The portico led up to the guest house, where no guests ever stayed: only Desdemona, for a short time with her husband and a long time alone. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Cook had mentioned that Mr. Henry had come with Mrs. Caruthers when she came north from Virginia as a young woman to marry her husband. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“How dare she choose her own husband. She must have thought she was a free woman or something.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Then go on and throw that no-good husband out the door.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Her husband would get a job in some great clanging organism of progress, and they would live happily ever after. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beatrice’s husband was a paymaster, a man whose job it was to hand out wages to employees of the former government, and the men at the door wanted whatever cash he could get. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Nor did Meg miss any of the romance from the daily parting, when her husband followed up his kiss with the tender inquiry, “Shall I send some veal or mutton for dinner, darling?” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gherland laid his hand on the shoulder of the perplexed husband and gave a gentle squeeze. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Lady Selyse was as tall as her husband, than of body and thin of face, with prominent ears, a sharp nose, and the faintest hint of a mustache on her upper lip. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

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

And Tessie, so used to feeling the world through her husband, saw that my problem was getting worse, was accelerating. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But it was a lot more unusual for a wife to have more than one husband. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She had no understanding of her husband’s work and, having been raised among the minor rural gentry, she despised his impecunious profession. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I worry for him & when I say 1 I mean my husband too for my husband respects our Dad. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

An unusual number of husbands, fathers, and friends had come down to stay over Sunday, and they were being suitably entertained by their families, with the material help of Madame Lebrun. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps you would like to wash before we eat—the tap is outside, my husband will show you.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

By February, Laxmi’s cousin’s husband still hadn’t come to his senses. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

When my husband Clyde left me for that no-count hussy up on Farish Street, one they call Cocoa, I figured I better shut the door for good on that kind a business. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

My uncle pointed to a corner in the living room where I could sleep, and then gave me detailed instructions on how to get to the bank, to meet Alois, my cousin’s husband. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He reassured her that he would do everything possible for her husband. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“His father is another King’s man,” said her husband. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

And there remains the mother, bound and gagged and having to listen as her husband, her beloved children died one by one. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I bet your Persian husband and children praise your culinary skills. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

My husband started walking them back to the car. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out in the driveway, she saw that Trip’s Jeep was gone, as was Lexie’s Explorer, and Moody’s bike, and, of course, her husband’s sedan. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He made passionate love to her, always reminding her, too, that her husband had forsaken her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hatsue settled into missing her husband and learned the art of waiting over an extended period of time—a deliberately controlled hysteria that was something like what Ishmael Chambers felt watching her in the courtroom. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The normal, adult bed—“in which my late husband breathed his last,” said Mrs. Horsepool-Worthingham—was moved out. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Or was she floating amongst the trains and masses of Lithuanians, searching for her husband? Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“My sister Margaret was the nurse on duty in the emergency room when they brought in her husband and our mother. Margarets husband died that night.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

On the other hand Liza, who surely loved her family as deeply as did her husband, was not destroyed or warped. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Women love their children and their husbands at the same time—and men often feel a lusty thought for one woman while they are feeling a love of the heart for another. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ferula had come to love Clara with a jealous passion that resembled that of a demanding husband more than it did that of a sister-in-law. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You was more handsome than that fool,” she said in tones of delight, watching her husband scamper across the field, tilting with the children, playing the Babylon King. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

How could you become anything without a husband? A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My son sucked one liter from my husband’s car this morning, just so I can get to the market. O di egwu. I hope fuel comes soon.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

"No, but it disturbs me to read that the woman's wrongdoing led her husband to kill her. She was more weak than wicked," I said. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“That is all we have to say,” the Mom-twin snapped, then gently guided her husband out of the camera’s range. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, I think maybe my ankle was tied to my husband’s and sister-in-law’s both.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

In the next room, her husband moaned from a hospital bed, just days from death. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Wow...look at that...he’s not here now! So why not have a go? They might be able to find you a double cell in Azkaban with your loser of a husband!” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Some folks swore she was a witch; a few misguided harpies insinuated she had poisoned or otherwise murdered the three husbands who had died on her. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In part, people accused her of impropriety because she shared her home with both her husband and her ex-husband. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Her husband was Amphion, a son of Zeus and an incomparable musician. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. Well, no. I don’t. My husband does.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She knew without seeing him that here was no monster or shape of terror, but the lover and husband she had longed and waited for. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘It comes from years of loving children and husbands,’ she’d say.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And if the dear Lord can forgive me for all the times I wished my husband dead,” said Angelina, crossing herself, “surely he has forgiven poor Agnes her sin.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Truth be told, I would rather have had a sister than a husband, especially a husband like the one I had. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Miriam, stroking Jacob’s small back, looked from her husband to Michelangelo. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“My husband the millionaire,” she said, dreaming of Florida retirement. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was in these fields my mother first caught the eye of her future husband. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Her husband, on the other hand, was like an oak: “He may be torn up by the roots. He may break. But he will never bend.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

When the burly guy with the beads—the praying woman’s husband—asked if I was going to get sick, I said I might. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Best you stay away. She’s a nosy gossiper, that one. And the husband fancies himself some kind of educated intellectual. But he’s a mouse. Look at him. Doesn’t he look like a mouse?” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The husbands of her closest friends began to flirt with her. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

As she spoke I could see her husband’s face darken and draw together, as though the passion in him were shrivelling his being to its core. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Here is the baby holding hands with her husband and family and staring up at the stars. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Her husband would have made a good Nazi. She used to joke about it—though never when he could hear.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

In the mornings Brave Orchid and her husband arose at 6 a.m. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

This would be the moment that Aziz—peeking from between a row of spark plugs—would see her new husband stop up a volcanic rage, as if it was a bottled djinn. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

But Fernanda confessed to her that she was just letting two weeks go by before allowing the first contact with her husband. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Teresita’s husband said we could rest here. Why do we have to be so careful?” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

As it was, she’d become increasingly busy due to the explosion of interest about her husband, and the preparations for the release of X: The Movie. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her husband’s family hadn’t had their money very long and what they had “didn’t ’mount to much.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Ken did not return by a specific time, she was to gather the children and leave immediately, knowing that her husband had been nabbed by the KGB. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“From when my husband was admitted for severe injuries to both his hands.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Where would she or her husband find work? Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

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

If they thought that would force her to alter her manner, admit she needed to look for a husband—they were wrong. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Working with her new husband, Pierre, Curie found that certain kinds of rocks poured out constant and extraordinary amounts of energy, yet without diminishing in size or changing in any detectable way. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Clara continued with her life, ignoring her husband and refusing to speak to him. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

To Beatrice, it appeared as if Lonna was afraid that the boy’s quirky behavior might annoy her new husband, though Leon Leep seemed not to notice. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She realized she wasn’t sad about Aunt Rose—the pain of losing her was balanced by the knowledge that the old woman was with her beloved husband in a much better place. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Her husband had always stated most emphatically that he wished all his children to be educated in English schools. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just bring your wife or your husband, bring your children. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Journalists inevitably asked Fischer about the risks associated with the kind of climbing he did and wondered how he reconciled it with being a husband and father. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

She cast her sights about—her daughters ducked—and found her husband's office in need. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

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

Elizabeth, however, had never been blind to the impropriety of her father’s behaviour as a husband. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

She went back to the house and informed the Japanese man that her husband would be with him shortly; he’d been out among the raspberry canes working. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Her husband wrote that he is spending time with many Lithuanian friends.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

She remembered again what her husband had said—how easy to unlock a door when you have the key. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

As for their mother, Mr. Collins’s letter had done away much of her ill-will, and she was preparing to see him with a degree of composure which astonished her husband and daughters. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

She was shocked by various discoveries: “Inside the hands,” she informed her husband, “the mavros are white like us.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Hannah had spoken as though her husband, so many years dead, were still here in the little house. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Deborah had her husband hang dark curtains on their windows and stopped answering her phone. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

And her husband had his arms around her, saying, like, ‘Sweetheart, these fellows don’t mean to hurt anybody. All they want is some money.’ In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn't even met her husband yet, and they're married seventeen years. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Her husband is with Sonia, listening to their youngest recite poetry in that beautiful lilting voice of hers: "I wandered lonely as a cloud, that floats on high o'er vales and hills..." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When her husband found out, things quickly turned ugly. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Nurse Duckett had decided to marry a doctor—any doctor, because they all did so well in business— and would not take chances in the vicinity of the man who might someday be her husband. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Her husband was a pious man who spent most of his days and nights in the house of study. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She seems to think of us as her husband’s favored hounds: poorly trained and likely to turn on our master at any moment. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It’s not the husbands you have to watch out for, said Aunt Lydia, it’s the Wives. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thank you for my share of the favour,” said Elizabeth; “but I do not particularly like your way of getting husbands.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

So Harry had been brought up by his dead mother’s sister and her husband. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Aunt Carrie’s husband left her when she was pregnant with Johnny’s brother, Will. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

She told him she would have to talk to her husband. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“And is there a day when the husbands fast for their wives? No, of course not!” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

She wept silently to herself for the pain of her husband, for the death and the dishonor of their sons. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

But she had told Nate a few things about her husband—that he was joyful like Theo and had those same bright eyes, that not one hour went by without her missing him. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Celia grieves for her husband, not for his death, not yet, but for his mixed-up allegiances. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

"On more than that, I hope, sweet lady. I have great esteem for your husband, our new Hand, and I know we do both love King Robert." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When her marriage ended, she had no guidebook to turn to, nothing that plotted a future course for a woman whose husband declared himself gay. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

After delivering a spirited defense of her husband's right to make judicial appointments before he left office, Abigail launched a frontal attack on Jefferson’s character. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The mother heard Iphicles’ screams and, calling to her husband, rushed to the nursery. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

To see me without him, she said, would be to disrespect her husband. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Ay, Pedrito, how can we be true Christians and turn our back on our brothers and sisters—” “Your first responsibility is to your children, your husband, and your home!” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One Sunday in 1967, after services at Carver Presbyterian Church, Katherine Johnson spied a new face in the crowd, a young woman who had come to the church with her husband and two young daughters. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Maria, however, grew less and less interested in dressing up and accompanying her husband to seek patrons among the rich and influential. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Finally, with many thank-yous and bowings and scrapings and warmest wishes to their beautiful wives and distinguished husbands, he departed the room. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Isabelle Derby cried out, “My baby!” and reached for the child on the ground in front of her, but her husband held her firmly. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Surely that lady’s husband wouldn’t really lose his job. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her husband had been killed in the war with the Soviets, and she and her two children lived with her in-laws. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“Your brother got a harder head than your husband did, Janey. His split open the first time I hit him. Made such a mess, I threw him into Charleston Harbor for the ocean to bury.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The surviving twin went to look after the baby and fell in love with her sister’s husband. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

"But if the husband of that tittering Tarkheena friend of yours is paying his head groom to get the best oats, then I think the head groom is cheating him." The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Her husband still knew that the hardest part of the criticism wasn’t what it did to him but what it did to his family. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Peace then seemed to forsake our hut and I could hear my husband and children moving restlessly in their sleep and muttering, whether from hunger or fear I do not know. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her husband stretched his neck in order to see her over his newspaper, “What now, Grace?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Moushumi refers to Nikhil in conversation as “my husband”: “My husband and I have a dinner to go to next Thursday.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her husband would not tolerate praise of the revolution in his home. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama says that was the poor woman’s bad luck, because now she has got to go right on tending after her husband and her seven or eight children. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her husband pulled it out of her hands. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My husband left after that night. And I can’t say I blame him.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I thank God my husband don’ have no what you call it? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Indeed, staring down that night at the baby’s long lashes, the little rosebud mouth half open in deep and contented slumber, she and her husband had felt nothing could be more appropriate. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She had broken the spirits of three husbands, more driving and dynamic than all of them combined. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was borrowing a cup of com flour when her husband threw off his bathrobe and pushed himself on me.” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s a much better match than I am, because this is what bothers her: not that her husband is a liar and a killer, but that he’s just compared her to me. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The worms never get satisfied, regardless of how much food you give them,” she said when Romanians complained about the food shortages brought on by her husband’s mismanagement. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“While my husband’s aunt lives here, my hands are tied.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

We first went to stay with her brother in Orlando East and then later with Evelyn’s sister at City Deep Mines, where her sister’s husband, Msunguli Mgudlwa, worked as a clerk. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had to go home, she said, and see if her husband still loved her. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My gratitude is to you,” Tío Pepe bowed, “and to your children, who sacrificed a husband and a father to liberate our country.” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The Quakers wife was as large and red-faced as her husband, and equally kind. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You are the husband,” repeated Miss Havisham, “of the sister of this boy?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

"I see the faces of slaves. I free you. Take off your collars. Go if you wish, no one shall harm you. If you stay, it will be as brothers and sisters, husbands and wives." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“What was it Teresita’s husband said? ‘Don’t be afraid, take the nearest branch and bash its head in.’ Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Elizebeth’s own favorite term for her profession was cryptanalyst, a word her husband invented. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I want to know how my husband died,” she said. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Ammu sat in the verandah of her home waiting anxiously for her husband to return. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You and your husband have several decisions to make,” he told Mom. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Instead, Cora stood alone, barely whispering that her husband had recently died when the inspectors reached her and poked her with their questions. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

What would it be like to lose a husband of so many years, I wondered. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She spoke graciously to him and Odysseus told her a tale of meeting her husband on his way to Troy which made her weep until he pitied her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Give each of these girls a doll and put it on the bill. Sugar"—she turned to her husband, who had finished clapping the small folder closed—"hold your horses." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

And my husband isn’t really... taking it well, yet I hear you, Ma’am. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have read your letters to poor Lucy, and know how good you are and how your husband suffer; so I pray you, if it may be, enlighten him not, lest it may harm. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Once they were gone, Sharon Gaines entered through the double doors of the held house with some medication for her husband. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You mean I'm going to lose all my hair?" the husband yelled. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Richard,” Cabot’s mom whispered, glaring at her husband from across the table. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“It’s a symbol. It shows that you’ve made a pledge to bring your purity into the marriage. It’s the ultimate gift to your husband.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“I thought you were my husband coming to take me to heaven.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She nodded at her husband as if to confirm something they had talked about. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

‘You are now husband and wife,” the mullah said. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He cried out, “O false and shameless woman, I am your husband. By my own witness you are a traitor.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

A woman holds fast to her husband’s sleeve with one hand and bats him with the other. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

On my desk was a framed photograph of my husband, Thierry, taken in Marseille two years before he died. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“She must. A woman’s place is with her husband.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aru had never gotten sunburned, and she really didn’t need to find a husband at age twelve. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Blanca pretended to accept his explanation, but her husband’s vehemence struck her as suspicious, since he normally paid no attention to her problems. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, he was not there. Just my husband and my children was all that was at home.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It was urgent, the official went on, to “get this patient to some reputable hospital for diagnosis and treatment free from the interference of her husband.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Felicia remembers the moment she decided to murder her husband. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I leave Korea with my husband to come to America, for work. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She told Mr. Breland that she had been working in their store alone because her husband was on a business trip. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

A woman could not have custody of her children if she divorced her husband for any reason; her children—like all of her property—belonged to her husband. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Weston hugged herself for joy and lost no opportunity to triumph over her still skeptical husband. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Since her husband’s death, Celia has devoted herself completely to the revolution. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But because I knew this man would someday be my husband, I put these worthless trinkets carefully into a box, wrapping each with tissue. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She can afford it, thanks to her husband's life insurance. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Unto the woman God said: I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception, in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her husband first wrote the information in a kind of family code, or shorthand. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As long as your husband is not the cook, I will eat okay.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

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

“My husband and I are going to the Bloomer League Centennial Reception at the Hotel.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You do not care, then, about the deaths of her husband and child? They can die, as long as you have what you want?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The pictures he had attached were now the only ones she had of her husband—the only ones she had in Phoenix, anyway. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

But her husband did not seem to notice her. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When I gave away The Revolution,” she explained, “my husband said, ‘Wife, that is a very talented paper; I should think you would preserve that.’ Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

In the palace he found 6-Monkey and her husband, the king of Red and White Bundle. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

When I heard the sound of the car in the drive I got up in sudden panic, glancing at the clock, for I knew that it meant Beatrice and her husband had arrived. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the moms had no husbands, and some of the dads had black lung. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

How hard it was to shower and how lonely she was when her husband was at work. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She had no experience with men save only her husband, and that she looked upon as a tiresome and sometimes painful duty. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Future husband will live to see another day. Go get your boy.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

All right, ma’am, says the sergeant’s wife, a bit of toast, then, and something for the children and your poor husband. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Her husband climbed out himself, but still stood by the car. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Ambition has been the curse of my husband’s life,” Myrta said later. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

And one night, about a month ago, the husband was driving his car a few blocks away, talking to his wife on the phone when he hit another car. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The captain’s wife leaned over to say something to her husband, something that made both of them smile. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They have husbands, and are not taken seriously. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

But I was already married and my husband yet lived, though he had abandoned me and I him. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

You’d better hurry if you want to catch a husband or fall in love, since everything is bound to be a disappointment to you. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Then she opened her rosewood box wherein were the letters her husband had written to her in courtship and since. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“But we’ve paid a fair price already. He’s getting paid good money,” the husband said. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She said she should not have been slapped because she is a full hitman being, not because she doesn’t have a husband to speak for her. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Yes, she is. Gentle. Cheerful. Very loving to her husband.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

"The wife has lost the husband," he said carefully. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They saw their mother only when she would come home to feed them dinner, but as usual, she left their care to the maid and stayed by her husband’s side. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

