving—being a wife—that door is closed to me. After Mr. McAllister, I promised God.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

When my wife would bring our little son, he was forever wanting to pick them. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not your mother. You are not the daughter of your father’s wife, as anyone with eyes can clearly see.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

When the new wife had risen completely out of the sand, Kumalo went forward and embraced her tenderly. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

He looked upon me kindly, said good-bye to me, and then he took my place in the canoe with his young wife. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“My wife tells me that I’m doing fourteen-hour days,” Miele mused one afternoon, slicing cold chicken and piling it with fresh tomatoes on toast. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

In regard to his family, Mr. Clutter had just one serious cause for disquiet—his wife’s health. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Deepest gratitude to the honorable potter’s wife,” he said. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The Emperor had overruled his wife after watching Aurelia and Boots at play on several occasions. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Then I left, racing toward his house to calm his wife. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Jam’s father, Aloe, was the one who was good at getting through to his wife when she was working. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Bears of high rank had the best places, and there was a special enclosure for the she-bears, including, of course, Iofur’s wives. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Come on,” Mr. Levy said to his wife. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

His wife and his boys go up and visit with him for a while and then leave him alone, and only the minister has been allowed up. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he kissed his wife absent-mindedly on one side of her nose and waved to the children and went away to the City. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

The marriage and the decision to spend a few months in Macondo to please his wife had obliged him to postpone it. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He knew that wherever the name came from, it had something to do with his wife and was, like the emotion he always felt when thinking of her, coated with disgust. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He grimaced in shame—unlike him, his wife was afraid of nothing. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Mr. Diggory looked as though he was going to say something angry, but his wife laid a hand on his arm, and he merely shrugged and turned away. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

High on hashish and mast on French wine, they struck and killed a Hazara husband and wife on the road to Paghman. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Polly and Amari dashed back several more times to get the rest of the food for supper for Mr. Derby and his wife. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He glanced over at where his wife would be sitting, her head leaning back against the seat, the wind blowing her hair. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

I think I probably woke he and his wife up, because it took them a helluva long time to answer the phone. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

So I picked up the phone and called my wife, Ann, and told her, “I am going to write a book called The World Is Flat.” The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Piper remembered what Hercules had told them: his first family dead, his second wife dead after being tricked into poisoning him. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But, unfortunately, Mr. Sexual Awakening's wife had a 3D ultrasound picture. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Clinging to the illusion of their marriage, she concluded, “Well Ernest I must close my short letter. Hoping to hear from you soon. Good by from your wife, Mollie Burkhart.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Whatever their story, these wives were appendages, roses climbing on the trellises. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another was fanning his wife, a woman with yellow skin and rows and rows of jewelry hanging round her neck, gold pendants and beads and corals. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“What are the two daughters of Eve whispering about?” said Aslan, turning very suddenly on Polly and the Cabby’s wife, who had in fact been making friends. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

When the fisherman finds out about his new wife’s old lover, he sets out to sea in his little boat though he knows that a storm is brewing. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vasilisa sat to his right; the tsarina, his wife, sat to his left. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“His wife died a month ago, and his business has been a wreck since. Now that he’s visiting you, can we expect a turnaround?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“I have a wife. I have a daughter.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

All I knew was I was forty years old and I didn’t mean to be here when I was forty, locked with this genius shrink wife and this balloon son. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Weeds had gone untended while his wife had neared her time, given birth, and died. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This provided great merriment amongst the men and some blushing on the part of their wives. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although the body was never recovered, all the evidence points to the defendant: the trunk of his car was filled with twine, bloodstained hammers, torn items of his wife’s clothing, and such like. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Look at what people are going around saying, Úsula,” he told his wife very calmly. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The final scene of the vignette showed him pulling into his driveway that night and being arrested in front of his disbelieving wife and kids. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why had he married a woman who was not intelligent only to turn around and tell her that his wife was not intelligent? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I want him to organize against high prices,” Nealson told his wife. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The headman nodded in appreciation, and one of his wives received the bundle Lee removed from his pack. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

El Jefe keeps all his girlfriends out in his country house, where his wife never goes. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Saturn was originally one of the Numina, the Protector of the Sowers and the Seed, as his wife Ops was a Harvest Helper. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We should have gone to Greece. In Greece a husband wouldn’t make his wife go out and get a job.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Member wives look exhausted and tired of smiling. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

My wife, Margot, is of course asked all the time how she put up with me working at prison, how the household endured it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His wife is one of the three Graces in the Iliad, called Aglaia in Hesiod; in the Odyssey she is Aphrodite. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

At home that evening, Sibanda once again declined the offer of food which his wife made. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

All he knew was that he had been assured by both the missionary and the Homeland Security men that they would call his wife. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She had told the other members and everybody knew it, including the elder’s wife! Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Tea Cake hurried on back to his new wife. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

He didn’t mention his wife, not even in passing, but he wrote that he spoke Spanish to his little girl so she’d be able to talk with her grandmother someday. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d see it in DeeDee, the tough girl on my neighborhood block, and even in Dandy, my own grandfather, who could be rude and pushy even with his own wife. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I remember that Mariana doesn’t like the Doctorita, that she’s often told her son his wife is too fat, too dark-skinned, too bossy—far from the slim, fair, gentle wife he deserves. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Years ago, the police chief’s wife stuck a Post-it on the fridge to tell him she was leaving and that she was taking the dog. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

And she was not just a mother, she was also a wife to Arthur Burke, who had two sons of his own. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They were fully aware that they could only inherit their uncle’s fortune if “closer” relatives—such as a wife or child—are proven not to be rightful heirs. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

"No tips, Judge, please, not after all you've done for the wife and me." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned to Coach Warner and reported, “My wife thinks they’re from his soccer team. The Tangerine Middle School soccer team.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The great secret, known to internists and learned early in marriage by internists’ wives, but still hidden from the general public, is that most things get better by themselves. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The responsibility of raising her fell to her older brothers, and her father's other wives. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

And what he did for the farm implements, his wife, O-lan, did for the house implements. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I do not know the woman in front of me, do not know what she suffered before coming to this house, no longer even know how she really came to be Madoc’s wife. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He founded the Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine in Norfolk, Virginia, with his late wife, Georgeanna. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I see your wife has forgotten the traditional humility of our foremothers. Or perhaps it is the teachings of the Catholics.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No one I know of. Maybe my wife, getting it fixed up. So they couldn’t be there exactly expecting you, now could they?” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

My image of these women was fuzzy, since there were none in Macún, where all the females were wives or young girls who would one day be wives. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Stick and I exchanged a glance at this unexpected twist—Dr. King's wife calling to see if we were okay. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

He was grateful to Edna for having come, her presence would be a comfort to his wife. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Long ago, somehow, some committee of scientists, prodded by footsore wives, found enough money to cover it with a layer of sand. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Insults were hurled: The philosophers called the greenwitches superstitious old wives, and the greenwitches retorted that not one of them was married. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When it happened I was in bed with my wife,” he recalled. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They walked it in circles several times, letting the merchant and his wife admire the shiny black spikes running down the length of its back, each one sharp enough to draw blood. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“They follow me and show respect. They do not look down in shame. They do not resist and turn the opposite way. You will be a good wife, mother, and daughter-in-law.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jose marched out of the station, He greeted us with a clenched fist, And while everyone applauded, His pretty wife he kissed. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He explained that he couldn’t spend the whole night at her place, because his wife called every day at six in the morning, from India, where it was four in the afternoon. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Admetus had just lost his wife in a very strange way. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was calling for his wife—your mother. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some were regulars, unbeknownst to their wives, while others would normally sooner be caught dead than set foot across his threshold. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you ever think about their wives and mothers? Or if they had children? Or if they liked to fish or enjoyed a stiff drink?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And wise and beautiful Draupadi, wife to the five brothers—what she wanted most of all was peace. I tried to grant her wish, but the closest I could muster was light.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

There leaning against a pillar, sat the man and never lifted up his eyes, but only waited for what his wife would say when she had seen him. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only problem with that legend: the warrior who learned the snake song had to sacrifice his wife for the power. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The retinue entered the hall after the king—first Blanche of Castile, followed by Queen Marguerite, King Louis’s wife, with their infant daughter in her arms. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

His wife stretched on the bed, uncovered and cold, like a body displayed on the lid of a tomb, her eyes fixed to the ceiling by invisible threads of steel, immovable. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not know where his wife was, but he presumed she must also be in a camp. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“For him, this is the kind of freedom that people always talk about for those who are suffering,” my father’s wife said. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Kit and Judith met a fair number of farmers and their wives traveling along South Road and ranging along the bank of the river. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Several miles farther south, on an isolated farm near Bryantown, Maryland, Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, his wife, and their four young children were also in bed. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Something put into my head that you cared for me; and I lost my senses. I forgot everything but a wild dream of your some way becoming my wife.” The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

Leroy flops around and tosses and turns, never mind his pregnant wife’s trying to sleep. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“But what about Daddy? I saw him,” Ophie said to her mother, quiet enough that the pastor and his wife couldn’t hear over the sound of the engine as it started up. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He grabbed his wife’s pack of cigarettes from the table and started searching for a lighter. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“That dog better not have fleas,” the rabbi’s wife said as she returned to the front room. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Having friends nearby would, as it developed, prove beneficial, especially since Gardar’s wife was a nurse. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The wife could not persuade him to go away and so she had to show him into the friend’s room. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Auntie Yeabu slipped away from the other wives and came to me. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The gate banged,” Candy said, and he went on, “Jesus Christ, Curley’s wife can move quiet. I guess she had a lot of practice, though.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gentle wife of his dreams waited up for him and had hot coffee and something nice to eat ready. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am thirty-nine, my wife is thirty-six, and our son is nine,” the man told Mengele. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

"Is good name, Dan Ares wife, moon of my life," he said. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Oh! I was demented, dreaming of wild, impossible things, recalling men who had set their wives free, we have heard of such things.” The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I think the only thing he loved as much as his late wife was Afghanistan, his late country. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You know that saying about a wife’s ankle?” she put in softly. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, if somebody came in buying too much of it for his wife or child, you got concerned, because somebody taking that much BC was mighty sick and probably dying. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did admire his wife, Lady Bird, though, who always looked like she wanted nothing more than to sprout wings and fly away. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Xhalal was reunited with Qendrim, his wife, and his daughter, and together they lived in the camp for three months, awaiting placement by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Kaede remembered that the King’s first wife had died more than a decade ago, but he had not remarried until last year, when he chose a much younger bride. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

When Estella miscarried a third time, the doctor spelled the consequences out more plainly: “Another pregnancy could kill your wife.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

At first she thought he was praying, but then she realized that he, like his wife, was crying. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He often asked about my wife, freely offering his aid in finding her more speech work with the city. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just look at yourself. Look at your beautiful American wife. Look at the many things you have, how you can go anyplace you want and speak your mind.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and his wife could dig themselves graves in the land and lie down in them and sleep. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Seeing my bewilderment she added, “They have wives. I would never approach them now.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

His wife whispered in his ear and twice forced him to change his verdict when she thought he was being too generous. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The fox took the fat duck home to his wife and babies, and the farmer was too late to prevent it. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

He also said that they had once belonged to his wife—and that was an interesting idea in itself, to think that the lonely old Professor had once had a wife. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I love animals. My wife and I both love animals, but...I’ve been going to the zoo by myself lately. I always go. Every day.” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

However, he was under oath to let his wife Eriphyle decide whenever there was a dispute between him and her brother. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The eyes of his wife and children were riveted upon me as if I were their saviour. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

How can a wife keep her husband’s household in order if she has never dirtied her own hands, Huang Taitai used to say as she introduced me to a new task. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Sen came to them in tidy ballpoint script, posted on an index card outside the supermarket: ‘‘Professor’s wife, responsible and kind, I will care for your child in my home.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

And Arthur could not fight in his wife’s quarrel, just as married people are not allowed to give evidence against each other today. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kino had wondered often at the iron in his patient, fragile wife. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t go in for that sort of thing. My wife takes the kids to the Greek church.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Igbo people marry all kinds of people. My cousin’s husband is Yoruba. My uncle’s wife is from Scotland.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I was lying to my wife about another woman, and the other woman knew it. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

His wife was a warm and friendly woman who was good for a piece of gingerbread any time we wanted to put the hustle on her. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Would a son in heaven have wives to take care of me when I am old? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Wang Lung stood watching them go across the court, his wife and his son, bearing gifts to the head of a great house. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

"Your god can keep his grace," said Lord Stannis, who did not share his wife's fervent new faith. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

After the press conference, Archbishop Tutu’s wife telephoned us from Johannesburg to say that we must fly there straightaway. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My lady wife’s favorite theory,” my father said. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Min’s wife took the jacket back and held it up before him. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

He left the next morning, well before the sun rose, with his wife and child still asleep in the bed. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

And the wife of the eldest son was correct and haughty and bowed only the least that could be considered proper for her position. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The dormouse explained in a shaky voice: “My family, sir. My mother, father, brothers, sisters, and my wife and two little ones. Oh please, sir, spare them, I beg you!” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He divorced his wife and married Victoria, who did not change her name. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Some of the passengers started to respond to the accusations and rush out to join the other men, their wives pulling on their arms begging them not to go. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“You can cook and keep a house, and you embroider as well as I do. Should a wife sit with a book and let the work go?” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The headstone marker bears her name and the dates of her life—no “loving memory,” no “beloved wife,” or “daughter,” or “mother.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see his wife’s face in the beads of sweat marching down his chin. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

It sounded to Polly that Mr. Derby admonished his wife almost as if he were speaking to a child, but he also seemed to dote on her. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look over at Jenna’s father, who is standing by his wife’s grave. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

On the path that led to the bridge lived huge, fat Flo and his beautiful wife. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back in the ward, he found his wife lying vanquished beneath the blankets like a desiccated old vegetable, wrinkled, dry and white, her enfeebled tissues absolutely still. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Mamá naturally agreed with Papá, but she insisted that Jackie also looked like my brother’s wife. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Baba hobbled next to me, the general and his wife beside their daughter. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You said his wife made him keep the name. Did you ever know his real name?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Putas, I guessed, lived in luxury in the city on the money that sinvergüenza husbands did not bring home to their long-suffering wives and barefoot children. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The wives pushed up against the sawhorses and then knocked them over to get at their men. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

His wife has to look after the farm. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we walked onto the verandah, my uncle’s wife came out, her face glowing as if she had polished it all her life. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Is that their custom? To change a wife’s name?” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

This gave Mr. van D. the idea of selling his wife’s fur coat. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Matthew, after working in the fields all day, forced his wife against her will to get some rest while he sat by his daughter’s bedside at night. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

He will return, and he will be avenged on any who dishonor his wife and son.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without looking at Anya, he said, “Goodbye, future wife,” and hurried out of the kitchen. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

From his shouted questions, Ann understood that Minnie had told him his wife was acting too friendly with the men who bought liquor at the house. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Pa's wife is nice, smart, and she believes women can run for president. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

His wife was, if anything, even more distant and suspicious. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Says he can’t even get his wife out of the studio long enough to take her to dinner. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

One evening he felt the need for a live model and directed his wife to march around the room. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

We tried using mine to call her back, but his wife’s phone kept ringing. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

That was how I learned to be an obedient wife. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grocer showed up, and the postmaster, and the principal of the village school, and the neighbor, Abu Mahmoud, who grew famous green beans, and all of their wives and babies and teenagers and cats. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

When Larry held his wife in his arms, her cheek against his heart, he was tall enough to see the top of her head, the dark tumble of her hair. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I saw a light on the north side. My wife went to the window and looked out.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But in that transitory moment when at last the pearl was about to be handed to him, like Orpheus or Lot’s wife, he had to look back to find Vera. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Comrade Pillai shut the door and returned to his wife and dinner. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He liked his children and was true to his wife. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lieutenant Scheisskopf’s wife mused and paused a moment to ponder dubiously. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I learned that young men were placing ads in the Gold Mountain News to find wives when my mother and father started answering them. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why was his wife cooking for another man? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

We his daughters and wife are not innocent either. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coming upon a black man out walking with his wife, they pursued him and beat him unconscious. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“Please, I shouldn’t be here. I committed no crime. But no one knows I’m here. I haven’t gotten a phone call. My wife thinks I’m dead. Can you call her?” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Supposing a man’s got his gun to your son’s head and ’nuther one at your wife. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The only way Aunt Consuelo celebrated was to go to a late Mass with the oldest children, Señor Fidencio, and his wife. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

"You have no wives, only con-cubines, and you have been well paid for every day and every ship." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was unfair, Zeitoun thought, how one lapse in eleven years could give his wife enough ammunition to needle him for the rest of his life. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Lieutenant Scheisskopf’s wife screamed suddenly, and began beating him ineffectually about the head with both fists. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He was more or less used to saying wife, to being called husband, whatever that meant. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

His economist friends thought he had lost his mind, but his wife supported him. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Side by side, drenched in his blood, we sat on the sofa, Anna and I. The wives, waiting for the ambulance. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had run away from her husband when he had taken a second wife. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The president told a photographer to back off and wait for his wife and me to finish talking. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I was no longer extrapolating; I was looping it through the core, freely talking about my life, suddenly breaching the confidences of my father and my mother and my wife. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

His name was Hat; he thought of his wife and decided he would tell her about the baby. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

One time, when I was telling him a story, his wife overheard us. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

His son was Odin’s father, whose mother and wife were frost maidens. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rock hands me the broom and grabs his wife’s arm. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

They often provided money to wives and relatives who would not otherwise have been able to visit us on the island. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry could not calm her down, and he could not abide the thought of losing a second wife, certainly not one as lovely as Thula. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Over the protests of his wife, who was alarmed at such a dangerous invention, at one point he was ready to set the house on fire. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Sam holstered his gun and did not look at his wife. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a nice little talent to have,” said the bishop’s wife; “it’s not everyone that can sketch. You must not drop it. Manderley must be full of pretty spots to sketch.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Stewing over my culpability, I put off calling Andy Harris’s partner, Fiona McPherson, and Rob Hall’s wife, Jan Arnold, for such a long time that they finally phoned me from New Zealand. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The interesting part of this story to me was that he mentioned his first wife. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The door to the roof opens and a neighbor emerges, the oldest of the three Bengali wives in the building. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“That would be my wife,” he said, then inwardly grimaced to have brought her, in any way, to the attention of the life-takers. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The vaccine was explained to the village chief and his wife. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

But when we reached the courtyard Haldar and his wife would not have her in the flat. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The midwife grabbed the miller’s screeching wife and slapped her—once, twice, three and four times. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Public sympathy sided with the patient and true Octavia, Mark Antony’s wronged wife. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Most Eskimo wives were left home these days; with the advent of gussak frozen foods, cooks were no longer needed for the hunt. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing left was the extra key I had made for my wife as an anniversary present long ago, and even that disappeared eventually. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“I’m Vera’s niece’s husband. My wife, Nancy, is her—” “Yes, yes, yes,” he said, and waved away the rest of my response. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He charms the druggist’s wife into giving him a broken earphone; he salvages a solenoid from a discarded doorbell, solders it to a resistor, and makes a loudspeaker. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I will, I will, you just holler when you’re through,” Bloom said, pulling himself not quite all the way out of his wife. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the brush fence were other brush houses, and the smoke came from them too, and the sound of breakfast, but those were other songs, their pigs were other pigs, their wives were not Juana. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

My wife and I give consent that our daughter Jenny Elizabeth Creighton, age 16, may marry Shadrach Yale, Union soldier, under the witness of a trusted friend, Editor Ross Milton. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

His wife said, at last, “Well, put on the light.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My wife—no matter where we went—she wore red lipstick as bright as a stoplight. I always wanted to kiss her, but I knew I’d get that junk all over my face.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He had grown used to the man and his wife, but the children were unfamiliar. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

As I walked out the bedroom door, my father’s wife’s ankle bells began to chime. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

She shows me pictures of his girlfriend, Arabel, who likes the color pink and carnations and who said she was going to be his wife. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was customary for Lakota wives and mothers to hand weapons to their husbands and sons. And they had a saying that gave them encouragement and reminded them of their duty as warriors.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Besides, I had come to understand that silence was my wife’s last refuge, not a mental illness as Dr. Cuevas said it was. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My status as a Dinka wife was now official. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wife gets us both drinks and leaves us alone. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now that the school was a refugee camp, now that his wife had died, he was going into the interior with his goats and his children. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But we didn’t have to test Dante’s mom about dogs in the house because just then, Mr. Quintana was at the front door and he was shouting at his wife, “Soledad, guess who’s here?” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Your wife has become a most valued member of our congregation. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Once again, Martin apologized for his wife’s behavior. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The man’s wife came to the door and stood silhouetted against the pale light of a kerosene lamp. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Count me out," his wife said from the couch where she'd finally given in to exhaustion. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

His wife stood in lamplight at the stove, pouring coffee. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walk outside and see my cousins’ cousin Freddy and his wife, Alicia, arrive as the piñata is being set up. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But I said the situation as it stood was unacceptable and my wife must be permitted to visit. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I understand why you're doing all this. Still, from a selfish point of view, I miss my wife. Hey, are you floating?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sandy had a free wife who lived about four miles from Mr. Covey’s; and it being Saturday, he was on his way to see her. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

Traditionally, the women prepare the meals and the husbands eat alone, or with their male friends, not with their wives. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Mr. Kleist began to whimper but his wife stepped in quickly to negotiate. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Unlike our village, only young men, some with wives and others single, live in the camp. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Waitress, waters for us and one joke for my wife. Skip the straw.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

"Lord Walder is well, my lady. He plans to take a new wife on his ninetieth name day, and has asked your lord father to honor the wedding with his presence." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He had to leave his family, a wife and two kids. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

So also did all the other children come, a few minus some wives or husbands or children, too. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lee’s wife grabbed the baby and carried him outside, while Lee rounded up a few valuables and some food and put them in a cloth sack. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Who is she, anyway, Brother Jack's wife, his girl friend? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I would advise a Caesarean operation. If it were my wife I would do a Caesarean.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

They’d show him about coming back there posing like he was good looking and putting himself where men’s wives could look at him. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Then I thought, how could this Doctor Gordon help me anyway, with a beautiful wife and beautiful children and a beautiful dog haloing him like the angels on a Christmas card? The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

His wife was supposed to be very beautiful, with fingernails one inch long. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“What would she have me do—worship it while it dug its fangs in my wife? Go now—forget it.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

His wife turned out to be a really tired, bosomy, Persian-looking blonde.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

I’ve broken into banks, warehouses, mansions, museums, vaults, a rare book library, and once the bedchamber of a visiting Kaelish diplomat whose wife had a passion for emeralds. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

His wife was Doris, a daughter of Ocean. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slant answered that he wanted to have many children, and a farm, and a plump, good wife. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He was silent for a moment; then he went on quietly, “I remember when I lost my wife. Work helped.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

His wife had asked him to be sure and collect the family cat, Courthouse Pete. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, he was on intimate terms with the Klan’s state leader, Bob Jones, and Jones’ wife, Sylvia, head of the women's auxiliary. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He could not sleep at night, thinking about the flower and what he had done to his wife. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a hundred valley houses fires started burning in combination wood and gas stoves, and men, dressed already in irrigation boots, quietly ate breakfast with their wives and children. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Father moved wife’s entire family from China to California to form support system. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He buried his face in his wife’s shoulder. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She spoke in anguish, but Jason rejoiced and raised her gently and embraced her, and promised her she would be his own wedded wife when once they were back in Greece. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It will be quite unnecessary for my wife to come here,” he said. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Noah slowly left the room as well, as his job was protector of the master and his wife. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

His wife answers, her hands shaking so intensely that it's obvious even from a distance. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He had a lovely wife and a lovely baby girl and two adorable stepdaughters. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sam Malloy had a number of fights with his wife and she cried all the time. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A survivor of the brutal pogroms that had spread across Russia over a decade ago, Motke had seen the faces of the dead and broken everywhere he looked—his wife, his friends, his neighbors. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She was Charles’s wife and Hal’s sister—a nice family party. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guardian of the lake was a lonely man, the more so because he had a wife. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore black trousers and a black vest over a clean white shirt, and he stood with his wife and their young son. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered second aunt with her cactus collection, fifth uncle with his beard, eighth uncle with that opium addict, socialite wife. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My son’s wife just had a baby boy.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

My uncle Pedro had lost his wife long before I was born and he had no children. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was killed by his daughters under the direction of Medea, Jason’s wife. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

"There was a garden party, too, we went to one summer," said the bishop’s wife. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I instructed that man to brutalize his wife. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The husband could have been a tennis pro, and the wife looked like a model. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Then more days had passed, more weeds had flourished, while he sat in the Field with his dead wife and infant. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In no way, madam, unless you be a priest, a magician, or a man of medicine. My wife is being devoured by a stomach worm.” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Could you please tell your wife to stop lying to the police about me? The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But a man like you—in public life—needs a wife who knows social business—who can entertain his influential business friends. I’m not that kind of a woman.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The antis used the same arguments they had used all along: Suffrage would destroy the home; it was “unwomanly”; mothers would neglect their children, and wives would divorce their husbands over political disagreements. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

S. L. and his wife of Los Angeles, California, tuned to The Mercury Theatre in time to hear the newsflash about the meteor. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Give them the dwelling that had been occupied by Felix and his wife. They have moved down to St. Augustine.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked toward the house, but neither Min nor his wife was in sight. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The man ran forward with his wife, the baby, and the two boys. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I open my eyes to see the sky is still dark but that Uncle Leang, his wife, Aunt Keang, and all the cousins are up. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She found that Bill’s wife already had arrived. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Later, he would often explain his reasoning to me: a glare from the constable, too many fond sighs from the young wives in town But sometimes he had no reason. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Well, your mother is a politician’s wife,” Fin said, smiling slightly. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He flew out to the coast, luckily without the wife, who is not fond of me. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

If there was no solution from Elizebeth before Christmas, Andresen felt “bound” to give the tiger skin to his wife instead. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Actually,” he said, as though continuing a conversation begun while Eleanor slept, “I cannot believe that my wife stirred up that storm, but I do admit that one more word about pure love...” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t put a reason for his dying in the letter to his wife. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He flattered her outrageously and joked with her about becoming one of his wives. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Good gracious me!” said Mr. Salt as he watched his fat wife go tumbling down the hole, “what a lot of garbage there’s going to be today!” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Manit and his wife had given them a place to stay, and they walked them to and from school every day. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He asked me to do the same when he married his Jewish wife, Rondee, the following year. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wives of the umunna took the leftover food, even the cooked rice and beans that Mama said were spoiled, and they knelt in the backyard dirt to thank Papa and Mama. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Nhamo knew that the spirit stayed close to one’s body, but Mambo’s poor wife had been burned. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dean and his wife of Highland, Wisconsin, were listening to dance music on their radio when it was interrupted by the newsflash about a Mars disturbance. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

During her whole existence as a Marine wife she had prepared her psyche for the possibility of a crash. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those romances always featured a love affair between a virginal white schoolteacher or preacher’s wife and a half-breed Indian warrior. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

His cousin s wife, Ojiugo, had once said, “English people will live next to you for years but they will never greet you. It is as if they have buttoned themselves up.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Mr. John Churchmouse tried to comfort his wife as best he could. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He indicated that he wanted me to come and have breakfast with him and his wife, on their rag. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wished that Major Madu had not invited them to dinner; he was not at all interested in meeting the man’s wife. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Eventually, Bobby leased a home in the same compound where Torre lived and, as a constant dinner guest, often enjoying the cooking of Torre’s wife. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But now, driven by his unrest from idleness and wishing to escape from the reproach of his own heart when he remembered that he had been unjust to his wife, he went toward this place. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Their wives came to our door daily with whole, dripping legs of something not ten minutes dead. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

King Arthur had asked hh wife to be kind to toe young man. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If your wife were a Wac, I could probably have her transferred here. But that’s the most I can do.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The masters favored seersucker on this mild first day, the wives broke out their hats. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Relatives warned him that she was too old for him and that he was much better off finding an age-appropriate wife without the baggage of three children. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Until the day she married him she never believed that she would ever consent to be his wife. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And tell me of my wife: how runs her thought, still with her child, still keeping our domains, or bride again to the best of the Akhaians?’ The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shortly before 7:30 on a Tuesday night in December, Mr. Larson straightened his necktie, kissed his wife, then turned to walk down the sloped aisle of the high school auditorium. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Victoria has a mustache bigger than mine. I don’t want to share a razor with my wife.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Then his wife had said to him, “Hush now, that’s not the sort of thing to be telling the gentleman.” The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

He is represented as falling in love with one woman after another and descending to all manner of tricks to hide his infidelity from his wife. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He might be running from the law, or maybe a charm had been placed on him, which would explain why every ordinary hex he tried to put on his wife failed to work. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I wondered what my life would have been like as Hari’s wife. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Early one morning that September his wife, Hazel, arose to find Ulbrickson already awake, sitting in his pajamas at an old typewriter, assiduously pecking at the keys. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

His wife motioned him to replace his teeth. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

And romantic stories: how Potter Palmer had been so in love with his wife, Bertha, that he had given her a luxurious hotel, the Palmer House, as a wedding present. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Amari thought about that for a moment and wondered how his first wife’s death had affected the master of the house. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he was. pleased when his second son’s wife bore also in her season, and she gave birth to a girl first as was fitting and it was seemly out of respect to her sister-in-law. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

But the next Sunday it snowed, so much so that Dev couldn’t tell his wife he was going running along the Charles. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Another man shouted, “Or poison his wife’s dog.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“I’ll just be a minute,” she said, after my father’s wife reintroduced her as his hospice physician. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Mr. Kapasi found it strange that Mr. Das should refer to his wife by her first name when speaking to the little girl. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Oakes and his wife have that big red dog that barks in the night.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The day after she left I asked Jack Kalantzakos what he knew about the places my wife would be, whether they were beautiful, striking, possibly dangerous. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told me he was a construction worker and tonight he was late getting home to his wife and infant son. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was the daughter of my father’s wife. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how a man in his right mind can go off and leave a wife and family to starve and shiver in a Limerick winter. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