And in this way she got the media’s funhouse picture of the state of the city via her husband’s relatives halfway around the world. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Madame Lavoisier had an incisive intellect and soon was working productively alongside her husband. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The number of my sister wives would depend on my husband’s righteousness: the more nobly he lived, the more wives he would be given. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I was sorely tempted to cry out the truth, to confess that Hamlet was my husband. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He s like to die the first time he tries to do his duty as a husband. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“He probably got too busy with all the responsibilities of being a husband and father. You know how that is. You know how hard he works.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

What would my noble husband think if he could see me now? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She refuses to be so far from the place where her husband made his life, the country in which he died. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’d quit praying for a husband two years ago, Will. But I’ve prayed all my life for a home of my own—and for this.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m so sorry I go on so long. Couldn't my husband give me the gas?” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Her last husband had his ears bored for stealing honey. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“No. From Turkey. We come from Turkey. My husband and me, too.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

"Beauty returned to her husband full of grief, and noticed he wasn't sad. She discovered he'd troubled the skies over Orléans to lure her back, so she left him." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

How much courage must it have taken for Rachel to brave her husband’s anger, and the dark and the strange terror of a prison shed! The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

It was not okay to mistreat her husband. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked from her husband to Ron, who swore loudly. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“First,” she said, “you must find a husband. An American citizen is best.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted to talk to her husband away from the house. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And she felt for the first time a kinship with her husband. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Two weeks after her burial, Rose’s husband arrived loaded with ingots of gold for the children, two-dollar pieces for the women and snake oil for the men. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She paused and looked at her husband a moment before answering. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“My husband and children will be happy to see you. We shall be glad to welcome you in our house.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she is carried from the room, she steals one last glimpse of her husband. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

She had as little respect for her husband’s work as Macon had for college graduates. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tells Mam at last that she can have the public assistance but if she gets a single penny from her husband she’s to drop all claims and give the money back to the Dispensary. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She kept a photograph of her dead husband on the windowsill, beside the braided horsehair basket that was a gift from her son. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She and her husband, Donald, were schoolteachers in a tiny village called Harewood, in the central Jamaican parish of Saint Catherine’s. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

She then looked at her husband, whose head shook in disbelief. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

You and your husband are the dogs, dangerous dogs, frothing- at-the-mouth, rabid dogs. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

At work the following week, Laxmi told Miranda that it wasn’t the first time her cousin’s husband had had an affair. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

My husband loved me and I loved him, that’s all I needed. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe they got away—I don’t know. I stayed to find my husband and bury my baby.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

In fact, she, too, had thought about asking her husband to stay home from work to help with the girls but decided otherwise. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It’s just too bad that it went on for seven years because my aunt Rebecca went through the same kind of husbands. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Over time her silences annoy her husband, then puzzle him and finally depress him. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

One would have thought from his words we had purposely starved him, when in fact of what there was he always got the biggest share after my husband. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“After we leave the city, I am going to the Vast Wall to find my husband,” Lady Meng said. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

My mom said good-bye to her husband of eight years and the love of her young life, neither of them wanting to acknowledge it could be months or years before they'd be reunited in America. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Harry looked over at Hermione and the question he had been about to ask—about whether Mrs. Cattermole’s lack of a wand would prevent her Apparating alongside her husband—died in his throat. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

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

She and her husband owned a flour mill and promised that Jadzia would never go hungry. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“No,” my father said, “I myself will go,” but the women held him back until the foot soldiers passed by, my husband and my brother leaving with them. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

On one, Speed had piled hundreds of editions of the Baltimore Sun dating back to the 1970s, when her husband died. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Mamá’s rain song came back into my head, and, without knowing why, I started to hum it as I pulled the map Teresita’s husband had given us from inside my pocket. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Though legally bound by her husband’s wishes under German law, Maria did not want to return to him or to Nuremberg. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In Jane Austen novels, a death often precipitates the loss of a fortune, which propels the heroine to seek a husband. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

By then she was an obese woman with a very pretty face, and she ruled her whole roost with an iron fist, including Uncle Isaac, her husband. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

None of those scenarios involve a boyfriend or a husband. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I have a husband who no longer carries the weight of the nation on his shoulders. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In addition to the misery of serving the gods’ “purpose,” it was her fate to watch her husband love the goddess of despair. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Anticipation began to plague her with such ferocity that the thought of a husband, on which all her hopes were pinned, threatened at times to send her into another attack. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Energy and alertness may save the life of your son, your husband, or your brother. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

She read the letter and then called her husband. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was she going to find a new husband who didn’t fight so much? Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“One husband was enough for me,” she’d say with a laugh. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

"Saris. My husband used to love seeing me wear them. Now come quickly and eat what I've made for dinner tonight. You must be hungry." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then in a spectacular leap that no one thought her capable of, Ester knocks her husband to the ground, pulls at his hair, and bites his cheek. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In India, she thinks to herself, women go home to their parents to give birth, away from husbands and in-laws and household cares, retreating briefly to childhood when the baby arrives. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her little black husband crouched like a cat by her right shoulder, and for many hours he seemed as still as she. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Or, as the woman who ran the local Hindu temple’s summer day camp liked to remind Aru: Don’t go outside without sunscreen or you’ll get darker and won’t find a husband! Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And between, how many times, I thought, bleak of spirit, while her husband in his impotence and I in my innocence did nothing. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rumor had it that the peanut butter maker’s husband—a stodgy, surly type—shut down the factory after his wife’s death, purely out of spite. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The aunt didn't notice her husband's silence, for she was thinking the same thing. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“They don’t build houses like they used to,” she heard her husband say behind her. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most Pashtun women would cry and beg and cling to their husbands’ sleeves. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

My husband Tommy is in fine form working away and Delia’s husband Jimmy is in fine form working away and we hope this finds you in fine form. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Her husband was furious when he saw her draping the veil over her sunbonnet. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She was taller than her husband now, and there was no doubting her vigor. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Levy stood staring at her husband, her colored lashes motionless. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She holds the line until she is tempted to hang up, wondering all the while if her husband is trying to reach her from home, regretting not having call waiting. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I have no need. My parents are looking for a husband for me.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dad would give me a corner of the farm, and my husband would put a house on it. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

G.G.'s husband died of a heart attack on his sixty-sixth birthday and she started to lose track of things after that. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I went alone to summon my daughter’s husband. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was doting and invested, my husband, doing what he could do. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I saw my husband’s eyes kindle, I saw in them, fearfully, the light of hope. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

After one particularly trying day, Mrs. Trepid snared her husband. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

She is making more than her police detective husband and has found herself tiptoeing around his ego and expectations. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Her husband had bought her a nice pantsuit to wear when they called on customers, and for her birthday Doug had given her one of his medals to wear around her neck. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another woman trips, breaking her heel, and is consoled by her husband. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Your money all goes into a trust account,” said her mother’s husband. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Finally, Isabelle Derby got up from the table and walked over to her husband. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A young husband would be after me all the time. It would be too much of a strain.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

While they had their coffee, and on the ride uptown, they talked, principally about Florence, how badly people treated her, and how empty her life was now that her husband was dead. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

So the husband of the lady downstairs looked at the pipe, realized it shouldn’t be there and what it meant, and called the Gestapo. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

"Do you understand? I have to think of myself. In a few years, you'll be on your own, but Richie is my husband." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Though all the other members of the family observed her husband’s boycott of this beverage, she drank two cups every morning and often as not ate nothing else the rest of the day. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The music stopped and both mother and daughter turned around to look at the old man as he yelled, “Inés, my daughter! Listen to me, m’ija. Gabriel is home! Inés! Your husband is home!” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

On it was written a love note to her husband, an unhappy, haunted man. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She's so caught up in Little Women, Sunny doesn't notice that I've stopped fanning or that Television Erica is throwing herself into Television Tara's husband's arms. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But what else could she do considering the husband she had, they said. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nor did she ever take another husband, a circumstance I did not question. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Curzon listened carefully as I told how Madam and her husband bought us. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and her husband had been over to the house and had informed his parents. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Did your husband seem disappointed, Mrs. Miyamoto, that he had not succeeded in purchasing his seven acres? Did he seem to you disappointed?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

"Save us!" the mother screamed, almost throttling her husband. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to embroider hearts into my husband’s clothes when I mend them. Because I’ll love him so much!” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

"Not really. I can replace my husband's buttons on his shirts, though." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I could feel one young mother’s disappointment at the reappearance of her husband’s weak chin on the face of her newborn daughter, and a new father’s terror as he calculated the tuition for triplets. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

"My husband proposed to me by that oak." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Outside the walls, however, they were still fathers, sons, brothers, and husbands—mainly of poor people from New York City. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Terryl recalls the woman imploring: “I’m a religious woman, and my husband, he’s an important man.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Nina put a hand on her husband’s shoulder. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Richardson, due to her husband’s involvement in the case, could not write the Sun Press’s story on the decision, so Sam Levi had been assigned the story instead. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The kids who wanted to be kids instead of washing dishes and ironing their papa’s shirts, and the husband who wanted a wife again. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fixed clock with a promise of lifetime repair brought us some dishes from an old woman who had a wedding set from her first marriage that her second husband didn’t like. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“After my husband passed, I made a whole quilt out of his clothes. Even made a square using a pair of his boxers. I washed them, of course.”Holly winked, but her face turned serious. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

And especially did the woman complain, for she missed the delicacies she had eaten in the inner courts and she complained to her husband and the three of them complained to Wang Lung. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Wherefore, husband, I counsel you that we depart from hence suddenly, that we may ride all night to our own castle.’ The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Earlene was married before, but her husband drove a cab and got kilt in a holdup. “ Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She moved to Philadelphia and cooked for us, saving her wages to set her husband free. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As my husband, the late Eugene Larkin, was the county appraiser, I have access to his maps relating to public and private land use in this county. The land just purchased by Mr. Burton...” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Without a word, Sissy’s tall husband got up, gave over the baby and its bottle to Francie, and still without a word, walked out of the room. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Oh, of course not, beautiful, she only told two of us girls. She couldn't afford to let her husband hear of it. He . . . well, it's too long a story." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fulvia, already ill, died a short time later without seeing her husband again. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

The two women agreed that if the war lasted a long time and their husbands did not return, they would help each other through whatever followed. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

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

Auntie Eliza’s husband worked out in the fields, and no one talked bad about the field workers when she was around. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Surely their husbands could spare them for one overnight? How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He looked like a henpecked husband, a pushover, a sucker. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She bent her whole mind to delivering her sister and devising a fit punishment for her husband. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

It did not seem fair to keep a wife from her husband. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Derby, shrieking and twisting like a madwoman, fought to get free of her husband’s grip. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Melissa, who has the advantage of a working husband, says, “Well, it’s a job.” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have seen old donkeys better suited to be a husband.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She generously said I could stay with her and her husband after Christmas, as their son would be away at school for the semester. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Her husband might fall deeper into the abyss of this broken judicial system for lack of this piece of paper? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The two sons of Atreus, Agamemnon, the commander of the Greek forces at Troy, and Menelaus, the husband of Helen, ended their lives very differently. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1844, she gave birth to a second son, Henry Brewster Stanton Jr., and decided that she and her husband needed to settle the family in a home of their own. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Helen did as her husband asked, then sat in the stands on race day, terrified and praying. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The summer days passed while they talked about going to find Moon Orchid’s husband. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

All she wanted, for now, was proof that her country recognized her husband as a citizen. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I had met her and her husband before, but I had never been in their house. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t have fed you and washed you and nursed you if I’d known you were going to turn around and steal my husband.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Caroline looked longingly at the picture, the way war brides look at photographs of their dead husbands. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Her husband of more than ninety years was gleaned five years prior. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Forrest insists on having her meals in her cabin with her husband instead of eating from the communal cook pot with the rest of us. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Sir, I wanted to report that we just came from the marketplace and a woman falsely accused a merchant and her husband of being Communist sympathizers,” she said. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

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

The husbands are coming, the husbands are coming, the sisters joked. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

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

Stung by the criticism from her father and husband, Elizabeth Cady Stanton stopped accepting invitations to public events and once again focused her attention on her family. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Of course, her looks would do her good, if being helped to a rich husband was considered good. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Come!” she said, “come away from this awful place! Let us go to meet my husband who is, I know, coming towards us.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“If you don’t claim him now, you’ll never have a husband. Stop crying,” she ordered. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was difficult for the girl to pass the time without thinking constantly of the husband who awaited her. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

This time Mrs. Jongwe was joined by her husband and his parents. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Creüsa, leaving her husband in the town with one of the priests, went on up to the sanctuary by herself. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl who loves the quiet life her husband gives her. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I had saved the money my first husband’s family gave me when they sent me away. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her husband was away in the Marine Corps. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the homelands, the firstborn son almost becomes the father/husband by default because the dad is off working in the city. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She gathered them together, dated them as best she could, and in 1914, two years after her second husband died, she published a collection of Vincent’s letters to Theo, in Dutch. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She picked up Jaime and carried her to bed, then returned and folded herself around her husband. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And here she was now, over those boulders and parched hills, with a home of her own, a husband of her own, heading toward one final, cherished province: Motherhood. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He told me my husband would be in detention until formal charges were filed, which could take six months to a year. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The story does not say what Hera was about at the time, but it is clear that she was off guard and her husband free to do as he pleased. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she could not talk to her husband, and had never understood the reason for this. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Poor Fredrick! He is such a doting and perfect husband in every conceivable way, but now and then his temper becomes quite excitable.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“And where were you this afternoon.'1” Lourdes suddenly shouts at her husband, but she doesn’t wait for an answer. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I must ask for my husband, I thought, and found myself quaking. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Pomodoro does not see the raised hand of her husband. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

She had heard that his wife was very sick, might not live to see her husband elected. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Knightley, a sensible man about seven or eight-and-thirty, was not only a very old and intimate friend of the family, but particularly connected with it, as the elder brother of Isabella’s husband. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

“Let her have her cry out,” she told her husband. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Her husband saved up his horseshoeing money and bought her freedom right after they were married. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Men who wrote about the Great Fire generally portrayed women as passive and helpless, waiting for their husbands, brothers, or some other man to save them. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

She glanced across the small, stove-warmed room at a gaunt figure hunched in a rocking chair—Walter Hickock, her husband and the father of Richard Eugene. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, no. I don’t want to listen to this,” said Brave Orchid’s husband, and left to read in bed. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t speak of it to my husband or children, not ever. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

My husband Lou always said that I'm one of a kind, just like my name. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did not take to her bed as I expected but was driven round to the home of Missus Taylor to play cards and, no doubt, complain about her husband. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She married him after a short courtship but soon realized that her husband was obsessed with wealth and fame. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“You know how I feel for you in all this, there’s no need for me to tell you. Get your husband to bed early, if you can. It’s going to be a long day.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The preacher says, A great father, son, and husband has crossed over. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

When the neighbors brought her husband’s body home, it had been mutilated and burnt. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he says, ‘Well, I was there with my daughter and her husband and I seen you with a lady got sorta red hair.’ A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This boy talked back to my husband,” the wife says. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

In talking to Aunt Rose’s husband, Ophie was reminded that it wasn’t places that ghosts haunted, but people. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Madame Hoo marked an X and her husband filled in her name and position. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

In die hospital corridor, her husband moved ahead with the unsmiling determination of someone who knew what he was about. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Her husband and daughter support her dreams, particularly her husband, cosmonaut Mark Serov. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Telephone solicitors frequently ask to speak to our husbands or request that we put our mommies on the line. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Fernanda really believed that her husband was waiting for it to clear to return to his concubine. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I could imagine Diane and her rich husband strolling around up here, close to the clouds, but Rose and me were out of place. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The mother explained why she and her husband were committing their daughter to a private mental hospital. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

"The Times is not that bad!" she'd claim if her husband tried to humor her by saying they shared the same dirty habit. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

When she woke up, her husband had shot a girl young enough to be that daughter whose hair she had dressed to kill. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The biggest surprise has been the number of responses from officers’ spouses, many of whom say things like, “I didn’t really know what my husband did at work until I read your book.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

To complete this hollow gesture, Octavian arranged for the faithful Octavia to deliver this aid to her husband in what could be a joyous reunion. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

She and her husband, Marlon, were from Grenada and spoke in a lyrical accent as though just about to break into song. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Her husband had refused to come, but no matter. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the baby was born, Henry joined a law firm in Boston, and Elizabeth alternated between living there with her husband and in New York with her parents. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Dr. Tandlemann waited for a moment in case the husband wanted to respond to his wife. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Marilyn answered, spoke briefly with an undercover cohort of her husband’s, and called the agent into the den from the living room. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There isn’t much about her except that she was an artist too, but she is in a photo with Frida and her husband Diego Rivera. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

A constrained trio lingered after Rachel had climbed the stairs behind her husband. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“You can be. You will be. Go home now. Go home to your husband.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

These people are old...they are mine through my husband...I have a duty to them, but what of myself and my children? Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is married, and talks about her husband like he’s her favorite everything. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She learned the German from her husband, she said, same way she learned the Dutch. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, when the moon was full like a cantaloupe, he and Hamameh’s husband appeared. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Leibowitz wants to know where Mam’s cousins are, the big women with the quiet husbands. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Mrs. McCullom, who with her husband had managed to survive the fire by jumping out a window, sat before them, so slumped and broken that it hurt to look in her direction. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Sissy’s current husband worked for a pulp magazine house. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were not so close, but she followed her husband as he climbed over the rock, holding Safiya with one hand, over the jagged ridge and down again to the next stretch of beach. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

A young Hindu couple, the wife cradling a boy, the husband dragging a suitcase, passed between them. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

My seven sons fell in the southern land, another says, and my husband too, all eight in battle. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was such an unforeseen attitude that Amaranta Úrsula felt humiliated by the idea that she had given her husband the pretext that he had wanted in order to abandon her to her fate. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She herself is a veteran relo, having moved three times in the past ten years to help keep her husband’s career on track. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Until today. I mean I don’t know what was going on. I just know . . .” Thankfully she falls silent, because I’m not sure I can stand hearing her talk about my husband’s infidelity. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

For her husband, she knew, was a mystery to her, and had been ever since he’d returned from his days as a soldier nine years before. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

All that was left of Troy was a band of helpless captive women, whose husbands were dead, whose children had been taken from them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, usually the young lady has found a husband by that time.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“My pretty little head,” she said icily, “would just like to know where you are going. My pretty little head does not think that is too much to ask her husband.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Tim Boyle tells us the girls are having a bit of a time while their husbands are away overnight hunting deer, and one woman, Betty, says, Yeah. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

On May 31,1910, in the wheat and cattle country of Cardston, Alberta, Rose was midway through her labor with George when her husband interrupted the doctor. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t. I just ... I just wanted to see my husband . . .” “Your ex-husband,” Gaskill corrected me again. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

"We found this on the captain of your household guard, Sansa. It is a letter to my late husband's brother Stannis, inviting him to take the crown." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I did not plan ever to have a husband. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She felt so much alone that she sought the useless company of her husband, who had been forgotten under the chestnut tree. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She also argued that fathers and husbands—male heads of households—represented the best interests of women. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The husband, whom I’ll call Bill, had an endearingly playful manner. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“I still don’t see why we have to go through that every time you come home,” said Mrs. Weasley, still pink in the face as she helped her husband out of his cloak. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Since this letter was addressed to Mrs. Holton, it probably had some bad news ’bout her husband. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

My Aunt Libby's husband had made a joke once, about a nun that a nunnery sent to Teresa for a checkup. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The wind gathered such a force that it blew my husband past my bedroom and out the back door. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The father never gave his daughters money when their husbands were around. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Edna was not so consciously gratified at her husband’s leaving home as she had been over the departure of her father. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

That would be the last time Alma Ember ever saw her husband. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

"Your husband's infecting New York City with his plagues. I'm trying to stop him." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He gave the taxi driver French’s address with instructions to take her there, but to return her to the bus station if her husband couldn’t be found. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

"Such a pretty name. Do I keep it? My husband always said if we had a daughter, he wanted to name her after his mother." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She always calls her husband Mr. Washburn, as if no one will know whom she’s talking about if she calls him plain Henry. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Kali and her husband, Kunthi and her boys, Janaki, surrounded by her numerous family, even Old Granny, had come out to see. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her husband, with double pneumonia, was out of work for weeks. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps I could persuade my husband to issue the command. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had my husband’s eyes, large and wide apart. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slave children hadn’t interested her unless her husband had fathered them. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Her suspicious behavior suggests that she has murdered her own husband— Phoebe’s eyes blinked rapidly. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Marcy does make it clear that her relationship with her former husband is on his terms. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The scandal of her child was forgotten; there had been more recent disgraces—a woman who took up with her sister s husband, a fisherman who was caught stealing from his own brother. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

My husband, Andrius, says that evil will rule until good men or women choose to act. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Finally she came to the conclusion that her husband was at fault. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turned her hands towards Dr. Tandlemann and then towards her husband, whose face was pressed up to the window. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

That I should have more respect, and it was my husband’s duty to pay the bills, and if he couldn’t, I should leave and get alimony. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

"My husband forgot to introduce another new member to court this season. Our new favorite Belle of this generation, Camellia Beauregard." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

So he’s asked their sister Anna’s husband to break the news in person. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The water gave me a close-up of my husband’s wonderful face—and I was watching when it went white at the sudden approach of armored men on horseback, thudding and jangling. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He always called her "Ranee," but wives aren't supposed to call their husbands by proper names. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“A husband may kill a wife who disobeys him. Confucius said that.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are fortunate that she returned to us before the king my husband, else it might have gone badly for you. Very badly indeed” “Are you the wildling princess?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As Zeitoun was backing out, the client’s husband ran out to the truck. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“No fault of yours, or the girl’s or her husband’s,” I told her. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Myrta came to see that underneath her husband’s warm and charming exterior there flowed a deep current of ambition. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

We can be reasonably sure that Abigail was speaking for her husband as well as herself in this brief volley of letters. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The woman yelled and berated her husband as he bravely jumped from our boat into the other. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I saw your husband out here last night. And the cookies. And the rose clippings,” she said, talking faster as Aunt Rose’s indulgent smile melted into a disapproving frown. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

She could barely go on without her husband. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The top one is pastelitos. I learned how to make them from my husband, Beni. Since I ain’t Dominican and all, I had to learn how to cook that food to keep my man!” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Her husband, a burly man in baggy pants and sky blue turban, cradled an infant in one arm and thumbed prayer beads with his free hand. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Thanks to Octavia’s efforts, her husband and brother put aside any hard feelings. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

“I was terrified that my husband would be physically harmed or sent to prison for the rest of his life.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Quickly, his mother, whose demon brother had imprisoned her and her husband, ripped a piece of her sari and swaddled the baby in it. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

She returned to her room relieved to know that her nerves were not failing her but that something atrocious was going on in her husband’s secret den. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her days were spent doing housework, cooking, and caring for her family, but instead of her parents and siblings, she now looked after her husband and soon their children. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Georgia Black, in Staten Island, had turned her living room into a museum of her husband’s life. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Just as Dr. Darwin had predicted would happen, she was in agony over her husband’s lack of faith. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think I’m gonna write her husband a little anonymous letter to straighten out that girl.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What does my prospective husband think of this?” she asked the Green Grace. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Charlotte explained the mission to her husband, and they drove from Los Alamos to Santa Fe. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rose screaming that a salesman was at least a dignified occupation, but she would never have a barber for a husband. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her husband had been dead for forty years, her son for fifteen. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

My house is always full of five kids and neighbors and a husband. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I know from Janice that Sherrie’s husband is away most of the time, he’s in Tokyo right now working on bridge financing for an industrial complex in Bangladesh. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What makes it so difficult was the fact of your husband identifying that first body, over a year ago,” he said. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Knowing I was Blanca’s husband, one brother ushered me to the row where she was sitting. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The quote is from Virginia Woolf’s suicide note to her husband, but I think it fits the occasion. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I wonder if the girls really care about football, or if they just act this way to impress their husbands. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

At five o’clock her husband still hasn’t called. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Countess was considerably younger than her husband. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The first few times she called, Amy discussed gallery business but, little by little, began complaining about her husband, a Westinghouse executive named Van. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

In the distance she heard her husband playing his book steadily, his fingers never tired of the old songs. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d thrown her husband out three years after they married, for carousing. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My husband is often bad-tempered when he gets home, wrathful and grim of mind. He treats his guests badly,” the giantess warned them. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Her husband was an Arab, and there were Israeli paramilitaries on the ground in the city. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It was a good honeymoon, Grace always said, two weeks picking hops with her husbands family, and sleeping in a gypsy caravan parked in a farmyard. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He was Tom and James and a man named Switchman, another named Butterfield; he was the town mayor and the young girl Judith and the husband William and the wife Clarisse. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

They think we live together at Manderley as husband and wife, don’t they? Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Doha could see they were standing next to each other, his aunt’s hands wrapped tight around her husband’s arm. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“What do you mean, you’ll be away all day?” she asked her husband. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Because not only is Christmas coming, but my husband who is a cop will come up here and beat hell out of you if you don’t treat her right.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our husbands would be really different, of course, but they’d like each other a lot anyway. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Ladies better hold on to they husbands tonight,” she says. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

But then he remembered meeting his wife's cousin and her cousin's husband, Reinhold Barth. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

In the evening after dinner, we would join the line of people who had a husband or brothers or sons overseas. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Store-bought ice cream is cheap, but for Felicia, making ice cream from scratch is part of the ritual that began after her husband left in 1966. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, the drinking started before . . .” “So your husband’s affair was not the trigger?” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not just because of the argument, either; it’s just the way things are: when something bad happens to a woman, the police look at the husband or the boyfriend first. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow she is still able to smile and praise God even though her husband is gone. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Help me to appreciate the good husband you sent me and to take care of my two beautiful daughters. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She would not sit by the fire, nor would she clap respectfully when her husband returned from hunting. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dorothy, who grew up without grandparents, basked in the stability and warmth of the extended Vaughan family, but loving in-laws could provide only so much salve for a missing husband’s companionship. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“And if she had these lovely daughters, she was forced into marrying the King of England—the .man who had slain her husband!” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her husband, angry she was late, went into a rage upon seeing another man drop her off. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Her husband and two older sons had been deported with the first transport, by mistake. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just the week before, Eveillard said, a woman had arrived and requested a no-contact visit—she was going to tell her husband she wanted a divorce, and feared his reaction. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would be gone back to her husband by the time Shorty returned from work, and I’d bend his ear until daybreak. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Janis had kept an eye on him, of course — she seemed to take it for granted that husbands bore watching. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He breathes in the scent of her skin, still unable to fathom that they are husband and wife. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“That was very good for a start, Fezzik; tell him what a good start he made,” she said to her husband. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She slowed her pace, then at the thought of having to go back to Miss Susan and whatever form of punishment she and her husband would have devised, she started running again. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, my husband and myself worried ourselves nearly to death. Of course, once we emigrated that worry vanished, fortunately forever.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The introductions go by so fast, all I know is that one of them is Aiyi’s grandson, with his wife, and the other is her granddaughter, with her husband. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t fear for her husband’s safety, really, but she did have the feeling that life in the city would be very trying during and after the storm. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

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

"Does your husband know you're parading about in your bed clothes?" Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I held on to my husband each time, my eyes finding the calm in his. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Your husband had just died. I can understand that.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It leaves the usual suspects: the husband, the lover. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Better, if she’s roamed and found a husband somewhere else: none of our own will suit her, though many come to court her, and those the best.’ The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Desdemona was propped up, regally, against a beige corduroy cushion known as a husband. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Right, Jo. Better be happy old maids than unhappy wives, or unmaidenly girls, running about to find husbands,” said Mrs. March decidedly. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before the doctor could stop her, she grabbed a heavy metal bottle, slammed it with full force onto her husband’s head, and stormed out of the room. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

After putting the “luggage” inside, Minnie led the young mother to her husband. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Ha!” cried the husband, turning violently away, his jaw working. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

That girl grew up to be my grandma Ellie, who plotted to kill her husband and was exiled to England. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

"Gorgeous," Mrs. Wexler replied, clutching her husband's arm as her high heels wobbled in the deep plush pile. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

A wife does not go where her husband is not welcome. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The car was parked in the lot next to the hotel, and Maten had left a cooler inside, full of the foods her husband liked. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I came with my basket half-laden and saw my husband sitting on the floor staring out before him, a dazed expression on his face and his lips trembling loosely. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her thoughts were more of Robb, the infant at her breast, than of the husband she scarcely knew. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She laughs when she recalls her husband’s screams, the way he bolted out the door, his head a flaming torch. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

After obtaining a divorce, Ann dropped her husband’s last name and took the name of a man she dated for a time: Atwater. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Katherine Johnson had been asked to transfer to Houston with the group, but her husband, Jim, wanted them to stay close to their families. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Did you accompany your husband to America, Madame?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Maybe. My husband wasn't handsome, but he was a good man, Darnell. He loved my cooking more than you do." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The lawyer for Kelly's husband called Walter to the stand. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I know, very upsetting, that. But he’s her husband, isn’t he?” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

We were acting as husband and wife and having so much fun I didn’t care that we weren’t married. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was she trapped in the wrong terminal, worried that her new husband had abandoned her? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Darling, we’re going to have a baby again,” she would say to her husband. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

There is a better room, her husband says when we return to the office, but—and here he fixes me with a narrow-eyed stare—I’d better not “trash” it. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally she let him go and said to my father, “I’m so sorry. My husband is out of town, and when they arrested Curtis last night, I didn’t know what to do.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mei Ching could not have known, of course, that your mother and I, her new husband, had already returned to that same place in 1945 in hopes of finding both her family and her daughters. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Kino, my husband,” she cried, and his eyes stared past her. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rebeca later declared that when her husband went into the bedroom she was locked in the bathroom and did not hear anything. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Here is what I know about Miss Joe: She doesn’t have a husband, and she doesn’t have any children of her own. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Janaki or Kali would come to see how I was getting on, but not often, for they were kept busy looking after husband and children. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mother dressed them all alike in diminishing-sized, different color versions of what she wore, so that the husband sometimes joked, calling them the five girls. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

But the difference was that her mother had been madly in love with her husband from the first moment she saw him on their wedding day. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

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

The doctor was coming to visit, and her husband would be angry if she ran off. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The husband wiped his lips nervously with his napkin. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

If the president could make his way to Jackson Square for a press conference, her husband, if alive, could find a phone and call out. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She did not behave in a romantic way toward her husband, and yet she had used the word to describe him. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

She carried her husband Tom along on the wave of her excitement. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if Governor Blanco was right, that these were vets coming straight from Afghanistan and Iraq, it could not bode well for her husband. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He watched in amazement as the statue of the queen raised her arms and welcomed back her repentant husband and grownup daughter. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“And what will your husband say,” I said, “if I leave you here alone?” and I took no more notice of her cries. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kids did not see much of their father, and Lily Volpe did not see much of her husband. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Her husband was sliced in half and boxed backward. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stone, who had had reservations about getting married in the first place, now faced the public humiliation of dealing with an unfaithful husband. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Women did not leave their husbands, and they certainly did not run off with their husbands' nephews. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“You? My husband? I do not believe it!” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her husband had never sent an email in his life, but she couldn’t rule it out. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Ah! papa—that is what you never have been able to accomplish, and I do not think you ever will. Isabella cannot bear to stay behind her husband.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Bloomer’s husband owned the Seneca County Courier, and she wrote for that publication before launching the Lily. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

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

“And how' do you intend on getting all this? It’s hard finding a husband and a place. You don’t just add water.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Your Grace does not love the noble Hizdahr. This one thinks you would sooner have another for your husband.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Neither did Mrs. Ozobia, who followed her husband around, her manner regal, her beauty more intimidating close up. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry about me, Alice. My husband will help me get free.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

That night, after I’d gone to bed, I said as much to my husband. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other man was not, after all, much different from her husband. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her husband left her for a woman half her age a long time ago, and she’s been salty ever since. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Bacon was saying, “My husband has served on his school board for many years—” but Adam didn’t hear the discussion that followed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Murphy’s husband died a decade ago, I learn, leaving her with this big old house and little money. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Viola worked in electronics, and she and her husband, Frank, had bought a house in Queens. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Her husband says, “And each of the children contributes?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

In the late 1950s, a woman often went from her parents' home to a home with her husband. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

“It seems his sister’s husband was out riding with some town woman, and he was chasing them.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My husband died. I was brought here by my sass after she became a widow and was going to her brother’s house, where I was not wanted.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Here lies my husband dead, struck down justly by my hand,” she said. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her love for her husband, and her protective sense as chief guardian of his presidency, pushed her beyond any doubts. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Weeds have overcome her husband's herbs, but she still tends to the tomatoes—his favorite—that glow on the vine every summer. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“My husband wanted us to move to America but I refused, because the education system is so bad. An international agency rated it the lowest in the developed countries, you know.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Hold your tongue, woman,” shouted her husband unexpectedly. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I want a man with good hands, Anu told Ranee once when her grandmother asked what in the world she was looking for in a husband. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“They were an affectionate couple, and acted as any husband and wife might: They were in love and showed it in many small ways,” said Gardar. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

When I was eight, she got a letter saying her husband had been killed by a runaway horse. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She rubbed the charcoal between her palms and as she did so she described the sort of husband for whom she longed. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“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 left money with her as a gift for the children, and the husband drove me back to the highway. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tessie who had a husband more in love with hot dogs than her. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“In his home life I do not think there was ever a better man than my husband,” Myrta said. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Or husbands who spent all their earnings in toddy bars. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the boy ran around, she found her husband sitting in his favorite spot behind the sugar mill. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Therefore, every time that Úrsula became exercised over her husband's mad ideas, she would leap back over three hundred years of fate and curse the day that Sir Francis Drake had attacked Riohacha. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Pitipiti loved her husband and it made her sad to see his affection for her vanishing as he waited for the birth of children. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Isabella towered over her soft-spoken husband, Benjamin, a deeply religious man who had converted to the Jewish faith. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Pocahontas, her husband John Rolfe, and their son Thomas, were taken to England by Sir Thomas Dale to promote the James Town colony and help Dale get financial assistance. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

And then if they did marry, they could be left with a kid, two kids, the husband might just get fed up and take off, disappear, they’d have to go on welfare. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

In other words, she and her husband became one person—and that one was the husband. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

And she never chose her husband, and never even grew up to decide what kind of stuff she liked as an adult, or dated anybody with the same interests. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“For all the world,” as Mrs. Banks said to her husband later, “as though she were doing us a signal honour.” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

They would learn about what it means to be a good father and a good husband. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Of course you don’t,” Mrs. Levy said, turning her aquamarine-lidded eyes toward her husband, who was submerged somewhere among the pillows of a yellow nylon couch. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You want a husband, don’t you?” said Brave Orchid. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Adams’s partner in the dance was Abigail, whose political instincts rivaled Madison’s legendary skills and whose knowledge of her husband’s emotional makeup surpassed all competitors. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

And they found four Jews and shot them, right there in the yard, and then they shot the woman who was hiding them, her husband, and her two children. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Her husband had been killed the previous spring in a battle with some starlings. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Lord of easterly Rock, Warden of the West, Shield of Lannis- port, Hand of the King, husband, brother, father, father, father. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She sat in the front pew in a red dress suit, hands folded in her lap, listening to her husband preach about September 11. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“You got a husband and a child by trusting me, so I’d say trusting my judgment has worked out well for you every time before.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