On Sunday the farmer and his wife went to church and Quentin went upstairs, found a set of car keys, and took off in a pickup truck. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Holmes and Yoke had stayed at the Walker House: “G. Howe and wife, Columbus.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He was still a teacher, a heralded one, but she was no longer a teacher’s wife. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Mr. Castleman was the renowned neighborhood baker, and his wife managed the front of the store. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Still the wife’s brother muttered that the husband was a lion disguised as a man and still he refused to do anything with his brother-in-law. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“You wrote the letter to Lieutenant Carroll’s wife?” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had to be his wife who finally did tell him. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, my heavens, what a terrible thing!” his wife said, hands on her cheeks, gaping at the fire. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Anyway, we lived for the next two and a half years in Queens, sharing a house of two small apartments with Brother John Ali and his wife of that time. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But reckless greed carried them all away to plunder the rich bottomlands; they bore off wives and children, killed what men they found. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, then, why didn't he buy himself an audio-Seashell broadcasting station and talk to his wife late at night, murmur, whisper, shout, scream, yell? Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your wife, she never loved you,” Bodega blurted as Vera buried her face in Bodega’s shoulder. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I scolded her then, telling her she couldn’t speak to my wife that way if she wanted to keep living in our house. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He already had a visitor: Cora, the unfortunate wife of old Sutic. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

One look at our cowboy’s wife, arms, lips, eyes contorted into knots, and we repack. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“I must be mad. He has a beer belly and Dracula teeth and a wife and children and he’s old.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I’ve even prayed for God to make me more fit to be a wife. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was not a delegate to the World Anti-Slavery Convention, but she sat with the wives of delegates and shared the female delegates’ “humiliation and chagrin.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

If he thought his wife was pregnant with another man’s child . . . only he can’t have done. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s that wife of his’ doing,” Big Ma said. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

It was only about five blocks away, but I didn’t want him to have to walk late at night with his wife and his two kids in our neighborhood. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“They said they got my wife and she part alive,” he told me years later. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Muslim children did likewise at school, and Muslim wives and mothers interrupted their chores to join the world’s 725 million Muslims in communicating with God. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night Royal and Cora sat in the front row next to Mingo and his family, the wife and children he had rescued from slavery. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Maytag had a look of eager excitement on his face, Hoover seemed alarmed, his wife disgusted. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

She was irritated by his comment about an intelligent person because it was, it had to be, about his wife, and she wanted to ask why he was telling her that. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The shopkeeper’s wife said there would be no trouble along this road. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The death of his daughter, the haunting face of his wife each day at the trial, the realization that the evidence against him was piling up—it was too much to withstand. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But I don’t tell attorney Fitzgerald that part—about how my father’s wife and children are his greatest regret because we got in the way of the life he dreamed for himself. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Aunt Keang tells Meng he is the head of our family now and needs a wife to help look after us while he works. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hitler Youth boys received training that prepared them for military life, whereas girls were trained to become good wives and mothers. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Even though I had put on the earring, I refused to admit that I was seriously considering taking the body back home to his wife and kids. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

She came into the house and kow-towed three times before the fisherman and the old man and his wife. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was not just shelter, just anonymous wife and children that he wanted, just as he did not want just wedding. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

But a taste for luxury goods did not stop Gross, an accountant, from scoffing as David paid thirty dollars for a box of Godiva chocolates for his wife. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

His wife handed their baby down to him, then hopped into the dust herself. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has a wife now, who has come from India, and a little boy. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s okay, Starr. My wife’s a surgeon, and I’m a detective.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Phelps’s husband learned that Anthony had helped his wife escape, and he accused her of abducting his child, but Anthony refused to give him any information about their whereabouts. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The wives demanded that he throw her out. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

There was nothing for their husband to do but build a second house, one for each wife and the children of each wife. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day, they would contact your wife and say, “You have permission to visit your husband tomorrow.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon I watched him shout at his wife, May, for what seemed ten straight minutes as they sat inside their white sedan. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the separate kitchen at the back, his wife pours basins of hot water for us to wash. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“There are a few young wives in town. A scattering of daughters.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Of course it’s a baby,” said his wife. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Before I started to work in the museum, Louis and his wife Mary took Gillian, another girl who worked at the museum, and me on an expedition. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the late afternoon, Howard and his wife left the house. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He had gone across the river, hunting for a nutmeg tree to make a paste of nutmeg and fresh garlic for Chella, his wife, as she lay dying of tuberculosis. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lincoln replied to the last words he would ever hear his wife speak, “She won’t think anything about it.” Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I beg your pardon, truly. The child, then, is in the position of Eve, the wife of Adam, the mother of us all, and the cause of all sin.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Everything with Bernabe’s wife was always pretty much the same from one day to the next. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the junior wife took the plates away and brought—Nhamo had to think hard to remember the word—cake. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Would you like to come live in America with me and my wife?” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was fond of books and taught his wife her letters. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

When he thought of death now, he always thought of his wife, and when he thought of his wife he always thought of losing her. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I mean, that wife of his—Mr. Pignati’s wife—looked like she didn’t take anything with her to California. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Madoc, who once thought his own wife and child were dead. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He shakes his head and asks the sergeant’s wife is there any chance of a cigarette. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Polly knew at once that it was the Cabby’s wife, fetched out of our world not by any tiresome magic rings, but quickly, simply and sweetly as a bird flies to its nest. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

They included an Egyptian scientist and his wife, also on their way to Mecca for the Hajj, who insisted I go with them to dinner in a restaurant in Heliopolis, a suburb of Cairo. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can stay with me. I have an extra room. My wife left for a few weeks.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

When Ptolemy I started to show evidence of favoring succession to one of his younger sons, the future Ptolemy II Philadelphus, Demetrius opined in favor of the interests of Eurydice, the old king’s first wife. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Though I cannot say the same for the voices of Uncle Abdullah and his wives. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

His current household consisted of his most recent wife and his three youngest children. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He cut on a lamp at a bedside table and shook his wife gently. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I always thought a single marker joining the graves of a man and wife looked like the head of a double bed. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

When she came back, my father’s wife handed me a tall glass of something that smelled as though it had rum in it. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

After they were man and wife, I heard him whisper, ‘Loma Baby, what did I do?’ Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“What happened?” he asked, in the placating tone used for a child, as if humoring his wife’s madness would make it go away quickly. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

No one else could campaign as Barack Obama’s wife. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Each morning Sibanda would sneak off to his food tree and sing to it about the greediness of his wife and family. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

So I ended up just carrying him over my shoulder, like men always carry their wives in the old-time movies when they first get married. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“How the hell did you find me here?” he asked his dead wife. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

How could she be so stupid to believe he was actually going to leave his wife for her? I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

A message from his wife caught his attention. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The King gets sick, all the wives would be letting their hair go and eating sweets day and night to wreck their figures. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like a holy obligation, part of what makes her a wife and mother. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The farmer’s wife I usually deal with is just setting up her booth and complains that I have been going elsewhere. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

At one point he accused his wife of trying to poison him. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The filial son, offering his wife Cammy in sacrifice, whispering I’m sorry as men drew their muddy fingers down her skirt. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whose new wife always seemed to suffer emergencies at the last minute that kept him from visiting more often, especially now that the baby was born. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“After the 15th,” he told his wife, “I shall not be so busy.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She had wondered as she was dialing Minerva what Jaimito would do when he came home and found his wife and his pickup missing. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carefully reaching into the bag, he took the bird out and held it before his wife. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

He had married on the rebound from the rotten time he had in college, and Frances took him on the rebound from his discovery that he had not been everything to his first wife. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

This second wife came from a great family. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think your father has in him, magnified, the things his wife lacks. I think in him kindness and conscience are so large that they are almost faults. They trip him up and hinder him.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Never been there—the stories are so dismal, I’m liable to lose my temper and make my wife a widow.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The husband and wife were a pretty nice old couple--very witty and all--but I couldn't get too interested in them. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he said, “I can't come on Sunday until midafternoon,” or “I have to leave early today,” all of which she knew were about his wife, but they did not talk further about it. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

On New Year's Eve 1957, while he was overseas, his wife and only child were killed by a drunk driver in an automobile accident. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then attend to it, Cattermole, and if my office is not completely dry within an hour, your wife’s Blood Status will be in even graver doubt than it is now.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The master left for London with much muttering on the part of his wife. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am just good as an explorer and nothing else,” he wrote to his wife, Emily. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

She’d teased them about needing wives and girlfriends, and sometimes helped them find good ones. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

When she finished her speech, Justice Strauss turned to Count Olaf and asked, “Do you take this woman to be your lawfully wedded wife?” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

One Bay Area sports scribe took to calling him the “sphinx of Berkeley” and wondered if he even so much as said hello to his wife in the evening these days. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Yes, your mother works hard. I love my wife and I love my children.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thinks that the man who offered the chair expressed surprise that Lou had a wife. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Roosevelt, in her day the most outspoken of presidents’ wives, had worked tirelessly since coming to Washington to promote racial equality. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

For the love of my children after several months I went to find them, located them in San Francisco, my wife not knowing. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Ah, come on, sugar, loosen up, will ya?" his wife coaxed him. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Husbands and wives and children clasp hands, tilt their heads heavenward, and release their music. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike his wife, she had reminded him of its intellectual challenges. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

If he has a wife, his death will mess her up like it messed Jay up. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

"Is that why you called me here, Lord Stark? To pose me riddles? Or is it your intent to seize me, as your wife seized my brother?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When your wife says she’s leaving you, whether it’s for a few days or months or forever, you don’t object. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

What he called his wife, once; maybe still does, but really it’s a generic term. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I've been here too long. I want to get away. My wife and I want to go west." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

He was in his home in New Orleans and beside him he could hear his wife Kathy breathing, her exhalations not unlike the shushing of water against the hull of a wooden boat. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Rekh is a kinsman of his brother’s wife. You will meet me, then? Perhaps at the big tree by Aba the potter’s. Then we will go on together. Zau’s shop is near the palace.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The king looked at them for a long moment, then turned his eyes on his wife. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“If you were a normal wife, it might be worth it for me to be working all the time.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I recognized a few faces—the reverend and his wife and a few people who had called at the Lockton home. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was preparing to leave the next morning at three o’clock, but Arthur and his wife insisted I remain for breakfast, which I did. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They began to cherish their husbands and wives, protect their children, repair their homes and in general band together against the devil in their midst. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

We walked eighteen miles to Front Royal, where my wife was to pick us up in two days if she managed to find her way by car from New Hampshire in an unfamiliar country. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Just in case there might be any doubt, some time after Tycho’s death several of his relatives signed a legal declaration that his children were legitimate and that their mother had been his wife. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

And the little line about myself at the bottom, saying who Maxim had married as his second wife, and how he had just given the fancy dress ball at Manderley. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He enjoyed listening to Nately, whose maudlin, bittersweet lamentations mirrored much of his own romantic desolation and never failed to evoke in him resurgent tides of longing for his wife and children. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I wondered what my wife Betty, and our little daughters, were going to say when they saw me with a beard, when I got back to New York. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that very same moment, the thieves disappeared, and the only sound Mr. van D. could hear was the frightened pounding of his fatalistic wife’s heart. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Now everyone learned about the nasty trick the junior wife had played. The husband sent her back to her parents, and gave all her jewelry to the senior wife.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

White thought that he detected some element of remorse in him, as if he wanted to unburden himself, to protect his wife and children. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He was a short, dumpy man, and his wife fitted roughly the same description. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before they could figure his words, Fletcher informed them it was time for him to return to his wife: “My part is finished, my friends.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

"I lost my wife when she was forty-six. I lost my daughter when she was twenty-four. And you remind me to remember them?" We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Then sometimes I get problems at home. With three kids, my wife’s very nervous.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not like the way a wife loves a husband, but more like the way a sister protects a younger brother. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I grew up very poor and so did my husband,” said Wanda Brown, the fifty-eight-year-old wife of a retired planner for the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard who lives in Puyallup, Washington, near Tacoma. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

But I for sure knew, and it was my own grandfather’s wife I was hankering after, which seemed like an awful sin. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Before leaving, Vaughan informed his wife, who had recently given birth to their tenth child, about a hiding spot where he had stashed evidence that he had been gathering on the murders. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He lives with his wife, she is eighty-four. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Mother and the driver’s wife wept upon hearing this. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I leave the good car at home for my wife.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A delicious coziness enveloped him; Min’s wife must have had the jacket warming by the fire inside. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Besides, life in the little green house with the fisherman and his wife was sweet. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

They had Hermes bring him up from the dead to see once again his deeply mourning wife, Laodamia. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He feared that if he were caught, his wife would pay for it. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“Now me,” said Laforgue, “I like to teach well enough, but I have a wife and a daughter in school in France—the money comes in handy, yes?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Would she now betray me to Claudius, as a loyal queen and dutiful wife must do? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The married rebels barely had time to take leave of their wives, whom they left to their own devices. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Once his wife returned home to find a freshly deceased rhinoceros filling the front hallway. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Halley was certainly not plunged into abject poverty by these events—he had property of his own and his wife had brought a good dowry with her. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

His wife, still downstairs, unlocked and opened the door. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

"For a time. Now she wants to be my salt wife." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In the same burgundy booth a few hours later, Michael A. Wiener, cofounder of the multibillion-dollar Infinity Broadcasting, grabbed a bite with his wife, Zena. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

By this time I had guessed from their manner that the old woman was to the old man a sister or a friend rather than a wife. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He worked for the INS and had an American wife. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Chevalier was a Berkeley French professor and, along with his wife, a member of the Oppenheimers’ social and intellectual circle. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He said he wanted to join his wife, that it was his right to die. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

My brothers were pleading with my mother to take their pet chicks with them, and my cousin’s wife was in the kitchen crying. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“I’m cursed. You wouldn’t be safe if I were your wife.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“He speaks the truth,” Bernabe said, covering the mouthpiece as he whispered to his wife, “Carolina, get me a couple aspirins, will you? This is getting worse.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I approached the group, I noticed Raynors wife, to whom I had been introduced earlier. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Soon after, his wife left him, taking their four children with her. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

His wife, through her terror and horror and distress, saw some sure danger to him: instantly forgetting her own grief, she seized hold of him and cried out:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The women listened with embarrassed smiles, for the same reason they prayed with Ferula: so as not to displease the patrons wife. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

His wife, a well-preserved woman with afflicted eyelids and expression, scolded his mistake. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I nod again, hoping his wife isn’t like Mrs. Fisher at school. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

The doorbell rang and he admitted his wife, a dark, attractive, European white woman who carried a book under her arm. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

So someday you will be better than a fisherman’s wife. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

They thought they would be people like themselves, men doing their military duty, anxious to return to their wives and children, and appreciative of any hospitality and kindness. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think so. His wife—we’ve known her since we were children. But even if he did object, it wouldn’t have made a difference. My father doesn’t take no for an answer.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

"I need a new wife, and I figured the best Belle in the kingdom would help me attain a look that women enjoy." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The next morning I rose early to make her breakfast, and we drove over to the Sisulus’ house to meet Walter’s wife, Albertina, one of the leaders of the protest. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my fantasy I was the first wife but I knew there was no guarantee of that; I might be hidden anywhere in the long chain of wives. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He and his wife, Margaret, were sailing to Europe in the company of their daughter and her husband for a grand tour that was to continue through the summer. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The chaplain’s wife was intuitive, gentle, compassionate and responsive. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t just work that preoccupied him; it was the thought of Emma:—“My own dear future wife.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is the youngest of his father's thirty-five children, twenty-five legitimate, fifteen from his own mother, the second wife; he has no past of his own. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The driver asked his wife not to worry about him. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Nixon ran down the hall to hug his wife and daughters. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Most of them had known Carl Heine, a salmon gill- netter with a wife and three children, who was buried now in the Lutheran cemetery up on Indian Knob Hill. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her first months as a wife were peaceful and boring. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had not done so before because I was sure Nathan would not like his wife or his daughter going to a white man, a foreigner. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The country wives would hold me in dishonor if he, with all his fortune, lay unshrouded.’ The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ernest said, ‘I want you to blow up and kill Bill Smith and his wife.’ Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Then the anger would pass; he would go back to his job and try to eke out a few pennies to support his wife and children. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Maria was almost as dark as herself, so Nhamo guessed that the trader’s wife wasn’t Portuguese. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her brother O. V., his children and wife, and lots of cousins. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said I was starving and then out of the blue he announced to his wife that he liked me. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

I knew I would not be able to see my wife again for at least six months. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

That he had married and was joining his wife in heaven. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

So even when my last wife passed away, I’ve never been alone. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a Friday afternoon, and he was sitting alone in a dark house, waiting for his wife to fight her way home through the rush-hour traffic. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

And then the following morning the body of his first wife being found, trapped in the cabin of her sailing boat, at the bottom of the bay. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“His wife, poor ailing soul, done passed on, and he thinking about coming North.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He acquired a wife from a good family and a magnificent town house as well as a large chateau in the country. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

But his case for insanity was damaged when his former wife, Annie, was called to the witness stand by the prosecution. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Roan had learned that his wife was having an affair with a man named Roy Bunch. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Very early one Christmas morning as he and his wife lay in bed asleep, an explosion woke him. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Balder’s wife, Nanna, saw her husband’s body carried past. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

While the old man was distracted by his wife, Hugo and Isabelle quickly gathered up all the drawings. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Now that I had broken down my reluctance at saying Rebecca’s name, first with the bishop’s wife and now with Frank Crawley, the urge to continue was strong within me. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

His mother looked like an officers wife, fancy and unaccustomed to dirt. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Papa half dragged her to where his wife was mixing batter for cheesy bread. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“I believe the nursery is one source of disturbance,” he told his wife, and she sighed irritably. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

"One by one they tiptoed out, leaving their wives behind," he remarked. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was this stray bit of information that- was responsible for Zizmo’s increasing moodiness, his suspicious glances at his pregnant wife. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But on a green ledge above the battlefield I saw the giant’s wives crying. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I wouldn’t hit my wife either, not for any reason, not even if she hit me. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

When the director’s wife slips on ice in the Place des Vosges and breaks her wrist in two places, the museum’s gossip machine explodes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He tells her that two years earlier he’d married Cady’s successor, but that his wife took her life in a fit of depression. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Part of me could picture settling down, even having my own wife and children and spending my whole life right there. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wife and the two daughters and the son turned their heads to him. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the British finally evacuated Boston, Thompson fled to England, leaving his wife and small daughter behind. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a struggle, Kenneth was pulled from his wife’s small frame and she was laid back down in her casket. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

‘He disappeared from his bed three nights ago together with his wife and ten children.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I’ll say, ‘This isn’t your wife. Where is Moon Orchid ? I’ve come to see her. I’m her first sister, and I’ve come to see that she is being well taken care of.’ The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ever landlord in Jackson be white and ever one got a white wife that’s friends with somebody. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Mr. Derby escorted his wife out of the room then. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

My wife read the mail and paid our bills. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have a wife in America, a home, a career, and a family. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And he envied his wife one thing: she loved him and she loved their brats, and that was her life—to feed them, keep house, and fight to protect them. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"What do you mean, how come? Can't I send candy to my wife without getting the third degree? I thought you were looking on the thin side, okay?" The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

At his side, like a useless appendage, is his wife, twenty-seven years younger and equally poor, whose arms and legs are loaded with real and fake bracelets and rings left over from more prosperous days. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Every day his wife rolls his wheelchair onto the porch with a TV stand and a small color TV. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Virtually overnight, Johnny’s father was bankrupt with seven children and a wife to feed. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother, who has a master’s degree in psychology, says that Dr. Zamborska has never stopped wishing that he had been killed instead of his wife. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lived out of cans, but then perhaps his former wife did also. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This man and wife told their daughter not to speak to any young men,” she went on. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow we got on to the idea of making a toast to our absent wives. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had started a letter to his wife which also ended in the wastebasket. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tormented by the certainty that he was his wife’s brother, Aureliano ran out to the parish house to search through the moldy and moth-eaten archives for some clue to his parentage. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I found a way around that by invoking his wife. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents spoke only in hushed tones of Uncle’s first wife. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

That was Grandpa Bobby’s fishing boat, which he’d named after his wife, my grandmother. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The tour guide said that George was so heartbroken that he never visited the castle again, but kept it as a shrine to his wife. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I insult his manhood, his boring wife, his ugly child. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And he made arrangements for your brother to be appointed for his wife’s estate?” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

My father was not the only person to bring his entire family to Chisamba Singles—soon everyone did this, including his roommate, who had two wives. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The next morning the wife had come to the hotel and, without knowing it, gave away the traveler’s identity. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Hamlet does not want a wife, for I only hinder his revenge.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Does his wife put him on the toilet? Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

She imagined him attending events like this, in halls like this, with his wife by his side. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Once, one of the warders, a very pleasant young man named Warrant Officer Brand, actually took me to his family’s flat and introduced me to his wife and children. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the time this picture was taken, Aunt Florence said, he was already a preacher, and had a wife who was now in Heaven. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Stanley looked uncertainly at his hand, then at Clyde Livingston's wife. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Achilles had spared Priam, but Achilles’ son struck him down before the eyes of his wife and daughters. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

His wife felt him return to bed, and shuddered. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

His stomach blocks his view of his feet, and since his wife passed nobody tells him that his pants are too short and his socks don’t always match. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

His wife, Yewande, hugged us, asked how we were, then slapped Ade Coker’s shoulder playfully and took the baby from him. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

And how his wife would have been an “old maid.” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

He had plenty of work to do, a newborn at home—the fourth for Baird and his wife. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t surprise me that the sheriff would have such predilections, and I wonder if there ain’t some more sinister truth to the story about the loss of the sheriff’s sweet-tempered wife. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

When he introduces his wife, Eugenia, and his son, Jake, he is so proud, with cheeks rubbery smiling and eyes shining crinkly. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

“You have nothing to worry about. We are merely relocating you. You and your wife and your son have ten minutes. You must each pack one suitcase.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

For he saw his eldest for what he was: a man big in body but afraid of his own town wife and more afraid of not appearing nobly born than of anything. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Let us,” Lincoln declared, “make it as unfashionable to withhold our names from the temperance pledge as for husbands to wear their wives’ bonnets to church.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Hardly the kind of man a wife dreams about, she told herself. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Then you must know where my wife is. Vera is not like this at all. She wanders... but always comes back to me.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Technically it's my wife's, but we all pitch in when we can. She believes families who work together stay together.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

His wife won’t let him in the house when he’s drunk, so he goes over yonder and she sends a colored boy name Fish to see after him.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The rich merchant and his wife wished to take her back with them to Salisbury to care for their son and mayhap perform more miracles; he spoke temptingly of new shoes and a shrine. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some lied and said they’d gotten rich, or sent pictures of themselves as younger men; at any rate, wives came across the ocean. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was seventeen years older than Mammachi, and realized with a shock that he was an old man when his wife was still in her prime. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few locals, fishermen and their wives, stood around, watching. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He sat in that chair, his wife dabbing at her eyes each time her husband said something. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He married and divorced repeatedly, gaining notoriety among gossip columnists for slugging one of his wives and engaging in public shouting matches with the others. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was talking with a mouthful of Philadelphia cream cheese and salmon roe to an optometrist’s wife. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The night before, it had been the miller's wife. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There was a tin tub in front of the fire, and the innkeeper's wife put up a paper screen around it. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The primary role of women as wives and mothers was never far from the discussion of the achievements of Soviet women. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

And, according to the story, the woman was the wife of a navy man. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

He needed a sense of humor with that social- climbing wife. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ben and Mary Anne found themselves in an upstairs room alone and free from the stares and sympathies of the wives. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a wife and two babies before he was old enough to vote. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was already overwrought about my wife, I was still grieving for my mother, and then to hear such news... Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But beneath that soft gentleness there was something stubborn in her, and no matter how conscientiously he studied it all out, he could not understand the gentle stubbornness in his wife. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I think I was the only man there who heard the inauguration while holding his wife’s feet in his lap, rubbing vigorously. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But he can buy a little extra something and he will be in a better mood and he won’t beat his wife this night,” Aunty Uju said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Wasn’t my nephew Jem,” he said slowly, “engaged to marry his great-uncle’s son’s wife’s second cousin?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

One of Hale’s lawyers now asked Ernest if he’d pleaded guilty to murdering his wife’s sister by blowing up her house while she was inside. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The wife should obey the husband; this, according to the Three Bonds of Confucianism. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

My cousin’s wife answers the door in Lezajsk, surprised and a little suspicious, but within thirty minutes I’ve made double what I could have gotten at the secondhand shops in Przemyśl. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

His impeccable wife tying that impeccable tie, brushing down that black coat, which by six a.m. would be white with the lint blowing about the gigantic room. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he grew so angry that he beat his wife until she could not stand or even cry aloud. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Many Aboriginal women came as wives to Muralug Island, where they saw gardens and bows and arrows. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was briefly led into a private room, where his wife and parents were waiting, surrounded by guards. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He and his wife had four children, two boys and two girls, the youngest being Libby, nineteen years old at the time. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Sadly, on payday many men took their paychecks directly to the saloon instead of to their wives and families. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

When his wife and child moved closer, he put the knife back in his pocket, letting his fingers slide across his son’s tightly coiled curls. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Here is how Billy Pilgrim lost his wife, Valencia. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was a weaver, and the wife of a man named James Cook, a man who hunted and trapped for a living. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

William Bright said that he had never been to school a day in his life, but he “venerated” his well-informed wife and willingly “submitted to her judgment and influence.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

She was a good Jewish wife to him, but their marriage was starting to crumble because he didn’t care about her. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

After sleeping on the floor of a Baton Rouge mosque for that first week, he and his wife had rented an apartment for the month, and were living there. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

In the cabin in the middle of the holler lived a sixty-year-old man and his wife. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

A man talked of seeing his wife pinched by children who he could not scold nor wave away with his stick, but must suffer them to torment her as she stood, eyes closed, twitching. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“And is there a day when the husbands fast for their wives? No, of course not!” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Compeyson’s wife and me took him up to bed agen, and he raved most dreadful. ‘Why look at her!’ he cries out. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

This was one of the state’s most barbarous techniques of applying pressure: imprisoning the wives and children of freedom fighters. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She will metamorphose into a wife or consort and raise faerie children who will adore and outlive her. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Leon Betterly’s wife and two ladies from the church sat with her. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Do I have to keep it a secret forever, like a spy who can never tell his wife and kids who he really is? Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What do you mean? Are you not his wife? What makes you say he will never return?” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I quite understand your position. Not, I fear, that my wife and I can do much to assist you. We were asleep and heard nothing at all.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once more he picked up the phone receiver, to call his wife. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Why, that you lived at Manderley and—and that you had lost your wife.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

But Ophie always liked the way the pastor’s deep bass rumble voice read the Scripture, and the way his wife always closed her eyes as her husband read. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The older people always remarked, “He is old enough and responsible enough to find himself a good wife, but he likes to be alone, he likes that loose life.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Don’t forget Papá,” I said, nodding to the shop owner and his wife staring at us from the counter. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He was reunited, he wrote, with his wife and children. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He remembers suddenly about Ghosh, his companion on the train, who had returned from England for his wife’s sake. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“If? said his wife slowly, watching the sky, “there’s no atomic war. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Me and the guy, and his wife too. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

My wife said, ‘Listen, we’ll pay you whatever you want if you release him,’ but they just ignored her. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

And just as there is said to be a jump in wife beatings on Super Bowl Sunday, so it was true that suicides in prison often occurred around the holidays. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The son of a New England farmer and shoemaker was being accused of aristocratic allegiances by an owner of slaves with vast estates, much of both inherited from his wife’s side of the family. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

When he joined Ged and Serret for supper he sat silent, looking up at his young wife sometimes with a hard, covetous glance. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, as she was climbing on the carrier pack of Babi’s bicycle, Laila spotted a car parked up the street, across from the house where the shoemaker, Rasheed, lived with his reclusive wife. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He was still angry about the pastor and his wife. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

There was something about it that touched him, or as his wife Mary put it, “They say when you get the sand in your craw, you never want to leave.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked hungry for recklessness, perhaps a repressed, frustrated wife who had broken free on this one night. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“My wife won’t let me talk to my kids,” he said. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Their board-stiff khaki pants and shirts revealed the painstaking care of a dutiful daughter or wife. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

First, with the pretext of taking the burden off his wife, he transferred his parties. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Everything Tibbets was about to hear, Ent cautioned, would have to be concealed, even from his wife—even from the pilots and crews who would be working under him. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

While he was gone, his wife choked on food and died. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Curly and his wife were avid movie fans. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

With my wife, my children, my grandchildren, and many friends there, it was one of the proudest days of my life. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Later takes garments to finish at home with the help of his wife and older children. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He picked up his bow, aimed an arrow at his wife and—with the rumblings of a gong, the sky went black. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there would be other chores as well—Nana had told her what husbands did to their wives. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Four hours later, they emerged again as man and wife, bound together wrist and ankle with chains of yellow gold. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He was an Episcopalian priest, and his wife, Julie, was a music teacher. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He's married, and I think his wife is pregnant now. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“Most men want their wives to stay home.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The men do not like it who wants a wife who knows everything her husband knows? they fume. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Be our guest—” The agent first dialed his wife, ‘i’m fine,” he told Marilyn. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a big leap to go from being friendly cousins to being husband and wife. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Upon the death of Orpheus’s wife, Eurydice, he marched into the Underworld and played his lyre for Hades until the lord of Death, so moved, agreed to return his wife. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