‘Your husband”—he pointed to her—“is at La Victoria, I have your pass right here.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Immediately after leaving the car, Mrs. Ferris telegraphed her husband details of the success. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

As part of their unconventional wedding ceremony, Blackwell renounced his legal privileges as husband, and Stone announced that she would keep her own name. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I told that man, “That is my husband and I’ve come here to bury him and he is with me.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Big enough for mother to grumble about finding me a husband. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the bit about jealous husbands, I’m sure. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where had I put the map that Teresita’s husband had given us, warning us of places to avoid? Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

"What gods are those, Lady Catelyn? The trees your husband prayed to? How well’ did they serve him when my sister took his head off?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

As the bus shuddered to a stop at the terminal building, Ann searched through the blue haze of diesel exhaust for her husband among the knot of people meeting friends and relations. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Did police put their fists in women’s faces so the husbands’ spirits would break along with the women’s jaws? Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been close to her brother Lynn, so she took him to meet the man she hoped would be her husband. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Mama Oji was screaming, “Shame on you! Shame on you!” at her husband, and Pastor Ambrose was praying that God scatter Britain with holy-spirit dynamite, and a child was crying. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

That was the kind of relationship Stanton wanted to have with her husband, too. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

She knelt beside her husband and held the cup to his mouth. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Forgiveness comes only from the gods. What of Ser Lan- cel, who was your cousin and your lord husband’s squire? Did you take him into your bed to win his loyalty as well?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

After she had left the room, Mrs. Arable spoke in a low voice to her husband. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“I want a husband today and tomorrow, oh! My mates have all left me and gone to husbands’ houses.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Gradually then, because he could not share his inner self with her, he lost the power of being a husband to her and she was unfaithful to him. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I liked your husband well enough, my lady. He was a loyal friend to Robert, I know . . . but he would not listen and he would not bend. Here, I wish to show you something." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It annoys a certain lady that her spouse has such supreme faith in the British, and a certain husband attacks his wife because of her teasing and disparaging remarks about his beloved nation! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

"It made my husband and me sick as well," said Mrs. Ten-nyson, "but it nearly killed Becca, what with her being so young. Sam saved her life." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Among them Sister Betty scrambled up from where she had thrown her body over her children, who were shrieking; she ran crying hysterically, “My husband! They’re killing my husband!” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Monique is my mother, but Jordan is not my daddy. He's Monique's husband, and he says he’s Angel’s daddy, but he's no father of mine!” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your husband hangs the picture up on the wall of his study’ he finished, and this time the needles moved. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“And after thirty to forty minutes your husband returned. Is that also right, Mrs. Heine?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

One night Mrs. van D. thought she heard loud footsteps in the attic, and she was so afraid of burglars, she woke her husband. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Mary Lincoln chides her husband, standing in his office doorway. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“My husband works in a bakery,” she rattled on pleasantly, openly, as though she had known me for years. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, no matter how much Ranee objected, how many tears she cried, how she begged and invoked her husband's memory, the disaster came. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She was determined, though, that she would carry all this grass back to her husband, and so she staggered off down the path that led back towards her house. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

She had been paralyzed for almost two weeks now, waiting for word about her husband, but this was folly. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The larger she grew, the deeper Blanca sank into an Oriental placidity that dashed all her husband’s attempts to introduce her into society. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the husbands will get drunk, but never the member wives. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you help your poor old husband stay awake, honey?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Say your husband catches you in a lie. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

In the case of the Illinois senate in 1996, my reasoning went like this: I didn’t much appreciate politicians and therefore didn’t relish the idea of my husband becoming one. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In a tentative voice she said, “Isn’t that the .. . our ...” Her husband looked; I panicked. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard Rosaleen make a sound like Hmmmph, and I knew she was thinking about her own sorry husband, wishing he hadn’t shown up for their ceremony. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Teresita explained how to get to Hacienda Dorada, her husband drew up a sketchy map of the terrain for us on an old piece of linen, a shortcut, explaining it as he went along. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

When she says this, Maxine whispers to me, “Her husband is a doctor.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

"She believes she has good reason. When I was her guest in the Eyrie, she insisted that I'd murdered her husband, and wa? not inclined to listen to denials." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I’d been trumpeting it for more than a year and a half now, all over America: My husband was calm and prepared. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

A few seconds later, someone pries me loose from Ipphy, who is convinced I am her dead husband. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“You don’t know me? . . . You don’t recognize me. I’m your relative, Stein. Already forgotten? Stein. Stein from Antwerp. Reizel’s husband. Your wife was Reizel’s aunt. . . She often wrote to us . . . and such letters!” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Grant wants her husband back at the Willard Hotel immediately, so that they can catch the six o’clock train to Burlington, New Jersey. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

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

One woman who circulated the petition in Wisconsin had already lost her husband and all four of her sons in the Civil War. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

In the early twentieth century, husbands and doctors had the right to have their wives and patients held in psychiatric wards for indefinite periods, sometimes confined by straitjackets and leg irons. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

By now, the husbands who lived on other plantations had come for their Sunday-night visits. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

"Thought you might discover the corpses of my previous husbands?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Though her husbands work kept him on the road, Dorothy exchanged her traveling shoes for Farmville life and the routines of family, the stability of regular work, and community. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Her husband, Nelson Davis, was more than twenty years younger than she. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The best way of attracting a handsome husband was to find a special tree, part of which would have been burned. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“I mean, if it’s your husband’s, do what you want. But if it’s mine, get rid of it. Seriously, let’s not be stupid about this. I don’t want another kid.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The new son-in-law he even felt sorry for—he could see this husband would give out on his strong-willed second daughter. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He became a plain on which, like the cowboys and Indians in the movies, she and her husband fought. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eight weeks later, the Neptune set sail again, and the pretty young bride with the chestnut hair waved her husband goodbye from dockside. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

When her husband decided to give their first son the name of his great-grandfather, she did not dare oppose him because she had been there only a year. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I had known that Raji would make a fine husband for some lucky girl, but I could hardly believe that he had chosen me or that his family would accept me. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Rumor had it she was proud, arrogant, and ill, which only increased the general sympathy for the count, who gained a reputation as a patient, long-suffering husband. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your husband was offered his freedom and his farm back—” My heart leapt! “—if he proved his loyalty to El Jefe by divorcing his Mirabal wife.” In the Time of the Butterflies 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

One is of her, her husband, and her son. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She smiles at the photo of her husband on the wall behind them. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She arranged the details of her past the way she tidied up her house, and she had never told Ernest, her instinctively jealous second husband, about her Osage wedding with Roan. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Mary Lincoln has joined her husband at City Point, bringing with her a small group of guests from Washington. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

While Pascal and Patrice punched each other out of exhausted boredom and Martin leaned on me crying that his ears hurt, my husband was brought down without my notice. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can’t believe this is finally going to happen,” Hilly says, because she’s been trying to set me up for months with her husband’s cousin. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He took an interest in our lives and would give time off if a woman was wanted at home for a child or a husband’s sickness. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

She looked at the person who was smiling shyly at her, who had lost husband, son, daughter. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

My mother took note of anyone who maligned any characteristic of her husband or anything associated with him. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said it wasn’t good for a big gal like me to be in her house, seeing as she had a husband. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the morning recess the accused man’s wife had come alone to the row of seats behind the defendant’s table and asked permission to speak with her husband. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“My husband is growing very fond of him.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“They killed my husband, burned my village to the ground. I have no home, no family, nothing is left.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Her mother would shake her head at her husband, then pull Polly close to her. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She soon divorced him, and whenever her husband’s name was mentioned, she recoiled in horror. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It was a different time; wives just didn’t up and leave husbands. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Doesn’t she let her husband take a drink?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I fell in love with my husband’s nephew! Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

In the few newspaper photographs in which she appeared, always with her husband, the captions read: Mr. and Mrs. Samuel W. Westing. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Her husband says I should marry, but she wants to keep me as her maid.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

But to get those samples after her death, someone would have to ask Henrietta’s husband for permission. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Then he assaulted toe first boughs manfully, while the gentlewoman ran about underneath, talking about hawks and husbands and toe nice weather they were having. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

What patience indeed my husband must have had; to put up with me uncomplainingly during those early days of our married lives! Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was at Berea that Justice met the man who became her husband, Troy Price, the son of a tobacco farmer with a sixth-grade education. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Pauline went to bed those nights begging her husband not to gnaw with his beak at the living. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today, she doesn’t open the door, it’s him, the husband. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Listening to their plans, Ashima had felt a moment’s panic, a protective instinct, wanting to retract her offer, wanting the house to remain as it’s always been, as her husband had last seen it. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It occurred to me, with the force of a revelation, that since Hamlet was now my husband, Gertrude was already my mother. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Over this she hung a little kettle full of water and just as it began to boil her husband came in with a fine cabbage he had got from the garden. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh dear!” said Mrs. Popper, when she opened the door to her husband. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Almost a year ago, a family lost a father, a husband, and a tremendous writer,” Mrs. Priest says. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

After they had been away ten years, the daughter implored her husband to return to her hometown. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

In any case, he ignored her—and so did her husband and everyone else for that matter. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And how could she force herself to endure another meal at the same board with Goodwife Cruff and her cowed shadow of a husband? The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“He had a child with a woman who was married to someone else, and then he killed the woman’s husband.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She had stopped using the leash, convinced of her husband's faithfulness, and for the first time since her return she seemed to have a moment of ease. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. Buellton and Brownley, really, but what kind of names are those for knuckleheads like them? Mom was going through some snobbish upper-class phase with husband number one.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

She has many troubles, but the big one is her husband who left and keeps leaving. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her husband just shook his head as if it was the strangest thing he'd ever heard. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I know what depression is because Gram said Gloria was depressed for a long time after her husband, Bill, died. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The handwriting throughout was shaky and hurried, but the style resembled her husband’s and the melancholy, self-pitying tone was familiar, although more dreary than usual. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

These papers, in fact—along with the others Mrs. Heine has described, the ones her husband and his ‘buyer’ held—were entered, as you may recall, as state’s evidence in this trial. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I bet it was clothes for her husband,” another interjected. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“My husband’s niece and nephew from Texas,” she told him. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

But she knew she would find her husband here tonight. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

There was her husband’s reproach looking at her from the external things around her which he had provided for her external existence. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

The night of the fire, the night they took me in, I could hear Mrs. Schatzman in her bedroom, fretting with her husband about what to do with me. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Aunt Zo, who never missed a chance to lament her marriage, had said at dinner in her comedienne’s voice, “My husband. Always the bridesmaid and never the bride.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Before the storm, she and her husband, who was eighty, had checked into a hotel downtown, knowing that there they would be among other residents and guests. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Then one day he told me that my husband would not recover until he stopped worrying. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, she followed the highly partisan exchanges in the Republican newspapers and provided her husband with regular reports on the machinations and accusations of the opposition. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Her body was beautiful, spare and big boned yet rounded and softHe desired suddenly that she should like him as her husband and then he was ashamed. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

In 1864, Mary Surratt, under a cloud of suspicion over her husband’s loyalty to the Union, had moved her family to her Washington, D.C., boardinghouse and rented the tavern to John Lloyd. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Although a widow would sometimes manage her late husband’s affairs, Matthäus’s sons from his previous marriage were grown men and quickly took charge of the family business. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

"I think it's----" Her husband said "SH!" and we all looked at the subject again whereupon Tom Buchanan yawned audibly and got to his feet. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“She is if her legal guardian agrees,” Count Olaf said, “and in addition to being her husband, I am her legal guardian.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

She would leave the hall on her husband’s arm: the Shaper would bow politely as she passed. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’d be nothing but a slave. Do you think your husband would let you run off on visits? Husband! How could anyone think of marrying you off? You don’t look over eleven.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama, who was used to Papa’s loud noises, said calmly, “What is it, husband?” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Let her noble husband make the speeches and laugh at the feeble Yunkish japes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Surely the women on these pages had husbands, some of them must. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“My husband is going to go over and sit up with them tonight.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deborah took an average of fourteen pills a day, which cost her about $150 each month after her husband’s insurance, plus Medicaid and Medicare. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

God bless you and your husband and all the guards, Mam says. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Graça Machel ushered us through a courtyard shaded by trees and into the house, where in a wide, sunlit room her husband sat in an armchair. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I was sure that few husbands behaved as strangely as Hamlet was behaving. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

As First Lady of Arkansas, Hillary had kept her job as a law partner while also helping with her husband’s efforts to improve health care and education. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She and her husband both came from Japan, and her long aristocratic face was always a ghastly white. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What you gone do if Miss Hilly and them ladies tell your husband you got a maid out here? Ain’t that gone blow your cover r “I’ve already worked that out. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Not unless he gave her husband a funeral that buried him in the sea.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Her husband rented out the house and also went away. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their husbands’ breath became intolerable, and when they weren’t too sick to move, they were waving their arms, gesturing to the men to keep away. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She tells Gogol that her husband delights in illusions like these, is consoled by them, whereas she finds them simply to be reminders of what is missing. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“A woman once asked me: ‘How do you get your husband to fix the plumbing?’ A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Patricia takes her face out of her hands and looks at her husband as if she’s seeing him for the first time. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Only two people can tell this woman what to do: her ma and her husband. Unless you’re her husband you can’t tell her a thing.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I was a better smuggler than a knight, he had written to his wife, a better knight than a King’s Hand, a better King’s Hand than a husband. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her hands were folded majestically in her lap—she’d set her husband’s letters on the coffee table—and she was perched with great dignity on the edge of her chair, blinking calmly at her daughter. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

But primarily she was on her way to be rid of Daniel, her terrifying husband. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My husband and sons are still in the house!” she cried. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“What’s that song?” snapped her husband at last, walking in to sit at the fire table. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

A good many of the neighbors’ husbands were no better than Johnny, of course, but that was no standard for Katie. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a Polynesian family with a husband bigger than the guy from Edgar Street. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

A constant stream of diners comes to their table to shake Werner’s and Frederick’s hands and ask Frederick’s mother in low sycophantic voices about her husband’s latest advancement. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

While everyone around us talked about the tragedy and asked themselves where he had been, the old man came back down the driveway to inspect the body of his daughter's estranged husband. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

When she told them that her husband was still in the city, there was always a three-stage response. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

After the ceremony, my mother's relatives hiked back to their village and left her with her new husband and his family in their village. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It was true in its way, even if her husband had released her from the promise she’d made eighteen years ago, when she was only a girl. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband,” says the Commander. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t have her in my bed as often anymore, now that her husband is around. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The husband steadies himself against the doorjamb before inviting the men to enter his home. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“I'm trying to reach my husband. He’s in there.” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I hushed them as best I could, throwing a reproachful glance at my husband for his careless words, but he was unnoticing, sunk in hatred and helplessness. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Janie went down and the landlady made her drink some coffee with her because she said her husband was dead and it was bad to be having your morning coffee by yourself. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

She glanced quickly at her lover, a covert glance, then gave a new, reserved attention to her husband. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

"They were your quarrels first, sister. It was you who sent me that cursed letter, you who wrote that the Lannisters had murdered yobr husband." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

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

“To hear the names he’s giving me! That Orlick! In my own house! Me, a married woman! With my husband standing by! Oh! Oh!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

It would be too upsetting for her to make this speech to her husband just before she gives birth. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

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

And being on this trip was supposed to make her happy, happy for the first time since her husband died last year. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

Later that night, after the amusement park closes, Felicia urges her husband toward the roller coaster. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of these friends also steered me toward a fertility doctor whom she and her husband had used. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“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

They seemed never before to have weighed much against the abundance of her husband’s kindness and a uniform devotion which had come to be tacit and self-understood. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Kathy saw that beach, she could only think of the hike, that insane hike her husband had insisted they take. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“I’m away working in the shop, see? These here men come to the house and say to Sissy, ‘Your husband’s just been killed, see?’ A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wonders if she is the only woman in her family ever to have betrayed her husband, to have been unfaithful. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Maddy looked at her husband with a twinkle in her eye. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

On one side a man jumped into the water, trying to drown himself; on the other, a woman was giving birth, as her husband shielded her with his coat. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

This assurance is important to her; along with the Sanskrit vows she’d repeated at her wedding, she’d privately vowed that she’d never grow fully dependent on her husband, as her mother has. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The teacher’s husband’s sisters waiting for their dowries. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sigyn took her bowl and went to her husband. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“I have a husband and he is here, I ask only for his portion.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several times Kenny came to see him bringing food and sometimes medicine; he told me bluntly that my husband was not getting enough to eat. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

About half of them were old people with walking-sticks, but there were also plenty of families with a husband, a wife and several children. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

I waved at Grace Robbins, stepping inside with her husband, Wayne, and her two children. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

My husband started to take many business trips to the north. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tells him about the house her husband rents in Brookline, a sprawling Victorian that costs less than half of their one-bedroom apartment in Murray Hill. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a kind face; a face that sons could love, husbands worship, and daughters envy. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cora was friendly with Gloria, who called Cora “the Adventuress,” owing to the many complications of her journey, but she hadn’t spoken to Gloria’s husband beyond greetings. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The most frequent presence is Mary Lincoln, who weeps and even falls to her knees by the bed when she is allowed a few moments with her husband. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Agha, did you hear what Mullah Nasrud- din did when his daughter came home and complained that her husband had beaten her?” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“What is it your husband does again when he gets the calls?” asked Miss Winthrop. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A woman’s life was over once her husband died. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Give me your confidence, Jane,” he said: “relieve your mind of any weight that oppresses it, by imparting it to me. What do you fear?—that I shall not prove a good husband?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