His wife was behind him, and they had a guest in the house, another woman of similar age. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It was to his wife alone that Caesar spoke the words he had had in his mind. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

The Kathakali Men took off their makeup and went home to beat their wives. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

His wife, Sophie, a stunning Sicilian woman whose picture on his desk I had long been in love with, was dead nearly five years from cervical cancer. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he tapped his wife with a huge hand. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“The kid is drunk,” he muttered to his wife and kept on walking, shooting back a sour glance after making it a safe distance. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Normally, the husband’s family would give the wife’s family a dowry of cows, but in this case, John agreed to send money worth the equivalent of eighty cows. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and her twin, Kayla, bet that it would be a rapper or a basketball player and his supermodel wife, and we'd all be famous by association just cause we live on the same block. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I kissed and held my wife for the first time in all these many years. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The fever has assumed a most alarming appearance,” Rush wrote to his wife, Julia, who was summering in Princeton with their youngest children. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

He burst into the room, where he found his wife fast asleep. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There isn’t any why. It’s just the way they do things. That’s why so many Cealdish caravans are husband- wife teams.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They had a laugh over that as they raced ahead to an amorous young miller's wife that Patrek knew. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

If only he had run two yards farther to the left, he might now be sitting in the trench over there and writing a fresh letter to his wife. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have a wife in America, a home, a career, and a family. Kabul is a dangerous place, you know that, and you’d have me risk everything for...” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

"I don't need to go to your castle. I can stay in some town, and be your salt wife." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She had a large purple bruise on her leg for days but what could I do except stand and watch my wife get beaten? The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the trader and his wife saw her leave, perhaps not. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wrapped my arms around Grampa’s neck and hugged him while we cried together, mourning the loss of a wife and grandmother and friend, wondering how we could possibly survive without her. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Jorge came from Australia with his wife and their five children. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The senator’s wife paused, letting a delicate beat pass. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Then came a wife for Kobi, named Lettuce, and a wife for Kip, known simply as Mrs. Kip. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

He’d made a promise to the pastor and his wife, and because he had been lied to, his promise had not been kept. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

My wife and I had lost our baby fat. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blackwell, who was seven years younger than Stone, promised her that marriage did not have to involve submission of the wife to the husband. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The remaining flat in the house was occupied by a Polish dock walloper, his wife and their four kids. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I read about each of the seven who died, I thought of Otto Frank not being a father anymore, left with a diary instead of a wife and two daughters. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

There was extra meaning in the event for Terryl because her real father, and his wife, joined the group, marking the first time the whole collection of them had been together. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“This was a case of, ‘If we can’t have William Friedman, we will make use of his brains through his wife,’” she later said. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Lemore had changed out of her septa’s robes into garb more befitting the wife or daughter of a prosperous merchant. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His color deepened at the rude suggestion that I could be like his wife. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Honey,” Paige said, “it would take a lot more than God and Virgil Hedgepath to get me to one of those godawful boring teas where those dumb wives sit around counting each other’s wrinkles.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

With her was Hugh’s wife: a small, mild-mannered woman who looked far too young and frail to have borne as many children as she had. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Though, now that you mention it, I did hear a rather crude one recently about a pig, a farmer's wife, and an eloko who walk into a tavern...” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

On several occasions he slugged his wife, hating Sherri for the way her presence constantly had him split down the middle. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, a wife may revile such a man with every silent curse she knows. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My wife doesn’t know all about my funny friends,” he said. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

If his wife had chosen this occasion to have one of her special “I simply don’t understand” periods he wasn’t going to fight her. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How odd. How strange. And my wife thirty and yet you seem so much older at times. I can't get over it.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

His wife looked at him for a long time, not speaking. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just then Min’s wife came around the house with a basket of laundry. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

He thought of Min’s wife, and decided it would not displease her if he chose to give the jacket to his friend. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

And suppose he were married and his wife refused him for fifteen years. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jake watched his wife slowly stack her papers at the reservations desk. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m the type the boss’s wife would hire for her husband’s secretary. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

His wife is sitting beside him with her purse in her lap. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“I know well in my heart and in my soul,” he said to his wife Andromache, “the day shall come when holy Troy will be laid low and Priam and Priam’s people.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But after several months of caring for him at home, the victim's wife apparently abandoned him and he became gravely ill. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Some men who came from poor families did not see their wives for many years at a time, if at all. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was poor little me, suddenly a diplomat’s wife on the edge of the forest prime evil, wearing my Dior gown and long black gloves to embassy parties in Brazzaville, French Congo. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents now lived the lives of perpetual fugitives, fleeing by day and fleeing by night, making sure that they were never caught together under the same roof as husband and wife. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I called and called and called, and he ignored me, he didn’t even respond to the threats I made—I’d go to the house, I’d talk to his wife. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She leapt into it, finding numerous examples she’d show on the screen during her talks, like the one where the husband led the wife around by a leash, she on all fours like a dog. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Scott took refuge with us in Orlando and brought along an African priest named Dlamini, who also had a wife and children. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a pretty ring,” one of the wives said. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

"I know, you're right. I picture a certain life—an observant wife, a Jewish home. Quiet, simple. Printing papers by day, coming home to a family at night. My dream hasn't changed." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I think having you and your wife maybe, her sister, too, near Veronica would help.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Many successful American black men have white wives. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

But they also have to take into account his pale-skinned wife. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We don’t have any money,” said the farmer’s wife. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he got in himself and helped his wife scramble up. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“Man got his house done built and his wife ain’t come yet.” Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

He and his wife were just walking along, talking, not paying any attention to their kid. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

One day, during this same time, my wife informed me that my elder son, Thembi, then five, had asked her, “Where does Daddy live?” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am very fortunate in having a wife who likes being a woman, which means that she likes men, not elderly babies. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father’s wife stepped aside and left a space open at the foot of the bed. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

"I had taken her to wife. She was carrying my child." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Many of them had hitched up the horses and driven their wives to the meeting, and now they wanted to come inside and take part. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Behind us, a group of women was carrying on a conversation, criticizing a neighbor’s wife who, upon leaving Haiti, had turned from a sweet Haitian wife into a self-willed tyrant. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

At 1:45, client Kiev Schoening ascended the final rise, pulled out a photo of his wife and children, and commenced a tearful celebration of his arrival on top of the world. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

She had al-ways known she would not marry—her twisted leg made it an impossibility; she could never be a good wife, could never perform the many duties required — but certainly she could manage alone. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A wife is the earth itself, changing hands, bearing scars. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t appreciate what a fine wife you have. But I don’t care. I’ll get you some place where they can’t arrest you and then well have a lovely time.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“You didn’t tell me your wife was Jamaican,” she told my father in a rage. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Even though we were not married, we considered ourselves husband and wife. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he stayed away from the Senate for an hour to accompany his wife on her regular morning visit to their daughter and her new companion. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I will be a good wife to him, and t-true. I... I will please him and give him sons. I will be a better wife than the real Arya could have been, he’ll see.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

MacGregor arrived with a new wife—number seven, Matt thought; this one was as young as Emilia. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Behind every successful Marine officer stands his loyal and uncomplaining wife,” Virgil joked. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bobby paid no attention to the stunning scenery or to Evans’s equally stunning wife, who sat in the backseat to allow the boy to sit up front. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She looked at me strangely and asked her sister wives, “Has the spotted devil child been sick too?” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Glancing up at the feuding husband and wife, Bandit saw tears in their eyes. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Erasmus was; he was no fool, but he had neither a wife nor a career. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Shadow had had any doubts as to whether his wife was dead or not, they ended then. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Though a wife and mother, Gilly still seemed half a child to him, a slender little thing wrapped up in one of Sam’s old cloaks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Now thirty-three, with a wife and two sons, he was back in Vietnam, this time as a journalist, covering the final battle for Saigon. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The wife insists we keep out of her neighbors’ eyes. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Always working to show the neighbors what a good wife and mother she was. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“My wife is a wonderful woman,” he said in a kind of peroration. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You do not remember what I told you, that that girl’s mother, the Lord's wife, is an enchantress?” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Baba was like the widower who remarries but can’t let go of his dead wife. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And yet he loved his wife—and what was worse, his wife knew it. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

“Listen, I am so sorry about your wing. And, alas, I have no skills to heal it. But my wife. Ethyne.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

It seemed to Polly that he treated his wife more like a delicate possession than a real person. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The way he explained it was it wouldn’t look right for him to collect money on saving his own wife. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the movies the landlord’s wife was ugly, cruel, and stupid. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

On t’other hand, the law allows any man to avenge the violation of his wife, and the dead man’s lawyers argued that he were doing just that. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

"As to your daughter, I understand. If my wife looked like yours, I'd send my fool to service her as well." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

"The Others take my wife," Robert muttered sourly, but he started back the way they had come, his footsteps falling heavily. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He had dreamed of her in the night, dreamed of his wife in a scarlet robe, turning witchlike to love him. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

For to play a system requires money, while the wages of a gardener’s helper do not lap over the needs of a wife and numerous progeny. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

As McGarrity went behind the bar, he looked into his wife’s eyes. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Page's wife, Mila, who was also on the "list," is still living and is a dear friend. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

More wives could keep their husbands if they realized their greatest urge is to be men. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard to put a face on the overseer’s wife. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The Quakers wife was as large and red-faced as her husband, and equally kind. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Who is she, anyway, Brother Jack's wife, his girl friend? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hope so,” Bull answered, applying shaving lather to his face as he talked to his wife. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not ready to give up, but my wife’s got a point,” he replied. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I fear that she will make a willful wife.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“And now he is buried,” the emperor said, “and you are to be my wife.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I turned to my father’s wife for an explanation. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The Cabby opened his mouth in astonishment, and his wife turned very red. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Well, I was; and I loved my wife dearly, as I loved my son, my only child, a little boy not yet one year old when I wandered out of my world. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

One woman’s husband recovering from a stroke still told his wife he could get along without her while she went to jail. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

She may cut off their tails with a carving knife, this husbandless wife, whose school friends are still promenading through their girlhoods. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

My wife drove us to the airport in Manchester, through blowing snow, in the kind of awkward silence that precedes a long separation. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“But she is my wife, and I will find her. Even if I have to go from hotel to hotel, I will find her.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Remember the letter that Paul Revere’s wife, Rachel, gave Church? George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Shut up,” said Mr. Milgrom as he helped his wife up from the mattress. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“Then I’m leaving. My wife is exhausted and needs me to accompany her home. Charles will stay and supervise.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your wife’s got no call to talk like that.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Does the request of a ghost overrule the plea of a wife? How can your vow of vengeance usurp our marriage vows?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The farmer, along with his wife and children, lived in a one-story stone house on the farm. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The salary was generous enough to support a wife, and I was honored to be hired by a world-famous university, and so I obtained a sixth-preference green card, and prepared to travel farther still. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I’ll try not to be too busy, but a farmer’s wife has an awful lot to do.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the girl that ran off, leaving Mayor Carr’s wife to her fate. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Not that way. Kiss me as if I were your wife.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“You’re a proper mariner’s wife, Elizabeth. You know an anchor won’t hold if the cable’s too short. A man always needs another shot in the locker.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

First she drew a silhouette of the old man and then his wife with her basket on her head, perched over him like a ballerina, unaware of her load. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“I would not even consent that my wife should stay at home to rock the baby when she ought to be addressing a meeting or organizing a society.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“My wife and I renovated this kitchen ourselves! With these hands!” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed he was, striding down the dark corridor toward them, followed by his wife and her retinue. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

When new visitors were asked to introduce themselves, a man stood up and said that he and his wife had just come to Sydney from Egypt and that their name was Akech. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The geographic separation between wife and husband was a proxy for the emotional distance that opened between them as the years progressed, exposing an unevenness that was perhaps present from the beginning of their relationship. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Then he said: "Our inquiry rests there. Now Rogers, who else is there on this island besides ourselves and you and your wife?" And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

And, in that instarit, his wife became a dark spectral presence in the room. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

When the crew raised their glasses of stout and rum to Christmas carols and toasted “To our sweethearts and wives,” the answer came back, “May they never meet!” Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The wife of one of the victims has been hospitalized for depression. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

All in all, though, he seemed to Joe to be relatively composed for a man who had now twice lost a young wife. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

At this stage Bragg had blown his top and, with his blood pressure all too high, returned home presumably to tell his wife about the latest antics of their problem child. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

His wife, Adelaide, phoned me early in the morning and I rushed to Oliver’s bedside. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Much to his unhappiness, thirteen of his children were girls, leaving my uncle and his precious son, Usman, the child of his first wife, as the only males in the household. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, Kitty, you may cough as much as you choose,” said Mr. Bennet; and, as he spoke, he left the room, fatigued with the raptures of his wife. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

“So you know that woman, the teacher’s wife?” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He was so sweet and gentle and patient comforting his young wife. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

People say it’s the wife, Solomon’s wife, crying. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not as if I humiliated my husband at a summer barbecue by shouting abuse at the wife of one of his friends. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But did he claim me as his wife?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

They also wore special cotton waistbands under their clothes and made for each soldier by his wife or his mother or his sisters. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man who travels with his wife is usually to be trusted. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Turner, the principal’s wife and also his secretary, was clearly flustered and leapt from her chair when we arrived. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

They had together invested their wives’ inheritance in that ridiculous project—what was it?—growing onions in some godforsaken desert area where you couldn’t even get Haitians to live? In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he drives by the home of Alvin and Beulah Williams, the pastor and his wife, he says a quick prayer for them. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Their wives were sentenced to twenty-five years in prison and fined $10,000. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The wives each had on a flimsy black scarf, which they wore not on their heads but ded loosely around the neck like an afterthought. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Why didn’t she come with you? She’s not jealous of your new wife, is she?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She judged him to be maybe ten years older than she was, married, he said, but separated from his wife and living with his mother. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

One King would have, oh, fifty or a hundred wives, easy. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just remembered I promised to get back early. Cathy, my wife, is going to have a baby.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor’s wife, his beautiful wife, was there, smiling worriedly from behind a chair, the only one pulled away from a long wooden table that ran the length of the room. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

As Charles’s father had warned, “Things went on pretty well until the wife or husband became out of health, and then some women suffered miserably by doubting about the salvation of their husbands.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Don’t listen if the minor wife talks to you. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

If they did not, he took their cities, wealth and wives and all. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

More important, I’d be able to talk to my wife again without hiding anything between parentheses. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Because he was chief at the time, he gradually took more and more of the common land, and took more and more wives to work it. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I studied his strong, handsome face and knew he would have no trouble finding a lovely wife. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

That friend’s wife greeted him sadly and told him that his friend was unfortunately very ill and would have to stay in his bed for a long time. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Ever since my release from prison, the state had continued its campaign to discredit my wife. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Wang Lung’s eldest son remembered the dislike of his wife and so now he was silent and said no more. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

If I returned home to my wife and children they would not know me. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A lawyer who knew them both noted that his “devotion to his Indian wife and his children is unusual...and striking.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He told her that he and his wife had adopted a black child and their neighbors looked at them as though they had chosen to become martyrs for a dubious cause. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Next to her: Cash, with Amy’s wife on his shoulders in what Alex can now tell is the jean jacket Amy was embroidering on the plane in the colors of the pansexual flag. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