She lit a match and approached her husband, asleep on the couch. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You arrested my husband in his own house, and now you won’t give him his wallet back? What’s going on here? What is wrong with this city?” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“My dear lord,” she said, “you who are father and mother and brother unto me as well as husband, stay here with us. Do not make me a widow and your child an orphan.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ashoke suspects that Mrs. Jones, whose husband used to teach in the English department until his death, is about his own mother’s age. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

For as long as I could remember, this image had been at the core of my idea of paradise: my husband, and his wives. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I swear to you, M. Poirot, and my husband knows and will swear also—that, much as I may have been tempted to do so, I never lifted a hand against that man.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

My throat filled with so much hope that it finally burst and blew out my husband’s end of the candle. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re married a long time, you know. And women always hear everything, sooner or later. If you skip anything, some kind friend is sure to say, ‘Did your husband ever tell you about the time...’ Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Larkin had been working Jinx pretty hard, making him weed her garden and clean out closets of her husband’s old papers. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The nannies told my mother that I stole their shadows, that I made their hair fall out and drove their husbands to other women. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she went to fetch her husband she found him talking to a group of four young pilots from 367. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Woodhull’s first husband was not well; he was an alcoholic and a morphine addict. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Despite his bouts of drunkenness, the young husband is well-meaning. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She met Louisa, who didn’t have a husband either, in the lobby on that first day. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Oh Minny—” “Because you don’t even give me the courtesy a telling your husband I’m working here. Because you in this house twenty- four hours a day driving me insane.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

My husband, Jerome, and I and our two young daughters drove to the fairgrounds, and I introduced my children to Kiddieland, which like the rest of Birmingham, was technically no longer segregated. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mom didn’t want a husband; she wanted a baby. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Rose smiles at her husband triumphandy, and Matt follows her meekly outside. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Without consulting her husband, she arranged for her son to be shipped off to a military prep school—the first of several failed attempts to “normalize” the boy. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and her sisters have led such turbulent lives—so many husbands, homes, jobs, wrong turns among them. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“I’m moving. My husband’s lost his job. I can’t pay to get my car fixed.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Such as a job for her husband and a clean home. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dear husband, you almost startle me by your great cheerfulness.” Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Services, Incorporated, the auto-repair business she owns with her husband, Chris Fish, in the hope of making her first million at an early age. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, women who are involved in some relationship with men accused of drug crimes, typically husbands or boyfriends, are among the most frequent claimants in forfeiture proceedings. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I believe he will be a good husband to her. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

She and her children had depended on every penny her husband earned. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Did she plan to buy a boat and dodge the authorities and find her husband on her own? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry my husband isn’t back yet, Captain Searle,” I said; “he must have gone down to the cliffs again, and he went into Kerrith before that. I haven’t seen him all day.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Castleman wisely stepped into the back room, where her husband was twisting and kneading bread, leaving her son alone with his thoughts. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

How bad must it have been at her husband’s home to choose this as a better alternative? Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“This unhappy news—this was on the evening of September 7 that your husband told you about this?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Even though he is asking to be my husband, I don’t know him enough to trust him completely. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I thought that if I told my cousin what her husband had done, she wouldn’t believe me either. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It was in honor of the two men on the board of the Welberg Foundation who had been instrumental in getting her husband the grant. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“My debut as hostess of Ashton Place? Our first Christmas as husband and wife?” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Like Dedd, I just didn’t have the nerves for revolution, but unlike her, I didn’t have the excuse of a bossy husband. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She summoned her husband from his workshop by pulling vigorously on a ship’s bell he had rigged up for this purpose, unpinned her hair, and led him by the wrist to their bedroom. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She finishes the last spoonful, grabs her briefcase, and laughing, kisses her children and husband on the nose one by one, then clicks out the door on her high heels. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was looking for a husband, and now I'm looking for a wife. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I saw your next-door neighbor, the lady whose husband died before we were born and who sometimes let us swim in her pool. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The three Dominicans, a husband and wife and their business partner, agreed because Bodega had twice helped them make their rent. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Those with husbands had folded themselves into starched coffins, their sides bursting with other people’s skinned dreams and bony regrets. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I love talking to my husband across a small table in a low-lit room. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Granny, an indomitable matriarch, had single-handedly raised all of her children after her husband had deserted her for another woman. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some head out, eager to attend to their husbands. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

One of the papers caught the principal’s eye and he turned to my mother and asked, “Is your husband a Shangaan, Mrs. Mathabane?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She first went to a Quaker family, but her husband found her. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The husband takes the number, but the wife is still not satisfied with the answer. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Now, somewhere at the other end of the earth, her husband lay buried. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

My older brother said, “We’re too poor to buy you a decent husband.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

She opened her mouth to speak, but a quick glance at her husband brought a frightened look to her eyes. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“While your own husband lives the shivering life of a coward in the forest of Ohafia so that the soldiers will not see him.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her husband left her for a younger woman—she was too good for him anyway. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

My husband got home, and he and Marcus got into a conversation about sports, because my husband had a Boston Celtics hat on, and I guess Marcus is a big fan. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

One night, however, her dear though unseen husband spoke gravely to her and warned her that danger in the shape of her two sisters was approaching. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Throughout the day, except for the strange companionship of the voices, she was alone, but in some inexplicable way she felt sure that with the coming of the night her husband would be with her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knows more about her new husband than he knows about her. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

She worried about her husband’s well-being, helped him with his work, and accompanied him when he asked her to. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My late husband used to be his best friend. He hasn’t stopped praying for you. I’ll tell him where you are, even if you don’t help us.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Of course, my husband and I appreciate all the help you’ve given us.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when she asked to spend more time with her daughter, her husband refused. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“One hundred rupees will not win such a husband, we have no more.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Out!” exclaimed her husband, with something like genuine consternation in his voice as he laid down the vinegar cruet and looked at her through his glasses. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jerome, her mother’s husband, would continue to oversee all the financial matters. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

They were women his age mostly, with husbands, children, grandchildren too. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I lost my husband in the schools. We were taken there together.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“It’s still true in the States. I mean, most women I know, their husband gets a job in Texas, say, well, Texas it’s going to be.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gave her husband a kiss on his puffy cheek. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“To summarize, Mrs. Heine. Your husband and the defendant walked and talked, and you stayed behind. Is that right?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I can’t drag a husband and sons into a life where their beauty will blossom and wither in darkness. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

At forty-eight she has come to experience the solitude that her husband and son and daughter already know, and which they claim not to mind. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Doha could see how pale his aunt was as she clung tightly to her husband. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I ran away when I heard my sass and sassur plotting to get rid of me so my husband could marry again and get another dowry.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

And DeeDee's husband was obviously living with some mistress or other and turning her sour as an old fusty cat. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I thought it might happen in the distant future, once I’m a grown woman with an important job and my own house and a husband and children. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carey told of a pregnant woman who went into labor even while “her husband and two children lay dead in the same room with her.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

That actually happened to Momma when her husband, Major McKeene, returned from the War between the States, which inevitably turned into a war against the dead. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

From my point of view, my husband was doing plenty already. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I will have the rice now or your husband shall hear that his wife is not as virtuous as he believes or she pretends.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The word on the street was that Cassie went to Big Joe and got the cash she needed to get her husband out of jail. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the remaining women were now having fights with men said to be their husbands. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

If the mention of her husband hurt her at all, she did not show it. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“I read American books because America is the future, Mummy. And remember that your husband was educated there.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Dylan wishes me good luck with my future husband as I race half a block down to the main entrance of the Times Square train station. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Deah, who had lost two husbands to the fighting, and whose face and mouth and heart were hard and cold as stone. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The very notion that Jefferson should feel himself the injured party with the moral leverage to forgive her husband was a preposterous presumption. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Her husband worked hard for what he achieved, she said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Sick, poor, and battered by her alcoholic husband, she decided she could not raise her kids any longer and turned them over to a Baptist children’s home. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Once each afternoon, for seventy-seven days, Hatsue Miyamoto had appeared at the Island County Jail for a three o’clock visit with her husband. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I do not appreciate interruptions when I am communicating with my husband,” she said. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I began to doubt that this was my husband. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Lillian had often shared the agony of other wives whose husbands had vanished from the protective embrace of radar. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her cry reached her husband upstairs, who did not believe what he heard. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pilate was afraid that she wouldn’t be able to hide her stomach from a husband forever. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My husband is a healer. He can have a look at you both,” Isaac said proudly, placing a hand on my shoulder. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Twisting, she said to her husband, “See, he realizes that but still he wouldn’t say anything.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

I have no husband, mother, brother, or father in the world. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Her sudden interest in him, an interest she did not express in either her husband or her children, was mildly intoxicating. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Little Wife felt so sorry for her, she reminded her husband that he owed it to Big Wife to get her out of China before it was too late. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

For soon Sylvia has taken me aside to complain about her husband. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A chubby lady, with a face as jolly as her husband's is dour, is giggling in the hall. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

One was that a woman couldn’t be employed in the same school district as her husband. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The woman, Mei Ching, and her husband, Mei Han, lived in a stone cave. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lillian, who had her strategies and moved from one to another with instinct her only guide, ignored her husband’s grievance. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her husband bought her an upright walnut piano and set it by an arched window with a view of the sea. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If she’d a-wanted a husband look to me like she could a just picked one out right here. You don’t mean to tell me she done travelled all the way North just for that?” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Woman after woman, when asked to name her husband, named several sequential husbands who had died violent deaths. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

"Your lord husband awaits you within the town." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He asked Blanca if I, standing behind her, was her husband. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Clara Wingtip had sat in front of her cabin for thirty-six straight days, waiting for her husband to return from the Civil War. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

I met Ella’s second husband, Frank, who was now a soldier; and her brother Earl, the singer who called himself Jimmy Caiieton; and Mary, who was very different from her older sister. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I daresay that is a question, Mistress Owens,” said her husband. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

She feels both impatience and indifference for all the days she still must live, for something tells her she will not go quickly as her husband did. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“My youngest and her husband,” she tells me. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Thank you. But I think wartime is a little too unsure for husbands. Or boyfriends. I’m going to wait until everything is settled.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She thought she must be dreaming when she saw that her husband had changed out of his wedding suit into black silk pajamas and a velvet Pompeian bathrobe. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly Holmes began acting like a dutiful husband. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“You know how old-fashioned my father-in-law is, Pernilla. He prohibits French, no matter how much I implore him. You are so fortunate to have an understanding husband. Do your sons study French as well?” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wives uncoddled their husbands; there seemed no further need to reinforce their vanity. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The same week my mother told me about the rice bowl and my future husband, I saw a shocking film at Sunday school. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Murmuring strophes, she climbed on top of her stand-in husband. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Once long ago she had explained to me that she had disgraced her family when she had run away from her husband and they would never want to see her again. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

That landlady used to think her husband was going to come back one day too, but she died less than two months after him. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“This w as the middle of the day, during the week, wasn’t it? Why did you think your husband would be at home? Had you called to find out?” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I enter the beauty salon wearing really big sunglasses, like one of those women on TV who's just been given a black eye by her husband. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She sits down at the table, her back to her husband, her daughter squirming on her lap. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She swept past her husband and with elaborate gestures that seemed natural on her, she grasped Mrs. Grantham’s hand and introduced herself. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps she has a husband somewhere and has gone to meet him,” suggested Mr. Little. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

The husband was constantly worried about money and kept reminding me not to use too much electricity. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Lot a folks think if you talk back to you husband, you crossed the line. And that justifies punishment. You believe in that line?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Besides. Listen to me, career girl. If you ever get married again, don’t tell your husband anything. Do you hear me?” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Words Ashima has neither heard nor expects to hear from her own husband; this is not how they are. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But it tired everybody out waiting to see what else Violet would do besides try to kill a dead girl and keep her husband in tidy handkerchiefs. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can my husband come into the holding room with me?” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

On five different occasions, she and her husband, Jim, the former principal of Ector High School before it closed, had taken students to Europe to let them see other cultures, other lands. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went home and prayed to the Lord not to take my husband. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Isn’t that what you women from Ole Miss major in? Professional husband hunting?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

With her eyes she looked in the direction that her husband looked. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her bouncing eves looked coldly at her husband. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The husband was a small, timid man, sick with pneumonia caused by an unidentified microbe, and with only limited command of the English language. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

For the wife and the girl and for the husband. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

She leaped down to the blazing pyre and went with her husband to the world below. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her husband looks on from one side, his wife’s suitcase in his hand, smiling with his head lowered. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She put her husband’s breakfast into the food container that she had bought in Chinatown, one dish in each tier of the stack. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

If my grandma could have gone back to that summer when her husband's nephew moved into her house, would she have avoided falling in love with him? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Miss Phelan, I lived in Atlanta. For six years with my first husband.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

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

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

For my part, I merely watched young, deprived female bosoms panting before my handsome husband, soldier of the Lord. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ned would not speak of the mother, not so much as a word, but a castle has no secrets, and Catelyn heard her maids repeating tales they heard from the lips of her husband's soldiers. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A barrier of sawhorses had been erected, and the women whose husbands were inside stood in a special place behind them. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Her poor husband’s bones, that she didn’t have no money to bury. Pilate got a husband somewhere?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she saw her husband sitting over there in the corner with his long bony legs all crossed up smoking his pipe. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Barton is sitting next to a man I recognize from the photos on her desk as her husband. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Keeping Peace in The Family Octavia also managed to keep the peace between her brother and her husband as their arguments heated up and their disagreements escalated. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

She will miss the opportunity to drive, as she sometimes does on her way home from the library, to the university, past the engineering building where her husband once worked. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

My mother’s new husband had a son, Scott, from a previous marriage who was two years older than me. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“I do feel for you and your husband most acutely.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Elizebeth was proud of her husband’s brilliant mind, but she also yearned to be brilliant in her own right. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“My husband’s aunt says that you visit the prison at her direction, bringing tablescraps not good enough for pigs. She declared that forgiving and caring for the enemy is doing the Lord’s work.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were coming home from church, a big group, my mom and Andrew and Isaac, her new husband and his children and a whole bunch of his extended family, aunts and uncles, nieces and nephews. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“This is a very nice house you’ve got here. Too nice to belong to a lowly police officer. Your husband had money. So I’m sure there’s a car parked somewhere.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The women tell their husbands constantly: the knife! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

That all her husband had done was to write his name and hers on the to-and-from tag. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Undoubtedly, she had noticed that my appearances always coincided with her husband’s absences, but she never let on. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Why have you concealed the fact that you had a husband?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

This was to her husband whose hand had, as we could see, tightened upon hers. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

At any time her husband might have threatened to eat her. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“I want peace. I gave Hizdahr ninety days to end the killings. If he does, I will take him for a husband.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Well, the pickings must have been pretty lean,” said her husband thoughtfully. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Just rub it on your husband's head every night when he's sleeping, Mrs. Collingwood, and soon his hair will be as thick and as long as Mary Lou's tail." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

One morning he found Úrsula weeping under the chestnut tree at the knees of her dead husband. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She had given them a right to move on after the mourning and count Arize and her husband and parents as gone forever. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her mother, her husband, and her sister-in-law Wil are around the table, too. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I talked with her and the children as their husband and father, while reflected in the glass windows of the booth I saw another man they would not know. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I want to go where it’s cold,” Lourdes told her husband. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She and her husband Bud, they’ve been real good to me.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The next thing she recalled, she was standing over her husband. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bryan lacked the good looks of his brother Ernest, Mollie’s husband, and there was something cold about his appearance; he had uncomfortably steady eyes. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

A professor of rhetoric at Bowdoin College, sometimes professor of “Natural and Revealed Religion,” successor to the chair of the famed Professor Stowe, husband to Harriet Beecher. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Andrew, Margie’s husband, pointed out that Elizabeth was also deeply affected. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

When the Professor had done speaking my husband looked in my eyes, and I in his; there was no need for speaking between us. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

We are built differently, my husband and I, which is why one of us chose politics and the other did not. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The house regularly overflowed with guests, including Miele’s former wife and her husband. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Which means my husband couldn’t possibly have been the arsonist,” Mom said, “unless you’d care to demonstrate how a person with all ten fingers sealed in hard plaster would go about striking a match.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Are they hard to grow? My husband is the gardener in our family.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why do you hate my husband?” she asked, almost with wonder. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dona Ines, it is said, was frequently seen staring out to sea, searching the horizon for her husband. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother refused to leave house, stopped all communication with husband and family. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Three times in my life,” her husband said, his voice low. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

With the secret and implacable labor of a small ant she predisposed the women of the village against the flightiness of their husbands, who were already preparing for the move. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She walked over and put her arm around her husband. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Evidently, the discussion didn’t go the way the man wanted because before he rode after the others, he punched the woman in the face exactly as her husband had been punched earlier. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Daisy was inordinately proud of the fact her husband was lighter than she was. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The women watched the bright blue door on the second-story porch, and they imagined unspeakable scenes between the Night Swan and their husbands or sons. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Fun fact: her husband already had a daughter from a previous marriage who would go on to marry my grandmother's brother. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Now he worked for my parents, as did Shawn and Luke and their wives, as well as Audrey and her husband, Benjamin. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And later on, as she watched her skinny little husband skulking around the bedroom in his purple-striped pyjamas with a pork-pie hat on his head, she thought how stupid he looked. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, you poor child. The Lord has blessed you with so many charms that you must believe that He loves you, and has a plan, and a fine husband, in store for you.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Bacon said, “My husband is a believer in education.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I somehow got off the floor and she chased me up to our room and I slammed the door on her and waited for my husband to get home. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder what comfort my husband will get from this bit of shared history. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if she'd never left her husband in the first place? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“He’s a sweet husband,” she said aloud, “but contentious.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But Laxmi was always on the phone with her cousin these days, who was still in bed, whose husband was still in London, and whose son still wasn’t going to school. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

You must do all you can to make these years happy ones for yourself and your husband. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Lady Seymour cut her eyes at her husband’s small portrait on the bedside table, then to the coin purse that weighed down my hand. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had a husband I deeply loved and two beautiful, healthy girls. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“They just don’t want any trouble with jealous husbands.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Esther’s mother stood in silence beside the deep hole, leaning on her husband, who held their grandchild in his arms. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

She had given up her own child, a baby son, when her husband had died and she had come to our house to be my nursemaid. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rachel I could only despise more if I knew for sure which way to direct my ire, presumably South Africa, where I guess she’s finally hit paydirt with her exceeding whiteness and mercenary husband. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The horse meant financial rescue, the ability to meet his responsibilities as father and husband, professional redemption, and the end of a long, public humiliation. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The client, seeing the quick and efficient work Zeitoun’s team was doing, asked him if they could paint her husband’s office and her daughter’s bedroom, too. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

But even without her husband’s smile, what she was holding inside of her seemed far more profound to me. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

For Bibi’s sake we argued in favor of finding a husband. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

She has a life now in Florida with her de facto husband, daughter, and sister. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She waited, standing a few yards away from her husband. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She examined each object, sighing audibly before affixing a price tag, and scolded her husband for trying to carry things too heavy for him. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Moon Orchid was driven back to her daughter’s house, but though she lived in Los Angeles, she never saw her husband again. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

No wonder they hardly seemed to love me half the time—I couldn’t step in front of my husband to shelter them from his scorching light. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wants to find out who that missionary was, the man who met her husband in prison and took her phone number—the messenger. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Relax and be lazy? Mamma thundered. Her glass bangles jangled in synchrony. “Do you think you’re going to find a husband by being lazy? When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Lucy Stone did not attend the meeting, and she objected to excluding men from the organization, arguing that her husband had worked as hard as anyone else for women’s suffrage in Kansas. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Me and my husband used to be involved in politics ’round here. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They held me, smiled at me, and called me “little husband.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Not a month after the marriage, the cops were called in after she and her husband got into a physical altercation. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Quite new; ‘brand’ new, in fact; a present from my husband. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

My future husband was becoming to me my whole world; and more than the world: almost my hope of heaven. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

She didn’t come up again until eight, this time with her husband. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Murray was appalled at a recent dinner party when a woman leaned over to her and said, “My husband paid $250,000 to join the golf club, and he doesn’t even play golf.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

But to Chinese ways of thinking, the guest bedroom is the best bedroom, where she and her husband sleep. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her husband was in the path of a Category 5 hurricane and they were talking about staying away from the windows. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Most of the bereaved that Citra had to notify were the same: husbands, wives, children, parents. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“I see him coming across the lawn. Thank you so much, Mrs. er, Abernathy,” I said, badly flustered and unable to remember the name of her present husband. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The chief knew that there would be no difficulty in getting a good husband for her, but he did not want to leave anything to chance. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“I stood in the front hall,” Elizebeth wrote, “and watched my husband being carried on a hospital cot out the door.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

"We've seen three people entering and leaving the place so far: the fat housekeeper, her husband, and the lady with the dyed-blonde hair." The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her husband emerges from the light and comes toward her, taller than the palms, walking on water in his white summer suit and Panama hat. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

First, that she would be given a husband, to take the place of her dead father. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“How about North Carolina? We’ll bury you where your first husband is.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Forever after, Helen was there, her eyes trained on every move of her husband’s horses. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The green light flashed around the room and she dropped like her husband. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He stayed out of trouble, was helpful and obedient at home, and spent evenings doing his homework with help from his cousin's husband. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“So in other words Mr. Miyamoto left your residence on the ninth having heard from your husband there was at least a possibility your husband would sell the seven acres to him.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

But Nancy stalked to the counter behind which Bill Koontz was standing, and, eyes narrowing, she hissed, “Listen, chota, you don’t talk to my husband like that—” “Okay!” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ishmael found himself sitting in the courtroom where Hatsue’s husband was on trial for murder. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Not even when Strauss came by to introduce his daughter and her husband did Oppie turn around, instead merely offering a hand over his shoulder in silent greeting. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Personally, I’ve had a few husbands that maybe weren’t the top of the line, but a criminal, I just can’t see. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lord Asriel was out a hunting, but they got word to him and he came riding back in time to find your mother’s husband at the foot of the great staircase. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

She’d lost her husband years ago, then her daughter, and now she was about to send away her only grandson. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Why should you not be happy with your husband and home?” he said. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“But what for? You never carried a gun in the car . . .” “Well, you never can tell,” her husband said in that special threatening tone of voice he used to indicate a discussion was over. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wish I had had a bracelet like that to give to my husband,” she said sadly. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I wondered how her more realistic husband had explained it. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She loved the news because her husband had a low, clear voice, and she said that if he were hakujin—white—he could work as a newsman on TV He wasn’t home now. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Anderson is a widow, and even though her husband died in the War between the States—fighting for the Confederacy, no doubt—she still wears her widows weeds. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“You know why you are here. The Green Grace seems to feel that if I take you for my husband, all my woes will vanish.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The teacher’s husband still waiting for his Saudi visa. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, say Wendy’s husband and the other Central Americans, the man with the cobra tattoo on his arm orders Wendy to remove her pants. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Ashima approves, aware that the name stands not only for her son’s life, but her husband’s. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Once there, she wept for Odysseus, her husband, till Athena cast sweet sleep upon her eyes. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And do you, Mariam jan, accept this man as your husband?” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“At different times, I hope,” replied her husband sourly. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now it was the husband who cried, “How can this be? How can this be?” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

And the policeman said, “If your husband turns up and causes any trouble, just give us a ring. Otherwise, you’re going to have to sort this out between yourselves.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She felt as if she had been watching, from above, the convergence of forces on her husband. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Though her husband had been a great friend of Mr. Ages and had visited him often, Mrs. Frisby herself had been there only once before, and that had been in summer. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Helen was up again, waiting for her husband. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Because he was related as a cross-cousin, and also because he had been the husband of her friend, she was familiar around him and not shy at all. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Charlotte had seen them from her husband’s room, crossing the road, and immediately running into the other, told the girls what an honour they might expect, adding: Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Maybe that is why she lost her home village and did not reach her husband for fifteen years. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the summer of 1855, Professor Calvin Stowe, Mrs. Stowe’s husband, wrote: The drama of Uncle Tom has been going on in the National Theatre of New York all summer with most unparalleled success. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Firecrackers exploded on the walkway outside our open window and someone said this was a good excuse for me to jump into my husband’s arms. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even her husband, when he came down the Saturday following Robert’s departure, expressed regret that he had gone. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

I pushed the first tape into the VCR and sat beside him, searching his warped face, listening to his soft whimpers, while on the screen Alice Kramden outfoxed her husband again and again. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She might be exchanged, perhaps, shipped back to the Iron Islands to her husband’s loving arms. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I saw her dull face, but I thought she was just fasting. You know she’s always fasting. She will fast and fast until God gives her a husband.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

You-mei’s husband had a job in another city and was allowed to visit Shanghai only twice a year. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was a New York City school teacher for forty years, and after she retired, decided to travel the world with her husband. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She put on some worn denim overalls that her husband had brought along with other automotive items and set about on a new restoration of the house. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Marcy took pride in her ability to hold up her end of the conversation at social gatherings with her husband’s college friends and, later, with his faculty colleagues. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Tyro’s husband Cretheus discovered, years later, what her relations with Poseidon had been. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said she became obsessed with finding another husband, and that it was awful and painful to watch. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

My husband, the late county appraiser, would be rolling over in his grave at this exercise in depravity. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Once kindled, rebellion can spread like wildfire. Do you want your husband’s initials used?” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

My younger brother, Ram, whom I always beat at card games, said, “When you play cards with your husband, you’ll have to lose every time.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The music of Rabindranath Tagore is playing softly in the background—the same love songs Ranee used to sing to her husband when they were first married. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

At the mention of her husband Lady Constance’s left eye began to twitch. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Joseph tried hard to piece all the generations together, and he drew arrows between people he thought were connected, husbands to wives, parents to children, grandparents to grandchildren. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

And when the party entered the assembly room it consisted of only five altogether; Mr. Bingley, his two sisters, the husband of the eldest, and another young man. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Here is a truly noble husband, she thought. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Yet except for one of them, Hypermnestra, they did only what the Argonauts found the women of Lemnos had done: they killed their husbands. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They are marking us. Branding us like the cattle in those American pictures Yanek likes so much! Next they’ll be taking all our money. Mina, tell your husband.” Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

One of the dancers had given the American lady her rose, and Mrs. Fanning now tried to stick it in her husband's lapel. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

That was when my mama realized the dead woman was stealing her husband’s breath, using it to make her stronger.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

She had arrived in Macondo in the middle of the war with a chance husband who lived off raffles, and when the man died she kept up the business. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

All those who had stood closest to her husband had gone with her when she fled: Jon's maester, his steward, the captain of his guard, his knights and retainers. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“No children,” she said, “but I left my first husband behind.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Minerva is only a little bit older than me but already she has two kids and a husband who left. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Many husbands will return home to find that the helpless little wives they left behind have become grown, independent women,” wrote columnist Evelyn Mansfield Swann in the Norfolk Journal and Guide. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

My arrival marked the end of her baby-guessing and the start of her husband’s long decline. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Jacalyn's husband is a scoundrel who left them to run off to the Fire Isles. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Soon after that Nanny got married and went off to her own house with her husband. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

He even sends her and her husband a passage from Lamours “Autumnal Aspirations” about a beautiful woman never forgotten. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Nothing eating me except five kids and a husband. Y’all driving me up a wall.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She had climbed to the summit of Everest with Hall in 1993, and she entertained no illusions about the gravity of her husband’s predicament. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as the mistress of the house passed, her husband took ill. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

They had almost passed when Olanna jerked up and shouted, “Please look out for my husband in a blue Opel.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The woman was upset to have lost her fine husband, but she understood that it would have been impossible for her to continue to live with a lion. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I pointed to Dennis’s room and said, “My husband is in there,” and they just got so cold and disgusted. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you were a normal husband, you would help with the children.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

"My husband has to go to work every day. I can sleep until noon, if I want. I'm going to protest for my rights?" How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I could not make sense of this Janus-faced husband who spoke false and true at once. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Who needs a husband when I have more handsome gentlemen around than you can shake a stick at? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dear Mrs. Carroll, My name is Richard Perry, and I had the good fortune to serve under your husband. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell me, is there no one else apart from your husband?” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had never had any children, and each of her three husbands had slunk off in turn during the night, never to be seen again. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I wanted at least to learn more about them and file them in an “if you need a husband when you’re a grown-up” file. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You'll have no trouble finding a husband. Take care of that lovely skin, keep it out of the sun." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She and her husband bought a town house, took trips, ate in restaurants almost every night, and spent many Sunday afternoons at real estate open houses in Lexington’s elegant older neighborhoods. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Why did she push her husband to come here? You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

If my poor husband was alive and I told him what you did he’d say you struck a blow, Frank McCourt, struck a blow. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“My husband ran to make sure, but I think that’s them gathered down the road there,” Mrs. Hawkins replied, pointing to a huddled cluster in the distance. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It can’t be easy for a loving wife to know she’ll never be first in her husband’s affections, and Mother did know that. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She had refused, on that first night, to let her husband touch her—Hisao was unclean, his hands were rough, he had no money but a few coins. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She and her husband followed Lassie to the road that ran by the cottage. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The husband worked as a garage mechanic about four miles away and made good pay. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

They heard the giantess tell her husband that they had guests, her son and a friend, and that he had to be on his best behavior as a gracious host and not kill them. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“As far as I’m concerned,” Lina was continuing downstairs, “when it comes to husbands, the older the better.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Yet you can’t say boo to your own children without a husband first. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Some men did in those days. So the two new wives went to live with their new husband and his children, Light Hair and his older sister. That was in what is now eastern Wyoming.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

It comes to me that I might, as the nuns do, put Christ in the place of a husband, and thus exit this labyrinth of worldly love. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The mother sponge-bathed the children while the husband and I shaved. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The day after the death of Aureliano Segundo, one of the friends who had brought the wreath with the irreverent inscription offered to pay Fernanda some money that he had owed her husband. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The hurricane had not hit the city yet, and already she had no way to reach her husband. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I decided I would not be ruled by anyone, neither a husband nor a father nor reason itself. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The woman’s husband was my father, but I had never met him. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

It was no longer Lefty’s face, no longer that of her brother or her husband. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“They will be back,” said Nathan, my husband, “or others will take their place. And did you not benefit from their stay, selling your pumpkins and plantains for better prices than you did before?” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said as much to the policemen, to the firemen, to her children and her abashed husband. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

If she tried to chase away the new wife, then her husband would be angry with her and might send her away altogether. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

His wife answered and told him that her husband was still at the freightyard and he could catch him there if he hurried. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly that summer she decided that my mother was the woman who had stolen her husband. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many a time my husband stood aside unable to face the fray: if I had not reproached him his distaste of the whole procedure would have led him to starvation. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Dawes stood where her husband had left her, all laughter wiped from her face. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Helen saw her husband ride the arc of the filly’s back down into the mud and disappear under her tumbling body and the bodies of the three horses who struck her from behind. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It all depends on how pregnant the woman is and whether or not she is with her boyfriend or husband and whether or not he is sitting down. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“But when she finally got to the wall, she was told her husband had died,” the woman continued, ignoring the interruption. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

And my husband had abandoned me to uncertainty and grief. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

"I bet that old husband of hers turns out all the lights before he gets near her or he'd puke otherwise." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He opened it at six in the morning, with a newly hired staff of two, Eleni Pa- panikolas, in a waitress uniform purchased at her own expense, and her husband, Jimmy, as short-order cook. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

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

My mother had now lost a daughter and a husband all in the space of a few weeks. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every year for two months Aureliano Segundo played his role of an exemplary husband and he organized parties with ice cream and cookies which the gay and lively schoolgirl enhanced with the clavichord. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

In the best histrionic village style, Sourmelina unleashed soaring arias in which she lamented the death of her husband and castigated him for dying. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“She said she met a Latvian woman whose husband is in a prison near Tomsk,” said Mother. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“It was my husband who first identified the fossilized stegosaur droppings for the university.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

She assured me she had nothing whatsoever against minorities; she and her husband, who owned a chain of office-supply stores, personally knew many fine people who were Oriental, Spanish, and even black. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

There, at her console, he dialed 594: pleased acknowledgment of husband’s superior wisdom in all matters. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

No, no husband at all And they took the baby from her—just stole it away, and she never saw it since! Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Or at your husband? Did I hear you say he aimed dirty looks at your husband? Or is it just something your mother-in- law reported as having occurred?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

If she did this, there would be no difficulty in finding the best possible husband. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

They laid my husband on the paved floor and I sank down beside him. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

She got out, looked across the street, and saw her husband staring at her from a green car. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

In the final tally, her husband lost to the tandem of Jefferson and Burr, 73 to 65. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Her husband moves his mouth carefully but she cannot read his immense lips. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was husbands—who had left home in time to stop by this St. Nicholas Avenue house before they went on to work. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this happened only rarely; typically, husband and wife ignored each other. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had left her other husbands, casually and with no regrets. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her husband was a true lover of the fruit, but Etta couldn’t feel anything for it. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The only glitch had been when the ring vibrated, giving off a little alarm, refusing immunity to his grandmother’s new husband because he was a bot after all. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Mom and Auntie Gemma had him for social studies and homeroom in high school, and Lola often invites him and his husband to our parties. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Mamita, furious at hearing her husband canonized at her expense, took her revenge. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

"And my father and my brother and my lord husband and my sons are asking with my voice." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Her grown children had left home, and her husband was inattentive, and she was depressed. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“It is, isn’t it? He’s been trouble already, hasn’t he? You can’t fool me. I was married for thirty-two years, raised two sons, and expect to soon have a husband again.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I meant to become her governess once more, but I soon found this impracticable; my time and cares were now required by another—my husband needed them all. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Alyssa Arryn had seen her husband, her brothers, and all her children slain, and yet in life she had never shed a tear. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

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

You see, Islam is the only religion that gives both husband and wife a true understanding of what love is. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got a houseful of kids and a husband who soaks up booze like a sponge,” Mom said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Phelps explained that she had run away from an abusive and unfaithful husband, who was a prominent member of the Massachusetts state legislature. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“They were looking for their husbands, sons, and grandsons. They wanted to know that their loved ones were safe. Many of them were angry at the Long Knives. So that’s when it started.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

A whole coconut apiece too, in which my husband nicked a hole with his scythe for me so that I might drink the dear milk. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“From time to time you may use the water gourd to watch your husband and your brother,” the old man said. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Beings,” she said to her husband, “that we’ve got the fiddle for Paul Jones, little Blossom could take lessons too and both could practice on the same fiddle.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

If only there weren’t her husband to think of, right underfoot, at most six feet away. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Women came to comfort her, and their husbands paid condolence calls and hoped inwardly that she would soon move to another neighborhood and spare them the obligation of continuous sympathy. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

They loosened their stays and sighed the hours away and cursed the heat and their husbands, too, for dragging them to Caldwell County to plant cotton and acres of pecan trees. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Her first husband developed a hankering for corn whiskey and started using his big hands to make big fists. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“My husband, he is a stubborn man. He let no one cut his grazz. When he die under his tractor, he die a happy man.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