An engineer’s wife gave Miriam Mann’s daughter a shiny new penny to put in her shoe on her wedding day. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Then he and his wife, whose name is Margaret Ann, wrap them in a refrigerated shipping bucket, which will keep the flowers hydrated. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Yard boys scared that a single gesture near the planter’s wife could leave them hanging from an oak tree. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The farmer’s wife, who had been with him in Ralston that night, was also certain that the woman in the car was Anna, though she didn’t talk to her. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The grocer’s wife says they’re sent to nylon factories in Russia. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The word is that Earl is married and has a wife somewhere. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It's a bedroom, of course," his wife replied. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the telegram boys like Protestant ministers’ wives. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

His wife asked me, “Why are people in the world starving when America has so much surplus food? What do they do, dump it in the ocean?” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pastor Patton and his wife from New Hope Church brought a pot of chicken and dumplings. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And then, looking down at his wife in the tub: “Oh Christ, what—” “It’s only my period,” Linda said, shocked, not quite comprehending: the water was tinged with menstrual blood. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chaplain’s wife was a sweet, soothing, considerate woman, and he yearned to touch the warm flesh of her slender arm again and stroke her smooth black hair, to hear her intimate, comforting voice. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Like Ashoke, the bachelors fly back to Calcutta one by one, returning with wives. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Farmer takes the wife’s blood pressure, too, at her request—her numbers are high as well. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Oh,” said Doctor Baker, “yes, yes I suppose I have. Some inquest or other wasn’t there? My wife was reading all about it.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She poured the coffee into a cup and brought it to the table, but Papa strode directly to his wife and kissed her on her forehead. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It was the first time I had ever had my wife and children and grandchildren all in one place, and it was a grand and happy occasion. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The goods— belonging to migrant workers living alone in the city—were being sent to wives back in the tribal reserve. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Master Lester’s plantation, Mississippi, go there and tell my wife, Sylvie, and daughter, Charity, that I died in the fight for freedom.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, my wife, she... she just never wanted any children at all.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But the wife of Mr. Darcy must have such extraordinary sources of happiness necessarily attached to her situation, that she could, upon the whole, have no cause to repine.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

His expression changes from contempt to concern as he turns to talk to his wife. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her education had taught her how to be an enlightened mother and wife, able to contribute to the civilization—or in her case, the civilizing—of her community. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

His wife said to him, "This one'll have to go on the back seat. There's no more room in the boot." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Two sisters, two daughters, one wife, and my old mother,” the singer claimed, though not one looked like him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Italian fashion dominated the reign of King Henry II of France, thanks to his wife, Catherine de Medici, whose role in the arts of sixteenth-century France is hard to exaggerate. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Minnie filled her letters with news of her fast-intensifying romance and expressed wonder that such a handsome man had chosen her to be his wife. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The reporters, for their part, had focused their attention on the wife of the accused man, who wore a knife-pleated skirt on this day and a blouse with long darts through the shoulders. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I know that we could not live as husband and wife, but that wouldn’t matter, because I would be with you, and you would be with me too. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She understood Jupiter better than his wife did. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It rolled over in bed when he got home before sunrise: a green-eyed monster lying next to his young, inscrutable wife, but then Zizmo would blink and the monster would disappear. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He and his wife lived over on Riverside Drive; he was headed home now; they’d been married for nine years; they’d met as high school sweethearts; they didn’t have any children. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Given the twenty-year age difference between him and my mother, I wasn’t surprised that this wife too was relatively young. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Horace said later to his wife, “And if you ever saw death still breathing, there it was.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Big Ma said, “Never you mind. That’s your father and his wife’s business,” and then she sent Fern out to the coop with a pan of chicken feed. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

With a heavy heart, Crazy Horse left his wife and mounted his horse. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

The sheet was sealed with sealing wax, and the Lady Una questioned the boy closely about the travelers—a man and his wife—before she broke the seal and read the letter. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

"Mighty little fishing you did on them trips," his wife said. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

It was the only show that he and his wife, Coretta, allowed their children to watch, and he never missed an episode. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

They wanted wives who would sacrifice themselves and appreciate the hard work and sacrifice of their husbands. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fingers of the gray waves dragged her body away from them, and Gilling’s wife and Gilling were reunited in death. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

‘Why don’t you sit down?’ he said, ‘and eat. My master’s wife— she’s my aunt—always sends over more than I can manage.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I went to college in the United States; I guess some sort of accent stuck. My wife teases me about it, but I thought she was joking until now.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Hear man say his wife give him hoe for birthday. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a far different woman from the one at church—the winsome fisher wife serving tea and coffee. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The absentminded, fluff-haired little clergyman and his stalwart wife drifted into her memory. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He then gave me news of my wife. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the service, Pa went up to the pastor to introduce his wife, and Big Ma was all smiles. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

A woman was often referred to by her husband's name—as Jacob's wife, for example—while children were sometimes known according to who their parents or grandparents were. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

His letters to Laurens are almost as romantic as his letters to his wife. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Gaines himself tried to shield his wife from seeing the letter because he knew that she would be hurt by it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought of the baby growing and moving in his wife’s swollen belly. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“My word,” the mayor’s wife says from the far end of the table. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

His only duty in the household was to issue orders and to marshal the energies of his wife and children to tasks that he would assign with a sense of exigence. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each wife came in with a communal bowl, knelt and presented it to her husband. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered leaving Horace’s office, hesitating before going up to Mill Run Road to take the news to the dead man’s wife. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

So they vowed they would have no wives nor children. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“No, you don’t, Elizabeth. You opened this can of worms. Now I’m closing it,” the judge’s wife say. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Leaving Graz, Kepler, his wife and stepdaughter set out on the difficult journey to Prague. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I said, ‘Well, I don’t suppose what you do or don’t do would affect me the way it might a real wife.’ Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“No witnesses, a crafty lawyer who said she'd chucked herself downstairs over and over, plus his wife conveniently going mental. ‘Unsound mind,' the judge in Worcester decided.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I saw pictures of their families. And then I began to realize they had wives, they had children.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He had known the miller’s wife for years, had even bedded her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Another long pause—she’s talking to me and doing something else, multitasking, the way busy wives and mothers do, tidying up, loading the washing machine. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The husband has never seen the daughter; his wife was pregnant when he left. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

If Sam Westing's former wife was one of the heirs, she had to be Crow. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

At a place where three roads met, we came upon a father huddled with wife and three daughters; the father placed his body between us and the girls. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He looked at his wife,' all the anger draining from his face. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I wanted to die as soon as possible, because life without my wife had lost all meaning for me. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took a walk with my wife, around the trout pool and over against the hill. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are lots of pictures of the handsome President Kennedy and his pretty wife, Jackie, who looks a little like my beauty-queen aunt, only paler and less made up. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“You are burnt beyond recognition,” he added, looking at his wife as one looks at a valuable piece of personal property which has suffered some damage. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

He left me just hours ago, and here I am, on my way to see Kamal, to meet once again the man he believes killed his wife. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

In addition to fieldwork, girls also helped the farmers’ wives with housework and tended babies and young children. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

"And please forgive me for butting in on you like this. I am Matilda's teacher at school and it is important I have a word with you and your wife." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Coming home to your wife and seeing two wineglasses in the sink. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

What was the name of Jefferson Davis’s wife? Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“There’s Johnny. Johnny, I think your wife needs your attention.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

After dropping off his bags, the guest stepped out to a pay phone on the street and called his wife. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Hassan kissed Aziz quickly, so the greengrocer across the street and his wife—who spoke to their individual cats more than to each other—would not spread rumors that the young couple were indecent. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

But when the dictator and his fancy wife left, everything broke. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Perhaps her father and his new wife were displeased. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

His wife ruled out the notion, but still, the idea burrowed into him. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

How would it be, he wondered, to live on a planet with a wife and three children and have them die, leaving you alone with the wind and silence? The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He leaned over and kissed his wife on her forehead. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Yes, you’ll be happy to know that a farmer in the next village wants to adopt her. He and his wife haven’t been able to have children." A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Later.—After lunch Harker and his wife went back to their own room, and as I passed a while ago I heard the click of the typewriter. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

His wife carried the baby while he pushed a baby carriage filled with jewelry, a frying pan, and a candelabrum. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would like to talk to you about your wife. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he was a little ashamed because his wife couldn’t read or write. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They swam together and kissed again and the agent made a leisurely pass at his wife, calmly giving a couple of pumps to her nice-sized breasts. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had known Reizel, his wife, before she had left for Belgium. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Stupid!" screamed the innkeeper's wife, furiously, and she advanced upon the unicorn, a knife in each hand, blood staining her right hand and forearm the same color as her dress. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Sing. His wife. They met on a wagon going North. Ate pecans all the way, she told me. It was a wagonful of ex-slaves going to the promised land.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

David Preston married his wife with the kind of gusto and enthusiasm and seriousness with which he attacks everything in life. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad stands before the desk and says, I have just returned from America with wife and four children. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He gave the price of twenty oxen for her, kept her as kindly in his house as his own wife, though, for the sake of peace, he never touched her. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Morrison’s wife at the time, Cole, was with them, and he told her to stay in the car. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Maybe she was already making the connections she would later make, between village babies and this suburban one, between old wives’ tales and new endocrinology . Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Yeobo, thank you for making me the happiest man in the world by being my wife for fifty-seven years! You are the best wife, and I am so lucky to have you. Saranghae!” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

His friend’s wife would be very glad not to be alone with a bunch of men. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

One night his children and even his wife helplessly giggled at his garbled English pronunciation of the Catholic Grace before Meals. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was Cassandra, Priam’s daughter, he told his wife—the Army’s gift to him, the flower of all the captive women. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

All Cupid had to do was to fly out and start looking for his wife. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he rolled off his huge wife, whose rapt expression did not change when he departed. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And even worse, his wife’s tea, while his wife is standing right there. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

His wife laughed and said, “He’s never been better.” The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

It was on a corner that I met my wife. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

He introduced us to his wife, a friendly, petite woman who also had a raspy voice. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

To Lexie, it was akin to anthropology, the stripper moms and polygamous wives and drug-dealing kids a window into a world so far from hers it was like something out of Margaret Mead. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“His wife says not. He went once before, when their first child was born, and had no trouble. No Warning.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

The new wife, however, just stared back at the other women, a sweet smile on her face. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

He suggested to Garfield that his wife would have a speedier recovery in the cool sea breezes of New Jersey away from the stifling heat and humidity of Washington. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“And must I, too, make such a promise, oh, my wife?” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“They will make fine wives, and give their husbands strong sons of royal blood,” he boasted. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His wife found him the next morning collapsed into a bloody heap of towels. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

After his years at the university, the man I killed returned with his new wife to the village of My Khe, where he enlisted as a common rifleman with the 48th Vietcong Battalion. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Larson’s wife was active in the Chicago teachers’ union, and each elementary, junior high, and high school in the metropolitan area received a copy of the press release about the hearing and the charges. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually a man carried her off while his wife and their children stayed on line. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Wolf and his wife, Andrea, lived a comfortable life under communism. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

In return for a favor to some white mobster, my new boss and his wife had just been given a six- months numbers banking privilege for the Bronx railroad area called Motthaven Yards. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had a lot of scrawny veterans and their scrawny wives for friends. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the street was Stew “Bright Eyes” Fiddler, an industrial parts salesman with a taste for bourbon and barmaids, and his wife, Mizzi, whose hair changed color like a mood ring. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Later Billy, lying in the darkness, listened to the even sounds of his wife’s breathing. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crudely painted sign on his shack could be seen as a guiding motto for the rest of the fire victims: “All gone but wife, children, and energy.” The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Plenty of eyes were on Pa’s new wife, and I was sure that Mrs. appreciated Big Ma telling her how to dress. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Once the telltale signs of sickness had been exhibited, it didn’t take long for Lester Burton, Arthur Devlin, and their wives and associates to start feeling a bit puny. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Flung from this earth by my own wantonness!” she cried just as her husband dashed back home, shouting, “Thief! Life- stealing wife!” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think there must have been some other girl printed somewhere in his heart, for he was a man of love and his wife was not a woman to show her feelings. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

First Wife was the head wife, by law and by custom. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides finding him that first apartment, what did this man and his wife ever do for Baba? You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Shortly after the news became known, Bishop Childs and his wife began to receive the first of a succession of bomb threats telephoned both to the church and to their home. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, when the man was sitting in front of his hut drinking his beer, his wife came to him and looked at the top of his head. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“Oh, yes, think about future! All I want every day is see my son, meet his children. I want to meet his wife to make sure she good enough.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He saw for one small moment the tragic face of his own frail wife, that unhappy woman, the stone strong face of his mother. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He named her Lady Gin, after his wife. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

When he went up to bed he tried again to get the thing off, and so did his wife, but it wouldn't budge. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

The pineapple came with a letter from their uncle and his wife. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

It did not seem fair to keep a wife from her husband. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

It made my chest ache to think of my grandpa down there, lost and looking for his wife, searching their familiar places for memories of her. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The trader responded with a tale of how his wife heated a can of peas on hot coals without opening it first. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guy looks like he wants to pull his wife inside, but she’s not having it. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

"Every man loves the shipwright's wife. He had bet-ter, lest he wants his ship to sink. If you need men to pull your oars, you could do worse than those three." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The wife kept the kids in front of the TV all day while she vacantly dozed across the couch. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Ah, you are concerned about my wife’s feelings, is that it? The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Anthony tried to explain Phillips’s action by suggesting that “he is a man and can not put himself in the position of a wife; can not feel what she does under the present marriage code.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I received quite an education about politics, as an embassy wife. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew the flood would come, and he had bidden his son build the chest, store it with provisions, and embark in it with his wife. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He held up the cup, and his wife poured beer into it. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

"If the first one is stupid, I'll chop off your head and find a smarter wife. When do you think you'll be able to have children?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

My mother glared at my father the way a wife does, and then she turned back toward me. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The constable in the village was a kindly man with a waxed mustache whose wife kept hens and delivered fresh eggs on her bicycle. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

His wife calculated that he must be losing huge sums of money, because at the end of the month there was invariably a long line of creditors at their door. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Woman is temptress. My wife leave me. I know.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Ten people today and one of them the wife of a Ministry employee! Tut, tut...even here, in the heart of the Ministry!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He had not explicitly told his wife that their marriage was over. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

When all were completed and full expiation made for the death of his wife and children, he would seem to have earned ease and tranquillity for the rest of his life. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew that these doubts and his revolutionary thoughts about transmutation and the creation of species would stand in his way of finding a wife. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I became a wife, but I continue to adapt to and be humbled by what it means to truly love and make a life with another person. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

This is none of my business any longer, I can leave the hairpins to his iron-clad wife. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Naked and ashen, he leaped from the bed, and with a flying tackle, grabbed his wife around the waist, and they hit the floor. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