For the full-month ceremony my husband had found two eggs, which we dyed red by boiling them with a flag. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the wind died and his shirt settled, and she asked him to come in and sit in the front room; she would go, she said, to find her husband. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

"It's been four years for us and we still haven't moved. They don't give promotions to Indians. Your husband is just like mine—all talk and no money in the bank." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He seemed in a state of constant transition, phasing in and out of dimensions, unsure whether to be my father’s son or his wife’s husband. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It made her husband’s job exciting and wonderful and it gave her some glamour as well. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They decided to kill her husband, and run away together. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

In Greek mythology the sorceress Medea, enraged at being supplanted by a rival for the affections of her husband Jason, presented the new bride with a robe possessing magic properties. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

People talk about visiting grandparents in the hospital or sending birthday cards to a niece’s husband; single mothers live with their own mothers or share apartments with a coworker or boyfriend. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Stop howling. Your husband was a fool and you are a bore. I am not sorry I killed him.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two officers helped her husband inside, his body trembling. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

She ran back home from the morgue to find the medicine bottle, to give it to a judge, to convict the physician who had murdered her husband. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

All those not employed defending the Abbey would husband the crops and gather in supplies for the larders in the event of a prolonged siege. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I have a plan, husband,” I said brightly, touching his arm to regain his attention. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She sniffed, and nodded, and cried and wailed and keened for her husband, who would never come back to her. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“My husband is a good provider. We don’t need credit.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I’ve heard people try for their talent that were really good. Early this term an old man sang a song about... about this woman whose husband had gone off to war.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

For her, the European trips were simply pleasure jaunts, during which her husband took the chance to catch up with old friends. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Teresita’s husband had drawn many hills and even a creek along the crooked path, but no other signs of human life were depicted on the map. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

She gets me my drink du jour—water—introduces me to her children, and explains that it’s her husband’s day off, which he is spending upstairs in bed. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because your lazy husband forgets to put it out on the right pickup day. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

One of my husband’s male relatives had died and he had to attend the funeral. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

She let the phone ring, willing it to stop, to be interrupted by her husband’s voice. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Hipwell was last seen by her husband, Scott Hipwell, on Saturday night when she left the couple’s home to visit a friend at around seven o’clock. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Bennet had no turn for economy, and her husband’s love of independence had alone prevented their exceeding their income. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

“You gone leave your husband just cause you throwed up at some party?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“My second point,” Mom went on, “concerns the precise time my husband arrived at the hospital. See? It was 11:33 in the morning. Yesterday morning, Lieutenant.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“It reminded me of home. In England the boys used to light bonfires and march through the streets — ” “Such things are best not mentioned,” her husband silenced her. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Matilde will live with her husband and start having babies and have no time for a little sister. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the farm, Dr. Mudd’s wife, Frances, rose early, called for her servants to prepare breakfast, and woke her husband. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I followed my husband. I didn’t get involved.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had let them all down, her children, her husband, her House. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Your husband needs milk and vegetables and butter, not plain rice day after day.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My husband. Father has lost all his money. I must marry so he can be rich again.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

‘Your husband Ouranos was abusive. Your grandchildren the gods overthrew your beloved children the Titans. Your other children, the Cyclopes and the Hundred-Handed Ones, were thrown into Tartarus. You are so tired of heartache.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Several months later, they locked horns with their abolition movement colleagues again when Anthony assisted a woman who was being abused by her husband. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

So she walked into the kitchen alone and without forewarning to find out what was causing her husband’s outcry. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then her eyes snapped back to her husband. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

That night Henrietta told her husband, “Day, I need to go back to the doctor tomorrow. He wants to do some tests, give me some medicine.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Her parents still live in Egypt, and her husband is French. They met when he was studying in Cairo.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

She was thrilled by the opening discussions about her husband’s image appearing on a U.S. postal stamp. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

See, I need her to explain to her husband why a hundred-and-sixty-five-pound Negro woman has keys to his house. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Her husband refused to display the deference one might expect from a policeman. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Olive’s husband, Ernest, said, “Well, there’d be no harm in asking him. We would like to have him—or both of them—with us.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

"If my husband was a lion,” she said to her brother, "then what are my two sons?” The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

She narrowed her eyes at her smiling husband and put a hand on her hip. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He'd asked Big Harm's husband, who shares the Das surname because he's some sort of relative, to snip a lock of Baba's hair and put it in the urn before... You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I’ve taken away your husband, robbed your children of their father. You must despise me for it.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

She watched the cheating husbands and scheming wives as faithfully as ever, but she didn’t reprimand them anymore, as if she’d given up correcting the errors of the world. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Betty Jean opened the back door and held it open, gesturing for her husband to go inside. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was only trying to call her in cranes and the string broke! My husband will kill me if I do not catch her again. He is so hasty and such a keen falconer.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charity looks to an old black and white image of her and her late husband wedged into the dashboard. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Grandma had raised four daughters and four sons, and she was a true matriarch: Her husband had died after my mom got married, and she cared for the family on her own. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I knew I couldn’t ask, but I wondered what had happened with her husband. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

A white man named John Smith Pleasants inherited Mourning and her husband, George, from his father, one of the first slaveholders in Clover. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Who has fuelI She hears husbands yelling ar wives; she hears that a child has been run over by a truck on rhe road ahead. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I can still recite the litany of efforts it took to push a husband and children alive and fed through each day in the Congo. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nothing, Aunt Rose, I swear it. I just meant...like your husband? The ghost in the backyard? He was a good person, right?” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

My husband was a senator, but somehow people seemed to want to vault right over that. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It took a while for the doctor to revive her husband and even longer to elicit, through the man’s broken English, what he’d said that so enraged his wife. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When Kathy met her husband, she was twenty-one and he was thirty-four and a native of a country she knew almost nothing about. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“What then? Eight’s not enough? Jesus, woman, go clean your husband’s toilet for free.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Finally her husband came to beg her to change her clothes and make an appearance in the garden, even if only for ten minutes, to quell the rumors of the guests. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kneeling before our little statue of the Virgin with an eroded face I endeavored to pray for my future husband. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at her, in her red plaid skirt and strawberry T-shirt, a woman not yet thirty, who loved neither her husband nor her children, who had already fallen out of love with life. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

They moved that way, standing up in the bathtub with the water pouring over them and Susan Marie’s blond hair pasted to her face and her hands clutched around her husband’s head. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Burr wrote his beloved daughter Theodosia and her husband, extracting a promise that she would be allowed to pursue her study of Latin, Greek, and the classics. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

When the hymn ended, she held Turner’s hand and walked behind her husband’s casket as the deacons carried it out of the church. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

This my husband Samuel, she say, pointing up. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because of her politics, her husband lost his job at Lockheed, a company with government contracts. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

A few had super-involved husbands; others had husbands like mine, who were oversubscribed and away a lot. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She explained about her mother disappearing, and the note from Mrs. Cadaver, and Mrs. Cadavers missing husband, and the rhododendron, and finally about the lunatic and the mysterious messages. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Harrison was in charge while her husband was away on business when a black janitor passed along a tip: Word on the street was that neighbors were planning to bomb the Harrison house. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Ranee adjusts the necklace of golden flowers on the photo of her husband. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In November, 1955, she was travelling in Europe with her husband and all three of their children. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

She smiled slowly and walking through her husband as if he were a ghost shook hands with Tom, looking him flush in the eye. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

And now I am crying like a silly fool, when I know it comes from my husband’s great love and from the good, good wishes of those other strong men. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

When her husband called her attention to die children wrapping themselves into her curtains, she merely smiled and said, “Oh, let them be.” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She says that her husband had insisted on putting her name on the mailbox, her voice on the answering machine. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

My family lived in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago, in a tidy brick bungalow that belonged to Robbie and her husband, Terry. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“To the world we always seem to agree and uniformly reflect each other. Like husband and wife, each has the feeling that we must have no differences in public.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Your daughter has a beautiful home. Are she and her husband meeting with their new counselor?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The man next to her—her husband, from the familiar, tender way he touches her—tries to help her up, and the soldier lifts his gun and gestures for the man to keep going. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

In her career as a Marine wife she had failed in her efforts to train her husband to call when he would be working late or not returning home at all. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spoke mildly, for I did not want to scold my husband on the morning after our wedding, though I thought his behavior warranted it. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

You un-transform the research the scientists have made back into the scientists have made the research; you undo whom she suspects is her husband and get she suspects whom is her husband. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“So do husbands, I suspect. By then it is too late, for they are yoked to each other like oxen for the long haul.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

At a P.T.A. meeting at Wilson School, a couple of really red-blooded mothers stood up and volunteered their husbands to take large groups of trick-or-treaters around the neighborhood. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the same time she hears water running in the Cambridge kitchen, her husband opening a cupboard for a glass. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

And then, the woman begins to shift her consciousness from the dead father to the absent son, her husband. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why do she and her husband stay on, alone in this house?” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

As a girl I had often imagined myself in heaven, dressed in a white gown, standing in a pearly mist across from my husband. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Pasiphaë had been cursed to fall in love with her husband’s prize bull. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Everyone dresses up as Queen Esther, her husband the king, or Haman. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Bound by oaths of secrecy, she could tell no one what she had accomplished during the war, not even her husband. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

That night she excused herself early after telling her husband that she was going to take a tranquilizer to be sure of falling asleep. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a nervous type of laughing, the same kind as that of a landlady we once had after her husband died in a dentist’s chair while he was under gas. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Count Olaf, you are Violet’s husband, and therefore in complete control of her estate.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

She got up in the morning to fix breakfast and pack a lunch for her husband, then marinated a leg of lamb with wine and garlic. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I felt a fluttering excitement at the prospect of a getaway, of time alone with my husband. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The Moon Lady held her arms out to embrace him— “O! Hou Yi, my husband, Master Archer of the Skies!” she sang. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Either nobody else was interested or their husbands wouldn’t let them come, one. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“You chatter like a pair of monkeys,” said Kali’s husband, “with less sense. What use to talk of ‘exchange’ and so forth? Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day, after her husband had died, she was traveling on a train to visit her daughter, and she met and took an interest in a light-skinned man in the same railway car. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

MamS indicates her husband with a toss of the head. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did not come straight out and disagree with her husband's plans. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She got the guy accused of killing her husband, nailed him in the head and chest, seriously injuring a policeman and a court recorder along the way. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I saw only that she was a very young girl, frail beyond most, deserted by her husband and doing her best to feed herself and her children. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

You couldn’t refuse a hungry widow who’d lost her husband in the war some cloth or molasses on credit, but then how could we pay for new merchandise ourselves? My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She trying to get her husband to reduce. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Mama Oji, leave Pastor alone! First let your husband go back to the army he ran away from!” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“That was a decision between husband and wife. Why are you bringing up this ancient history?” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“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

It wasn’t till later I discovered several church members had lived together for years as husband and wife and had never gotten married. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

What a curious word for a wife to use about her husband. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My tears began to fall, and Hamlet became again the very picture of a loving husband. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“We should love to. The bishop is always so busy, alas. Please remember me to your husband, and be sure to ask him to revive the ball.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Though such beasts might be useful to my lord husband in his battles.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Juan Perón, who later became Evita’s husband and the dictator of Argentina, studied Hitler and his Italian sidekick, Mussolini, as role models. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“It is not Mr. Bingley,” said her husband; “it is a person whom I never saw in the whole course of my life.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

But when the music stops, she sees her husband’s hands, big- knuckled with long, square-tipped fingers, inordinately large even for his frame. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I w'as here. I was on my way to see ... to see Tom, my ex- husband, but I—” He squeezes his eyes shut, rubs his forehead. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since when do people go around saying hello to their husbands? The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

She let her husband hit her two small children, so I never really took the time to know her. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

For all her exposure to ideology she had no interest in politics and no idea of the schemes that occupied her husband night and day. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a gray day, and when Muller’s service had lowered the casket with oiled and silent winches the hearse drove away and the husband filled the grave himself with a new shovel. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had to stand by him—he was my husband. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hannah simply refused to live without the attentions of a man, and after Rekus’ death had a steady sequence of lovers, mostly the husbands of her friends and neighbors. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She saw women who smiled too much or drank too much and these were the women ordered to have a good time by their husbands. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Could you bring your husband an iced tea, please? He’s parched.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Jubilee? Abby has been talking nonstop about you. I’m Frank: mayor’s husband, cook, dinosaur wrangler, and Abby’s dad. You hungry? I’m making burgers.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I discovered that her name was Anna Boyd, and that my husband was in love with her. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in our bed, which Anatole calls the New Republic of Connubia, my husband tells me the history of the world. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

My husband ploughed it, steadying the plough behind the two bullocks while I came behind, strewing the seed to either side and sprinkling the earth over from the basket at my hip. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I never tire of it. But how is it that such a ghastly thing, a queen stabbing her husband in his bath, is so lovely to us?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Ophie’s thoughts were thick with questions about Aunt Rose’s husband, about the cookies tucked under the rosebush, about so many other things to do with ghosts. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

She knew she'd put off marriage for long enough, and she'd been told her future husband was a really nice guy. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Here she looked to her husband for him to agree—which he did by shaking his head. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over time, many of the investigators came to believe that Hattie Whitehorn, who had quickly spent some of her husband’s fortune after his death, was also complicit. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Already potentially responsible for her husband’s stroke, I had now committed a sacrilege at my first liturgical opportunity. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

My husband does not mistreat me at all in any way. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Aunt Maggie’s husband, the “uncle” who had fled from Arkansas in the dead of night, had deserted her; and now she was casting about for a living. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s like, I always look for the closest person to whoever passed away, y’know, like maybe a daughter or a son, or a wife or husband. That’s who I focus on. And this time...” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

One night, a short time before their first child was born, Fernanda realized that her husband had returned in secret to the bed of Petra Cotes. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I don’t suppose you know my husband and Collins had a run-in a while back?” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She had been a virgin when she married and had humbly submitted to her husband’s brutal love. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I said I could only marry after my husband was buried,” Lady Meng said. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

New Year’s Eve we gathered in Mama’s new house in Conuco, the sisters and all the husbands, a first since Maria Teresa’s wedding a year ago this February. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He signaled Skadi to follow him out into the night, and she and Odin walked out of the hall together, with her new husband by her side. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Was I fair just now in describing your husband’s state of mind as ‘terribly excited’ on the morning of the sixteenth—the morning Carl Heine was murdered? Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Julia Grant died on December 14,1902, at the age of seventy- six, and lies alongside her husband in a tomb in New York City. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Women declared elections and voted against their husbands. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The result was that the wives stayed in the villages, seeing their husbands every five years or so if they were lucky—though sometimes there were longer separations, as with Mother and Father. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The midwife chased Joan’s husband, her young son, two pigs, and a pigeon out of the cottage, bade Alyce wait for her in the yard, and slammed the cottage door. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have a husband, not my first, whose name is Ben. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Their names all ended with Y. Her husband, Clarence Pastor, had black lung and sat on the front porch of their huge sagging house all day long, but he never smiled or waved at passersby. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Age had thickened her husband, thinned his hair, and reduced the numerology by which Bull himself measured his fitness. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All I’m saying,” said Billy, “is your mama would be better off if she kept one eye on her husband and one eye on Aileen.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

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

If he stayed behind in Iran, they figured my mom would return to her husband. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

So Trujillo went and told the husband, who waited under the bridge for his wife and this general and shot them both dead. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On her lap lay one of those innumerable pads of paper her husband brought home from his office, compliments of some pharmaceutical company, advertising tranquilizers or antibiotics or skin cream. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He had to be held back by the great-breasted ones and their husbands grim. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Lillian went up to her husband and as soon as every eye was on her, she curtsied charmingly and asked him for the next dance. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few seconds later she returned her head to her husband’s chest—and heard his heart beating! Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She and her husband live in Los Angeles. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Her husband divorced her five years ago because she couldn’t be bothered about picking things up and taking care of her home. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I have the perfect spot for a nap. My husband built this cozy little den just for me. Come on. It’s right through here.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

She saw her meet up with her husband. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

"Mrs. Diamondstein is an old friend of mine. She asked me to stop by and meet her new husband. How would you like to ride home with me?" she asked. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

She had come to love her husband with all her heart, but she had never found it in her to love Jon. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Then her husband turned to her wan-eyed and with a greenish pallor which subdued the snowy whiteness of his hair, and asked:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

She said she didn’t want to be there, talking to Terryl, dealing with it, confronting her husband. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I know you think he’s not good enough, but I . . .” “Hate? Why do you think I hate your future husband?” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before she offered Ifemelu the job, she said, tone hushed in confidence, “My husband did not support me when I started this, because he thought men would chase me if I went to seek advertising.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Her home was back in Meereen, with her husband and her lover. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She had raised six children by herself as a seamstress after her husband’s death. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

They were beaten, humiliated and then made to suffer the envy of friends and relations for having such a wonderful husband and father. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

At breakfast—lumpy oats with no sugar—when I ask how to get to school and what time I’m expected to be there, Mrs. Byrne looks at her husband and then back at me. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“It would comfort me, my husband!” was all she said; and he began to read when she had got the book ready. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

So for a time I had a partner—my husband and I, soldiers together just as when we were little soldiers playing in the village. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She now owned her husband’s cattle, and because of this there were many men waiting to marry her. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“Briefly. At a show he was covering. We didn’t get a chance to speak. My husband saw to that.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

"He's well qualified for the job. And your husband, how's his writing coming along?" The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was always and only “spouse” or “wife” or “Mother”; he was “husband” or “Father” or “Henry’s father.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now since you're a fireman's wife, it's your house and your turn, for all the houses your husband burned and the people he hurt without thinking.. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This woman came out of her house with a man who was not her husband, so we had to punish her,” a spokesman said. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