My frantic search uncovered a plethora of random objects—clothing, shoe brushes, buttonhooks, photographs of wives and sweethearts, tins of wax and pastes—things that seemed so ordinary, so human. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He indicates the head table on the dais where a few dignitanes and their wives nod in my direction. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thinks Slim’s with his wife, don’t he?” said George. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Adrian Weiss and his wife, Ruth, moved into 8800 American Street in July 1924, after that long journey from Poland, and Ellis Island, and the tenements of New York City. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“A relationship with you! Jesus. I asked her, ‘Have you seen w'hat my wife looked like? The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

They jerk up their feet with cocky roosterness as if they have not yet heard about the two-legged beasts who are going to make slaves of their wives. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Every man on that list has kin within the city. Sons and brothers, wives and daughters, mothers and fathers. Let my Brazen Beasts seize them. Their lives will win you back those ships.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They spent their days breathing in toxic coal dust and asbestos, which they brought home to their wives and daughters, who inhaled it while shaking the men’s clothes out for the wash. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The woodcutter and his wife made them welcome and shared gladly what they had. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

He warned me I’d get a shock when I met his wife, she was such a dead ringer for Carole Lombard. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Winston was married—had been married, at any rate; probably he still was married, for so far as he knew his wife was not dead. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“My wife never thought of this,” said one, and he bought some crystal—he was entertaining guests that night, and the guests would be impressed by the beauty of the glassware. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Graham had thought twice this time, however, for he knew that just a few months earlier Geyer had lost his wife, Martha, and his twelve-year-old daughter, Esther, in a house fire. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Ah, they were divine. General Beauregard himself made an appearance. He was such a scoundrel. He was on his second wife, then, but you should have seen the way he looked at Lisbeth Cooper—” “Mother!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Miss Trotter poked her sister and said, “Slim Jim Trotter and his two wives.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“We were also hoping to find some information about his wife,” Brandon said. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Now, because of his own work, he must be ready to bum his wife. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apparently, the police had a suspect in custody, but Mrs. Holman, the loving wife, was the impatient type. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Brave Orchid knew how the little wives maneuvered; her father had had two little wives. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Miss Armstrong was to become a wife instead of a worn-out glove. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Yeah, Gatsby's very careful about women. He would never so much as look at a friend's wife." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Let’s go home,” his wife was saying to him as she balanced a heavy basket on her head. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

That wasn’t what he was telling her at all; maybe the ghost was just repeating his wife’s name, Sing, and Pilate didn’t know it because she never knew her mother’s name. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

His wife wept, but he was utterly bewildered. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

They were conversing in low voices, perhaps arguing, and the young wife appeared worried at what her husband was saying. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

The husband was out at the time, and so it was easy for the wife to show the things that he carried with him. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Instead, through clenched teeth, she warned, “Stop talking, or I’m going to hex you to be my toad’s wife.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

She was obviously the junior wife since she was doing most of the work. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fridays are devoted to Civilization Night, when classes are held for brothers and sisters in the area of the domestic relations, emphasizing how both husbands and wives must understand and respect each other’s true natures. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t just Auntie An-mei’s little brother, but also his wife’s stepbrothers and stepsisters, and a distant cousin, and that cousin’s husband and that husband’s uncle. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My wife is one of those paragons— a woman who does not talk very much.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When his mother, Frigga, the wife of Odin, heard this she determined to protect him from the least chance of danger. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cabinet members and their wives were scheduled to follow on the regularly scheduled train to New Jersey later that morning. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

"Maester Luwin, I trust you as I would my own blood. Give my wife your voice in all things great and small. Teach my son the things he needs to know. Winter is coming." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Pah! You are too soft. He needs only two things: a wife to rein him in and his own bloody kingdom to rule,” the king growled in reply. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

But then this Isabelle turned and laughed and in that instant I saw my wife. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t want to be a priest’s wife or move to Greece. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Harlem, as my wife said, was the Soweto of America. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually, when it was clear that she was not a woman for bearing a child, Pitipiti’s husband married another wife. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

In nearly every one are tales of academic success against tremendous odds: a battered wife or a combat veteran or a laid-off worker on the way to a better life. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been playing bridge twice a week for eleven years,” Eleanor said, “with my mother and her lawyer and his wife—I’m sure you must play as well as that.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Charles, stop it! Stop it, I tell you! You keep your filthy mouth shut about my wife!” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Proud of a man and his wife, proud of a cause and a heartbeat that was a metronome for us long before the crossover audience considered them worthy of praise. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

"In Kielce, I would have had a wife and a child by now." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Here’s to the Minister of Poisonwood. And here’s to his five wives!” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is common among the Dinka for a man to have more than one wife. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I called the police, using my phone, and told the man I would continue trying to reach his wife. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Clara’s retinue was gradually pushed into the back rooms of the house, and an invisible border arose between the parts of the house occupied by Esteban Trueba and those occupied by his wife. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their marriage was brief and confusing—especially given that her new husband, it turned out, already had a wife in Nairobi. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Fond as he was of his only child, useful as she was in his house since his wife had died, lately he had begun to chafe under her devotion. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s tough, it’s tough for your wife and children to sit up there and listen to some of the stuff they have to listen to,” he said. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

"My wives will beat me and call me fool, but I am a helpless child in your hands. Come, right, that is less than it is worth." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Farmers trekked into town with their children and wives streaming around them. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a wife and child to support, there was no thought of his returning to school. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“And batteries. Got a very large collection of batteries. My wife thinks I’m mad, but there you are.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Sweet sadness filled the room as man and wife and babe faded like the morning mist, only the music lingering behind to speed her on her way. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Must be the Roman road the shopkeeper’s wife mentioned,” Baba says. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

After some days the farmer’s wife came to the barn and said, “You must not run away. There is a new law. All children must work on the farms.” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t seem like a landlord’s wife, I suddenly thought. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mackenzie went to wash his hands, and his wife listened to the anxious running feet and the thuds that followed until she could bear it no longer, certain that he would harm himself. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Go see if you can help your mother. Don’t know what made the wife plan this all sudden-like,” he grumbled. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The perfect opportunity arose a few weeks later, when Robert and his wife, Kitty, invited Haakon and his wife, Barbara, over for dinner. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. But I don’t want to be a politician’s wife.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

My wife is home in the bed and I have to take care of her too. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He handed the note across to his wife. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A wife has to look her best when her husband comes home,” she always says. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Or worse, he pictured a wife with no throat. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite Park’s anger—at the rottenness of North Korea, at his wife, at himself—he always carried himself with dignity, especially when it was time to eat. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

"To drive the lesson home, Lord Tywin gave my wife to a barracks of his guardsmen to use as they pleased, and commanded me to watch." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And Mr. Clutter, expressing sympathy, said by all means to take the morning off, and if there was any way he or his wife could help, please let them know. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

In time, he heard his wife’s labored, rhythmic breathing and knew she was asleep. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Zeus’s jealous wife, Hera, was the direct cause of her misfortunes, but back of them all was Zeus himself. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not hard to envision Fletcher’s fate, and perhaps his wife’s as well. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“I asked Jesus to save me my wife.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mishu glances at his wife, raising his eyebrows in a question. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mackenzie sat at a table, puffing peacefully on a pipe, and working at the minute, intricate rigging of a model schooner, while his wife read Three Men in a Boat aloud to him. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Etty had no children but was a devoted wife and aunt. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

My wife and I did not really mourn being empty nesters, but the house now had several empty bedrooms. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

But this happened only rarely; typically, husband and wife ignored each other. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, I once had occasion to ask him if a certain gentleman expected at the house was likely to be accompanied by his wife. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I was just wondering, that’s all. Seems to me if your wife up and left, you’d go after her, wouldn’t you?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s husband, Henry, encouraged his wife and her friend Susan B. Anthony to lead work in support of the amendment. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

When the woman’s husband saw his wife coming down the path, followed by a lion, he let out a great shout. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

During the evening of their first day at the cattle post, Dimo’s wife brought water to the hut to wash the hands of the men before they had food. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

And his poor wife, of course, got turned to a pillar of salt. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nanna, his wife, went to look at it for the last time; her heart broke and she fell to the deck dead. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

My wife Betty put down the phone after taking one message, and it was ringing again. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Qareeb was happily living in Los Angeles with his wife and toddler son. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He relocated to Georgia because, he found out belatedly, his wife refused to live anywhere else. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It was a present he was about to give his wife, a white satin box containing a star sapphire cocktail ring. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They searched and searched all along the river and in the bush beside it, but there was no trace of the new wife. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“I program an automatic resetting for three hours later,” his wife said sleekly. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

But for the moment, the joyful expectation of seeing my wife and children again after seven weeks over-whelmed all other feelings. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Martin related the story of a man in town who had been trying to rid himself of his wife for years, to no avail. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

One night I read to Gertrude about a jealous official who killed his wife with poisoned salad greens because she had taken a young lover. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

There they paused, since Lumumba’s wife and son were hungry and needed to eat. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look at this,” his wife said one afternoon as she sat on the floor of their room near a picture of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“She looks sickly and cross. Yes, she will do for him very well. She will make him a very proper wife.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

His wife, whom we called Gogo, was warm, affectionate, and a splendid cook who was liberal with her helpings. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like one of those wives who wakes up one morning and says I can’t bake any more bread. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

They allowed him to kiss his wife and daughters and to say good-bye to each. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Now only Baraa and his wife are on the beach with the Turks. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Adam stopped the work. He thought the hammering might disturb his wife.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun was sure that the pastor and his wife would have been rescued by that point, but just to be certain, he and Nasser made a detour and paddled over to Robert Street. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Old John and his wife: he would have none else. He is quite broken down, they say.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

"Tell him, wife. Tell the Lord Crow how well content we are." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Morgan is a blockhead,” he wrote to his wife. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

When Mahmoud declared that this was the place for them, his wife laughed. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you kiss your wife, Chino? Dag,” Negra said, but I felt so useless and stupid that I didn’t want to disturb the universe or Blanca anymore. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

You can see my dad proudly mouthing “Look at my wife!” several times throughout the night. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Father stared at the trees, giving no indication he’d heard his poor frightened wife, or any of this news. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Wyoming, a group of the wives of elected officials had worked behind the scenes to convince their husbands to support female suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

His hatred of his wife glittered and sparked in every word he spoke to her. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coal wives bring pig knuckles and cheese; they pass around Werner’s acceptance letter; the ones who can read, read it aloud to the ones who cannot, and Jutta comes home to a crowded, exhilarated room. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The farmer’s wife came and gave me water and a carrot to eat. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“Jeremy—Attorney Fitzgerald—was in a car accident an hour ago. He’s still in the hospital. His wife says he’s fine, just a few bruises. But he won’t be back until late this afternoon.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

In April 1921 his wife, a well-known pacifist and suffragette named Jessie Hardy Stubbs, flung herself off a bridge over the East River in New York and drowned. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the fact that nobody showed signs of having been infected, the Elgon Masai could tell stories of how a family member, a child or a young wife, had died bleeding in someone’s arms. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"That's my second wife. She came over from Hong Kong two years ago." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

In front of his parents, I was an obedient wife, just as they taught me. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Domineering, complaining, demanding wives who had just about psychologically castrated their husbands were responsible for the early rush. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You want me to wait for your wife?” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Mr. DiAngelo had told the police he couldn’t remember what clothes his wife or son wore that morning, but he knew they had on yellow life jackets. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“His wife was present the entire evening,” explained Franklin. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You don't know what you're asking, Jon. The Night's Watch is a sworn brotherhood. We have no families. None of us will ever father sons. Our wife is duty. Our mistress is honor." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And the bodies were an aspiration, lucrative as Indian land, a veranda, a beautiful wife, or a summer home in the mountains. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” said his wife, lying back cold in the ship. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Derby’s face softened as he put his arm around his wife’s shoulders and gave her what seemed to be a reassuring hug. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

So they can give a nice, unblemished apartment to some nice German officer and his law-abiding wife with clean hair and mended stockings. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Now what Pechvarry and his wife and the witch saw was this: the young wizard had stopped midway in his spell, and held the child a while motionless. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Lizabeth and the judge’s wife set in big chairs and they talk in low voices that didn’t sound friendly. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

His wife regularly wrote him lengthy, urgent and impassioned letters requesting money for food, clothing, rent, medicine, school fees, books, seeds and money to repair broken ploughs and leaking roofs. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clients were getting their cars on time, vendors were getting paid on time, and they would say, “Hey, Abie, this workshop is going so much better now that your wife has taken over.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I sat one day with a man who’d gone off young and healthy to an overseas deployment, leaving behind a pregnant wife, and had come back quadriplegic, unable to move his arms or legs. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Well, and it is dearer than jade to have them at us like this,” the young man argued, “and to endure besides their haughtiness and the young man peeping at my wife.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

But at Mqhekezweni, religion was a part of the fabric of life and I attended church each Sunday along with the regent and his wife. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Face it, my dear, your husband and I are running a firm of shysters,” a takeover attorney explains to the wife of his law partner. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Charles ended his letter with another hope, a most heartfelt prayer: “We must be more and more to each other, my dear wife.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He often put Gimpy in charge of the shop when he had to go out, and I had heard stories of the times Donner gave Gimpy money to pay his wife’s hospital bills. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

But in reality he was the son of Zeus, who had visited Amphitryon’s wife Alcmena in the shape of her husband when the general was away fighting. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

His wife had given birth to four strong sons, but in the king’s reign, he had been forced to ride into battles to preserve the peace of his kingdom. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

It has never occurred to him to buy his wife flowers. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Surrounding a small framed photograph of his wife and his two beastly sons were three telephones with flashing lights. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

The wife was bent over her husband as the soldiers squashed into the car and drove to the bar. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Thank you. If you’ll excuse me, I need to tell my wife the news.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Stannis had never been enamored of his wife, but he was bristly as a hedgehog where his honor was concerned and mistrustful by nature. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Exceed their income! My dear Mr. Bennet,” cried his wife, “what are you talking of? Why, he has four or five thousand a year, and very likely more.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

My wife flew in from the East for her brief visit. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

His wife at his side, Arabella’s father stood at the wrought-iron gates of his estate, first pleading with his daughter to reconsider her decision, then in desperation ordering her not to go. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I began thinking I never really loved my wife. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Myrta’s parents were cool at first, but he courted their approval with moist-eyed declarations of regret and displays of adoration for his wife and child. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“What then if his wife cannot accompany him?” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have to kill him because slowly, almost effortlessly and with complete contempt, this man kills his wife and child every night. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

There were caves everywhere running into the cloud, and at the entrances to the caves the Cloud-Men’s wives were crouching over little stoves with frying-pans in their hands, frying snowballs for their husbands’ suppers. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

My father sounded unsure but not at all surprised by his wife’s foul mouth. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Or “I’m sure you do a good job at money management. However, did you know most wives outlive their husbands? If something should happen to you, would she be able to handle everything by herself?” The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

No sooner had they finished the last morsel than Mzizi and the new wife heard the sound of singing coming from their stomachs. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