My husband can till and sow and reap with skill, but here there is no land. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s see,” Gramps said, “didn’t Peeby want you to tell your daddy about Mrs. Cadaver and Mr. Birkway hacking up her husband?” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

She said there was something that she had never told her husband, and she feared he would not forgive her for it. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Their sons’ first and second wives were also in the pictures, first wives next to the husbands and second wives standing among the children. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I warn you, Miss Lumley! If they behave like wild animals at my party tomorrow, I will implore my husband to set them loose in the woods again, where they belong!” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Perhaps she had deeply loved her husband and this, her first awareness of feeling attraction again, was a startling revelation. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Fred and George had fastened an enormous bunch of golden balloons over the exact point where Bill and Fleur would shortly become husband and wife. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“My present husband, Colonel Blood, not only approves of this charity, but co-operates in it. I esteem it one of the most virtuous acts of my life.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I heard them order me back to the home of my husband’s parents. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

She left her family back in what was the old East Germany to make enough money to send for her husband and three grown children. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, because the childrens are a little greedy, it is true, Paolo says, “Is there anything else your dead husband doesn’t need?” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Her voice held both anger and a bitter hopelessness: for a long time now her husband’s shop had been doing badly. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I'll have my husband Billy carry you inside. There's hay and fresh water in the stables, for your beast." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I ask you to provide my husband and I with jobs.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Amaranta Úrsula returned with the angels of December, driven on a sailor's breeze, leading her husband by a silk rope tied around his neck. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“My husband thought they would help her adjust.” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Her husband, Dussel and the office staff gave her nothing but flowers and also food. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Ms. Jackson’s husband, Gabe Ugliano, claims that his stepson, Percy Jackson, is a troubled child who has been kicked out of numerous boarding schools and has expressed violent tendencies in the past. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Lily’s husband was West Indian, and they were members of the Communist Youth Movement. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her husband stares back at her, blinking rapidly as if he’d just awakened. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is good to be here, my husband.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

So Ruth rose up and out of her guileless inefficiency to claim her bit of balm right after the preparation of dinner and just before the return of her husband from his office. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She simply said in a way that made it clear there was no more to the story: “Your father is not my first husband. You are not those babies.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night while Ash was helping Clara undress for bed, she asked what had put her in such a good mood, and Clara said, “Ana believes she has found her husband.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when he comes in I’ll say, ‘Well, I see your husband is home. Thank you so much for the visit.’ The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The message had been delivered with a resounding, brutal frankness: Voters had elected her husband and not her. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Well, I hope you left some suitable excuse,” said her husband, somewhat appeased, as he added a dash of cayenne pepper to the soup. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

We settled into the den, me on the couch, Laura one cushion to my right, her husband across the way in a fine-looking chair—brass tacks, burgundy leather, matching footstool. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“You stole my husband!” she screamed at me, then she reached for Jorge, stretching her arms pathetically, her fingers moving like worms. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and her husband went down to New York and brought Billy home. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Few married women worked outside the home, but their days were full of tasks every bit as necessary as their husbands’ to keep the family afloat. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Jutta’s husband, Albert, is a kind, slow-moving, and balding accountant whose great passion is running model trains in the basement. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She finally abandoned her work, not so much because of her husband’s sarcasm, but because it seemed impossible to compete with the ancient pottery of the Indians. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, she had sons of her own and might well consider them suitable husbands, which I certainly could not, for they owned no land. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you’ll find out from your husband, there’s no reason why the bus couldn’t bring all the boys you need right to the spot in the morning.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

She was hiding behind her husband’s fears, bringing down scorn on him instead of herself. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her husband took a drink of orange juice as the bell rang again. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He threatened to keep me from my husband if I did not submit to his whim and destroy a paper that might help me get free. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

"My husband had a tennis game today with Victor Hubbard." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He had it from your father’s family that both she and her husband died of cholera almost as soon as they reached Marseilles. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn't tell her husband about the stillbirth, which aroused suspicion. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Her husband turned out to be not just a heavy drinker but a full-blown alcoholic with all an alcoholic’s deviousness and tragic charm. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

On New Year’s Eve, after years in a modest rented town house, she and her husband moved into a new house that reminds her of the Brady Bunch home. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

She began her sound effects career collaborating with her husband, Arthur Nichols, who invented the first sound machines for radio. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

I could feel her heart thumping like mad as she realized it was her own husband and her own mother lying there. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Blanca led the idle life that was her true vocation, while her husband gave himself to those small pleasures that only money can buy and that he had denied himself for such a long time. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Drinks with the names of people,” Desdemona complained to her mute husband back in the attic. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Big Harm gestures at her husband and Little Harm stands up. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her husband, and all the other villagers, watched her uncertainly. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Sit quietly with folded hands while the world rips their sons, husbands, sisters, loved ones to shreds. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The sadness in her husband’s eyes was unsettling to her. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

And you, my husband, what chance have you when so many young men are festering in idleness! Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night the woman’s husband, a farmer, loaded a wagon with produce. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My dear, you are too particular,” said her husband. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

“Aii, Lena,” she had said after that dinner so many years ago, “your future husband have one pock mark for every rice you not finish.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sat again, looking into the flames; until Guenever turned to her husband. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old woman stood frozen, the basket of sticky rice her husband had forgotten swinging from her fingertips. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Weasley opened the door to reveal her husband, a thin, balding, red-haired wizard wearing horn-rimmed spectacles and a long and dusty traveling cloak. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

But before she could release it her husband sprang forward. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

But he couldn’t very well send someone home with Azareen to take his place as...as her husband. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Show these children more courage than your husband did.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

"My lady, I swear to you, I will see that the Lannisters answer for your husband's murder," the king declared. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He’d plan it out well enough to plunk down a husband for every wife that He aims for to have one. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her husband managed to catch her before she fell to the floor in a dead faint. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she’s thirsty or hungry, she cooks for herself and only herself, not for a husband asking for this and that. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“The county discontinued bookmobile service in the eighties, and I told my husband, ‘Now, that’s a shame. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The legend was that her husband, my grandpa, forced her to go or else he would kill her. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Will you deliver? I don’t want to leave my apartment; my husband’s asleep and I want to be sure he’s all right.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Not yet. Your husband asked me to pick up Dallas’s passport here.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

If you decide yes, me and my husband Karl will help all we can. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“What if she doesn’t want to leave her husband?” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

She drops off some clothes at the dry cleaner’s where her sister’s former husband’s sister works. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

She is unable to stem the tide of junk mail that will continue to arrive for years, addressed to her dead husband. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You know, we try to get involved in the community, but it gets hard to fit it in with my schedule and my husband’s.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He thinks about his mother clipping an older woman’s bangs and asking her about her husband, who is in a nursing home. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

She thought about what her husband had said about his investments and about moving to an island. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

The woman was reluctant to say much at first, but soon she couldn’t stop telling the tale of her husband’s life. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Coffee is served and the husbands drink theirs, but most of the women keep rapt attention on Hilly. “... thanks to Boone Hardware... let us not forget Ben Franklin’s dime store...” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I forgot to say! My nephew is here, my first husband’s sister’s boy. He’s military, as I’m sure you saw.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

This certainly suggests that Nelson Davis, Harriet’s husband, was unable to make much of a financial contribution to the little house on South Street. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three weeks before I lost my mother, I had left South Carolina bound for Florida with her, her husband, and my brother. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The woman’s husband was a very jealous man, and Trujillo made friends with him, too. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My husband and I are going on a special cruise. To an island.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“My husband tells me you have been appointed a Viewer of Fences,” she smiled. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Lavey’s husband took the examination for letter carrier three years ago. He’s still working on a truck.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When his wife saw what her husband was doing, she was filled with admiration for him. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I was expected to hand over my life to a house, a husband, children. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“And beyond that, she said that plenty of married women have lovers—and sometimes their husbands die young, especially in a time of war. Can you believe that?” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

They were such good people, her husband's family, everyone so well educated, so open and hospitable, each of their houses full of constant laughter. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“I love you, husband,” she said, and then she turned and bolted, holding up her skirts above her knees, her lace-edged white drawers flashing as she ran toward home. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Just be happy you have your health and a good husband.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

You’d think we were husband and wife, the way we carry on. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The remembrance seemed for a while to overpower her, and she drooped and would have sunk down but for her husband’s sustaining arm. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Hattie’s new husband, Smitherman, had fled the country for Mexico, taking with him her car and a chunk of her money. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I would it were otherwise and she in my condition, for she is much afflicted since her husband has no use for her.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Terrifying memories of the earthquake the previous year were fresh in their minds; some of them had buried children and husbands and were still grieving. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Nicholas, husband and father, homeowner in England, spoke with a soberness so forbidding that it was almost comical. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“You would not die and leave your husband.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I stood up, and when Zeni saw me, she practically tossed her tiny daughter to her husband and ran across the room to embrace me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was so hungry that when her husband died from eating poisonous food, she ate his flesh and fed it to her children. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The family calls her Dale. She’s almost fifty now, still living in Baltimore, with grandchildren of her own. Henrietta’s husband is still alive. He’s around eighty-four—still goes to the clinics at Johns Hopkins.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

When, since her husband’s death, had Gertrude ever conversed privately with Claudius? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

And so she decided not to say a word, not to her husband or the authorities. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I must think of my husband and children. These are not times of plenty.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

She must have realized the truth—that her husband died because of her son. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Course Is happy. You happy too. Big house, big yard, husband looking after you.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Right. I’m going to clean this up for you, because it looks a bit nasty. Is there someone I can call for you? Your husband?” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lady Walda gave a shriek and clutched at her lord husband’s arm. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her husband brought the wagon to a creaking stop, and she hopped out. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The girl always was sleeping soundly and alone when her husband sneaked into their flat. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told Father Rachel would have to have the circus mission where they cut her so she wouldn’t want to run around with people’s husbands. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you know your uncle, ey?” the man asked at the same moment she recognized him for Judah, Aunt Clarissa’s husband, whom she hadn’t seen since she was a small thing. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t at all remember the story about her grandmother’s sister shooting her husband. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I saw everyone else going on with their own agendas while Mrs. Cadaver was frantically trying to keep her husband and her mother alive. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“There was a canoe of men, my husband, Hat, among them. They passed by Spirit Island. Saw the dead. Saw you.” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

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

"He will go as soon as he has his ten thousand. My lord husband promised a golden crown." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But when she had mounted to her rooms again with all her women, then she fell to weeping for Odysseus, her husband. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my regular interactions at work or around town, I’d find myself casually uttering this strange new term—“my husband.” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

After a quick kiss between husband and wife, she's off on a working Saturday. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

She sits in the chair next to Lincoln and then presses her face against her husband’s. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

When her husband came out to stop them, they tied him up also and dragged them both away. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

We humans cannot prove everything; we cannot understand everything, Emma told her husband. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kathy didn’t hesitate, and began to tell him that her husband had been wrongfully arrested, sent to a maximum-security prison, held there for twenty-three days, and that now they were trying to retrieve his possessions. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The husband looked in consternation at his wife, who merely lowered her gaze to the ground and told him that what the lion said was quite true. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

With work had come economic security, and a greater say in household affairs, which put some women on collision courses with their husbands. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

She smiled often, stood close to her husband, and sometimes even touched his arm in public. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

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

She had been husbanding her own misery, shaping it, making of it an art and a Way. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Living in a city like this was madness, fleeing it was madness, leaving her husband alone in a home in the path of a hurricane was madness. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Long before the year was up, Janie noticed that her husband had stopped talking in rhymes to her. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

By the minute, my eight-year-old heart grew more and more terror-stricken over the growing possibility that my future husband was fated to be this mean boy Arnold. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Live,” she pleads to her husband before she leaves. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

By that summer she had a husband picked out for Tessie, too. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The post was owned and manned by a husband, a wife, and one small boy, but they had a good radio and could call for help. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Evy, fearful lest her husband lose his job, asked whether she couldn’t take his route while he was in the hospital. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, they don’t make silk in Detroit? she triumphantly asked her absent husband. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I’m afraid I didn’t miss the physical presence of my husband in his absences as much as I missed coffee. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was hoping her husband might actually be at the hos-pital when she gave birth. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a teenager, Caroline became the drum majorette for the school’s marching band, went parking down by the Canoe Club with the boy who would become her husband a few years later. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The landlord's wife did not actually shout, but one could hear her talking incessantly both late into the night as she and her husband went about their tasks, and again from very early this morning. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

In a marriage ceremony, husband and wife stand tightly bound by their nzole and hold one another to be the most precious: nzolani. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wrote, “When I find a husband for you who is rich enough to satisfy me, you will be released from my Olga. Until then, I urge you to be, as always, my stalwart daughter.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The earnings potential is uncertain, and she has no health benefits under this new part-time arrangement, relying instead on her husband’s. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I watched my husband’s face closely, not sure I was ready to hear what he was going to say. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The walls of Jean de Satigny’s studio were covered with distressing erotic scenes that revealed her husband’s hidden character. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked Hyde Park as the perfect community in which to hide, and the role of Zelda Segovia’s husband as a perfect disguise. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

She grinned and winked at her husband, and he blew her a kiss back. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

What was there left for her to live for now—her husband would not have her and her brothers were far away. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“With you. You left your husband. Was there someone else?” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ve despoiled me, you beardless boy. My lord husband will cut your balls off and put you in a dress.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It had not been lost on Mrs. Richardson that Izzy was missing, and—she was sure—this was what her husband was discussing with the policemen right now. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

My sisters all looked towards me, expecting I would chide my husband for making light of sacred things. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama said that even if you didn’t have a lot of money, you got to live in that world while your future husband was courting you. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Sigyn looked at her bound husband and at the disemboweled corpse of her wolf-murdered son. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

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

Mrs. Levy asked her husband proudly, all traces of hostility gone from her voice. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her husband controlled her every move and kept her away from everyone she had once known, they said. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Felicia approaches the bleached, crumpled heap that will be her husband. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mechanist-pilot was asleep in her bed, her head on her husband’s shoulder, and though the earlier chaos flared through her dreams—and his, in smaller measure—the rest of the outsiders were untroubled. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She had quit in the hospital, then returned home to a husband and a neighbor who both smoked. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

All at once, I lost my home, my husband, my son, my peace of mind. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind him, his child wept noisily against her mother’s leg, but the woman, like her husband, was silent. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Ted’s husband, Rory, is a graphic artist, and he wrote out my parents’ Jewish marriage contract in calligraphy, decorated with colorful flowers, vines, and stars. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

My mother was thirty-four years old now, with no husband, no provider or protector to take care of her eight children. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I am writing to let you know that my husband and I support your decision to allow Jack to return to Beecher Prep after a two-day suspension. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want this cruel boy to be my future husband. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t call you Dad because Mom’s husband, Paul, is my dad. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Soon afterward, the King announced a grand celebration in the City during Yule that winter, and Lady Isobel was overjoyed, for Ana was well ready to find a husband. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under the thin shirt I saw the figure of a woman and I whispered hastily to my husband: “Be careful—it is a woman.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Portia said good-bye to her husband and brother at the gate and knocked on the screen door. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“My husband, he likes to look at the sky.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Curley Johnson’s widow, meanwhile, was sure that her husband had been murdered—intentionally poisoned by Hale and his henchmen. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I could tell by the hard set of my husband’s jaw following these sessions that the situation was worse than most Americans even understood. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“She is a Russian. Her husband realized all this money before the Revolution and invested it abroad. She is extremely rich. A cosmopolitan.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instinct had prompted her to put away her husband’s bounty in casting off her allegiance. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus I might act as the neck that turned my husband’s head away from his revenge, I thought, remembering Elnora’s advice. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

In the first plane, her husband controlled the wings and she could see his eyes set with purpose and she knew that he was at this moment a supremely happy man. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When my husband died”—Jesse could hardly imagine Mrs. Myers ever having had a husband—“people kept telling me not to cry, kept trying to make me forget.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Yes. That is my husband, George. Passed away four years ago. He pops in every once in a while to check on his garden. He’s waiting for me.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

She told him that she and her husband were expecting houseguests, and she wanted the stairway and guest room painted in five days’ time. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

But this is where my husband is and I wouldnt want to be anywhere in this world except close by his side. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, and I am proud to say, young ladies, that my husband is one of the men hired after you all shut that meatpacking industry down.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I had a big fight with my husband. I didn’t want to go to work this morning but he said I had to. ” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sad little nonsense letters about minor troubles, her husband’s job and who the children favored. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Flossie was a quiet lush, though, usually going to sleep right after dinner, and she had never done her husband dirty. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aunt Consuelo smiled at her husband, who nodded at her, then looked away out the window. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

If a woman suddenly came into an inheritance, it immediately became her husband’s property. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“Your husband was trying to help,” the tall one said, but of course it was all speculation. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Her husband would have done just that, said it again, but Mr. Hoo only nodded in shared sympathy. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her husband, a product of a southern plantation, had, like my father, gone off and left her. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt, like a stabbing in my bones, the pain of deciding to break from my husband. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She told him the story of her husband’s incarceration, and that she was coming to get him. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Waiting for her husband to leave on his business trips so she could play Debussy on the piano. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only about two weeks before I arrived, she had split up with her second husband—the soldier, Frank, whom I had met there the previous summer; but she was taking it right in stride. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

One hundred wedding trunks could not buy Awaiting Marriage even a hunchbacked, lame-footed husband. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

They had climbed out of their palanquins to watch their husband fight me, and now they were holding each other weeping. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charles Whitehorn’s widow said she was sure that the same parties who had murdered her husband would soon “do away with her.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I applaud your fortitude. Now, as it happens, your husband did not resist his gleaning.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Do you want your husband to kill this man?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z