His wife stepped in from the kitchen, greasing a muffin tin. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Derby, his voice full of self-control, spoke calmly and clearly to his wife. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said the words, then braced myself for a wave of humiliation—for that image to invade my thoughts, of me, one of many wives standing behind a solitary, faceless man—but it didn’t come. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The constable went home to his wife and children. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“You want her? Then I must tell you things about my wife.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

If he was discovered in a hotel room with a woman not his wife, his name would appear in the section of the newspaper reserved for public shaming. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The consul’s wife smiled tensely and said, “Oh, dear, that’s too bad,” which baffled Mami completely, as she thought Yale was the school where the best families in the United States educated their sons. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

When we drove into his carport, his wife stood in the shadows beside the house. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

If so, why did Rasheed insist that she cover when he thought nothing of looking at the private areas of other men’s wives and sisters? A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He said he was from New York but had lived and studied in Mexico City, where he met his wife, who was from Oaxaca. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

He may choose at length to tell it to his brother, or his wife, or his friend, yet even those few will never use it where any third person may hear it. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Abel wanted a traditional marriage with a traditional wife. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But he seemed to be just able to bear it, from his wife. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Begin when all the rest who left behind them headlong death in battle or at sea had long ago returned, while he alone still hungered for home and wife. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He should have told his wife about this meeting, dragged her along. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of himself he did not speak, of wife or children or parents or home. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am almost seventy years old,” said the father, “and haven’t taken a second wife, and don’t plan to now.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was who he became to save his wife, and all his people. So much blood on his hands, so much hate in his hearts. The gods had created their own undoing.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Bull Meecham was approaching that prime meridian of inebriation that his wife, his sons, and his daughters, based on a grievously embattled history, had come to fear. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Lots of times,” Carl said cruelly, and he avoided his wife’s eyes. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d dropped out his sophomore year after his son was born, because his wife was sick and there was a mound of medical bills. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He committed suicide while vacationing in Florida with his wife. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

At the time, a wife could own property in three-quarters of the states, and she could keep her own paycheck in two-thirds of the states. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He and his wife had just gone to bed in their upstairs bedroom when they heard a violent explosion that not only destroyed the front of their home, it shattered windows throughout the neighborhood. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Fine, maybe I only tried it one time, but I'm still convinced it's an old Persian wives' tale. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He hesitated then said, “You make him feel better, ease his woe and all that...but could you compel him to do something? Maybe make him forget his wife?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

That night, Guy watched his wife very closely as she undressed for bed. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Min’s wife placed the cloth package in his hands. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

His wife attributes his death to die judgment of God. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Garfield tried to relax by spending free time with his wife and children. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then the wife who had been so charming and ready to smile changed into a silent shadow that played infrequently along the walls. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just bring your wife or your husband, bring your children. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

We wander to the dance stages, filled with pairs: husbands and wives, fathers and daughters, siblings, friends. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“My wife never had to work. I was right in the middle of middle-class America and I knew it and I loved it.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

But it was either this—doing what he had done— or lose his wife and children, for good. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had kept her secret even from the captain’s wife. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“He don't talk. That don’t mean he can’t. Only reason he don’t is cause he found his wife in bed with another man long time ago, and ain’t found nothing to say since then.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because of the harsh conditions, some husbands refused to allow their wives to go to jail, and paid the fines instead. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Women especially. That must have been the case with your wife. She had courage for every other thing but that. She could not face pain. Well, she was spared that at any rate.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“She’s so overwhelmed with gratitude! And so excited to start a new life as a wife and mother!” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Do not speak any more. In the morning we will sell the pearl, and then the evil will be gone, and only the good remain. Now hush, my wife.” The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Claire could picture the fisherman arriving home in weather just like this to find a squalling infant and a wife turned blue and lost. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

"Looks like he's going to work instead of staying home like his wife wanted." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Perhaps I was blinded to certain things because of the pain I felt for not being able to fulfill my role as a husband to my wife and a father to my children. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although just about everyone in town knew his name, he almost never went out because it was hard to find a babysitter, which was all right because he loved his wife and three boys. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The husband and wife, reaching the woods, separated in search of game. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was smaller than the Kidwells’, and, moreover, he shared it with a wife, three active children, and a perpetually functioning television set. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What do you think his wife will say when she sees him?” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“My wife and I are very glad to meet you, sir. Please remember that there is always a welcome waiting for you over the way.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He sent me fifty dollars. Mom says he loves somebody else. Not a kid. A grown-up. He might get another wife.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

The man was the head of the household, and his wife, along with everything she possessed, was his property. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

He disappeared, along with his wife, a few months after Shin dropped the sewing machine. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Then, when Rob’s wife went to remonstrate with him, he hit her, hard, in the face. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Mr. Chung had died recently and his wife was going to have to get a job to support her three little girls. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I am and the SIM find out, they’ll make me carry it to full term, then give it to some childless general’s wife like the story Magdalena told me. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All he needed was a messenger, someone to tell his wife that he was alive. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“My wife and baby are healthy. Let me just drive through so I can get to Bethlehem by nightfall. We won’t stop for nothing.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t need your best friend when you’ve got your future wife around, so I’ll just talk to you again in a couple weeks when this is over.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Hale’s wife, his eighteen-year-old daughter, and his many boisterous supporters clustered behind the defense table. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He told me his wife was a chemist who worked with Cuban scientists on top- secret projects developing products from sugarcane. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The paper rustled to the floor and Weston turned a weary face toward his wife, “What is it, dear?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Our house was tiny, and Scott slept in the sitting room, Dlamini and his wife slept in another room, and we put all the children in the kitchen. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She may not be a princess, but she would make a worthy wife for any lord. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The way was a gray, timeless, eventless tunnel, but at the end of it was the one shining reality—my own wife, my own house in my own street, my own bed. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He kept his body busy so that his mind wouldn’t have a chance to think: about the growing coldness of his wife, or the way their crime pursued them. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

"Sadly your father died some years ago, Kabir. And all these years, we never knew he had a wife. Or a son. Not until the cook called us looking for your father." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Crazy Horse sat with Black Shawl, his wife. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Mahmoud and his wife went looking all over Syria for a new home, a place far from the water. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

This fellow ought to have thought about that before he killed his wife. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“She looks like my first wife,” he announced. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dayee Mohammad's wife was the first to greet me, and I asked her how my grandmother was doing. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The junior wife came in with a bowl of boiled potatoes covered with a gray sauce. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

His wife did not work; rumor had it that Mrs. Henry Pearson had been forbidden by her husband from holding a job. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

His wife was initially unable to sleep, wondering, “How do you raise two young boys in this kind of environment?” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Several hours later, when Kyril Montana walked through the front door of his comfortable home in an all-white suburban section of the capital called Pinon Knoll, his wife Marilyn greeted him with a courteous hug. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

His wife has written to him from the little home in Poland where she lives, telling him that she has saved up enough money to pay for the fare and is coming to see him. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

With each group came cries of relief, relatives diving under the rope to lead off their husbands, wives, children, parents, siblings. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The Inka’s sister-wives accompanied him on military forays, along with a few hundred or thousand of his subordinate wives. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In his wife Adam had touched the living world. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had farm animals to take care of, and books to read, and a wife he loved. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I wanted to be his wife, his mother. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

They all run after the farmer’s wife, She cut off their tails with a carving knife, Did you ever see such a sight in your life, As three... blind... mice? Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He glared without wavering at the wife of the accused man, and she glared at him in return. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

My theory was he didn’t know who to jump on first, the insulting Underdowns or his cussing wife, so he just stood there brewing like a coffeepot. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A girl might spend her life at play, but she was a woman grown, a queen, a wife, a mother to thousands. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He is survived by his wife, Dr. Crystal Stanley-Bell, and his twin sons, Joshua and Jordan, who recently won their first county championship. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

“All right. I'll tell you. Principal Peattie has a mad wife and he's hidden her in the school attic, except that every so often she escapes.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“No. He never heard a sound. But his wife was nursing a sick baby. He said they were up and down the whole night.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elegant ambassadors with their fancy wives on their arms pick snacks off silver trays. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

His first wife was only able to have one child, which was why he married again. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Claudius not only wears my father's crown, but he weds my father's wife!” he said in a tone of disbelief. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

But most Pashtun men would ignore their wives. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The judge’s wife look at Biddy and I could see her bottom lip kinda straighten out, like she caught a whiff of cauliflower. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Serber had come under attack because of the leftist associations of his friends and his wife, Charlotte. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children,” the recruits promised, in voices that echoed back through years and centuries. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I mean I really wished I had a wife and kids, somebody somewhere that loved me in a way I could look forward to going back to the World to. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

For nine months, she spends night after night patiently listening to drunken men talk about their problems, how they miss their wives and children left behind in Mexico. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

His good-looking plump wife sat filing her fingernails at the other end of the counter. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The man’s wife chopped it up and they used the wood for their cooking fire. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

"Do you mean he would make me his wife by force?" exclaimed Susan. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Chioke, the junior wife, would be tending the pot of watery soup balanced on three stones over the fire. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

At the black empathy box his wife crouched, her face rapt. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen, waiting for his wife to give the ready sign, Bull poured himself a cup of coffee, drank it black, and felt the heat surge into his belly and flood through his body. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled out the decorations his dead wife and dead daughter bought and pretended to be a man who had lost too much and survived it. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“The mother says it’s still her babe, but the father came through here just yesterday. Looked as though he’d lost everything. He said the child is a monster, and his wife has gone mad.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

In the corner, he pours himself and his wife something brown. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Is that my fault? That he couldn’t have a mature conversation with his wife?” she growls. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She sang along with grizzled old serving men and anxious young wives, with serving girls and soldiers, cooks and falconers, knights and knaves, squires and spit boys and nursing mothers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Curses and abuse go wife him, but not far. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess I was scared of seeing him as a crazy person. The tales got wilder and wilder as the years went by. That he’d had five wives, who all left him, for example.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She accepted his offer to be his wife, and together they had the children of Orléans. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

"Ah. You have to remember, many of the archaeologists were lonely Victorian men working far, far away from home and their wives. They tended to get...overexcited in their translations." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He worried that his wife’s taking such a radical stand could harm his political future, so he encouraged Elizabeth to drop the proposal and threatened to leave town if she read the resolution. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Truman hurried into the White House and was taken up to the second floor, to an office used by Eleanor Roosevelt, the president’s wife. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe that rooster of yours can do your wife a favor.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“You’d be sad, too, if your husband had abandoned you for another wife,” Grandmother said harshly. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Patch-Withers’ face was reaching a brilliant shade, and his wife’s head fell as though before the guillotine. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the daytime, it was hard to believe what had happened to Gomo’s son and wife. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He’s standing at the edge of the sidewalk with his wife, Minnie, looking at a dog lying in the gutter.There is blood all around the dog’s head. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Lucas motioned to his wife, then eyed Hazel. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

His family said he had been despondent over the heart attacks he had suffered recently and the death of his wife the year before. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They have wives who make pies for them.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Bending, he gently removed his wife’s fingers from the twin handles. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The news item on page seven was the first account of his wife’s death that Shadow had read. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

But alone with his wife and children he turned into a monstrous, suspicious bully, with a streak of vicious cunning. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man downstairs felt so bad he went inside and shot himself, too, and now his wife has gone crazy with the grief of it. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

A little over six months later, he was reunited with his wife and son, who joined him in Moscow. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

This may seem like a small, out of the way place we have here, sir,' his wife said. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was an old speller—probably the one Weylin’s first wife had been taught from. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Did he tell you his wife blew her lunch all over the Cordova?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then my dad got worried that the father’s wife’s family was going to accuse me of breaking up their marriage and come after us. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“Nothing that the honorable potter’s wife could ask would be too much,” he answered. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

It was Dr. Cramp piping in here, plugging his wife. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Once I was sure she wasn’t going to hit me with a eucalyptus stick as punishment, I smiled inside, because that rotten, lying thief Alfonso and his wife got what they deserved. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, he said, don’t be surprised when your own daughter or wife wants to shoot a bow and arrow behind your back. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

One man named Collins had lost his entire family—his wife, his two daughters, his son, and his son’s wife and child—early in the plague. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

He wanted to protect his wife from his family's violent tendencies, but he couldn't exactly disown his parents. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

This was a forlorn hope--he was almost sure that Wilson had no friend: there was not enough of him for his wife. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

A man with long gray hair is lying on a bench, with his head on his wife's lap. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

They bugged his home and listened in on his conversations with his wife. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“He is the one wife belonging to many white men.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deciding that his wife had found the perfect partner, the podiatrist moved on to the two women standing in silence at the front window. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

When two months had passed without a single reply to the advertisement, Haldar and his wife felt vindicated. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

His father’s second wife had died a few years later, before George’s remembering. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

"They naturally would have taken my wife to a concentration camp," Neubauer said. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Did he choose not to come to his wife’s funeral? The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“They aren’t my family,” the farmer said as he motioned for his wife to climb aboard. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For Mr. Castle's wife and her huddled Nerves. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Even so, the social columnists still did not write about his wife’s dresses when he and she attended the opera, the way they described the nightly couture of mesdames Palmer, Pullman, and Armour. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Shelly was Dusty’s second or third wife, after Jasper Jr.’s mother,” he said. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“You can cast witchcraft out into a goat—or as many goats as you need. I want you to cure my elder wife.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Lalo was sullen when anyone asked, and he said it was his wife who had rented her the rooms above the bar. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then, with Evers’s wife and young children watching, De La Beckwith shot him in the back. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The kids had no idea how much Karl Larson had hated seeing his wife’s job get harder and harder over the years. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

As the heavy door finally closed, Matthew Wood turned fiercely toward his wife. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

My dad had three kids with his new wife and in the process, he forgot about his eldest daughters. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I followed the sheriff’s officers inside the house, where a group of them were talking to the man’s wife, who was also trying to tend to her two children. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Then he assigned his wife her part: next day she brought his bow and iron axeheads out to make a contest. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were four young guys, college types, and one of them had his wife and lad with him. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he finally breaks free, he straightens his lapels and glowers at his now-sulking wife. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

She said that yes, Papi had another wife, and there was no chance we would ever live with him again. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The only person who knew was my wife. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton and his wife fell ill with the fever on September 5, and left the city. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The young man stuck a dilapidated hat with a broken feather on his head and his wife picked up a bottle of rum and poured it over the front of his torn jacket. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

While Senator Trueba attempted to alter his country’s destiny, his wife sailed masterfully through the agitated seas of social life and the other, more surprising ones of her spiritual voyage. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the smaller sitting rooms had been cleared for him and his wife and four assistants, one of whom was fanning him with a gilded fan although the air conditioner was on. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

When his wife had a heart attack soon after the charrette, C.P. called Howard in a panic, unable to think what to do. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Y-yes. Only my wife had pneumonia recently, and she is still weak from it.” Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

When the physicist Robert Marshank got a similar letter, he announced to his wife that they were leaving immediately. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dog barked nearby and now she could hear arguing: a hubby shouting at his wife, a tyke being slapped. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Dinka men always have more than one wife. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z