Even though I don’t agree with the idea of wifely submission, and even find it personally unethical. From Wordnik.com. [Newsflash: Boycotting weddings is not a loving act] Reference
Here is a mild Manilla, -- there is a wifely smile. From Wordnik.com. [Pipe and Pouch The Smoker's Own Book of Poetry] Reference
Take wifely home li'l preshent -- you know how 'tish. From Wordnik.com. [The Diamond Cross Mystery Being a Somewhat Different Detective Story] Reference
First in a human, or even if you like in a wifely way. From Wordnik.com. [Salvage for the Saint]
And this was what her notions of wifely duty had led to!. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873] Reference
Gotta please wifely when you -- hic -- been out al 'night. From Wordnik.com. [The Diamond Cross Mystery Being a Somewhat Different Detective Story] Reference
Arundhati, the heavenly model of wifely faith and devotion. From Wordnik.com. [Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works] Reference
Thash what'll square wifely when I been out -- hic -- al'night. From Wordnik.com. [The Diamond Cross Mystery Being a Somewhat Different Detective Story] Reference
With me went Elizabeth's best effort at a fond wifely farewell. From Wordnik.com. [Forfeit]
KING: You preformed every wifely duty you were supposed to perform. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 29, 2002] Reference
Want a behind-the-scenes wifely first lady who just wants people to read?. From Wordnik.com. [chicagojo Diary Entry] Reference
She accedes to the subservient wifely role typical of women of her generation. From Wordnik.com. [Middlesex]
With a noble blindness, the fanaticism of wifely faith, she rejected it utterly. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859] Reference
This wifely counsel was accompanied by a teasing smile that belied its harshness. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer] Reference
Stories also of wifely and husband affection and the reverse are preserved in song. From Wordnik.com. [Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before] Reference
Kano, from the tail of his eye, marked with approval these tokens of wifely submission. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Painter] Reference
I have other stuff on my mind to, But I must get back to my wifely and motherly duties!. From Wordnik.com. [moee Diary Entry] Reference
The character of Philomela possesses strong traits of feminine virtue and wifely fidelity. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Prose Fiction] Reference
Docile as ever, and eager to gratify my lightest wish, she left no wifely duty unfulfilled. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860] Reference
A parallel to this, illustrative of wifely devotion, is recorded in the early history of Germany. From Wordnik.com. [Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala] Reference
Paulina, in fact, is the lofty, the impossible, ideal of wifely and daughterly truth and devotion. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
But the sound of his fall awakened all her wifely instincts, and she rushed into the sight of all. From Wordnik.com. [The Scarlet Feather] Reference
So the identification process here really comes down to maternal or wifely instincts at this point. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 19, 2002] Reference
She ran to him ardently, as she had before, with her perfect art, and kissed him with wifely affection. From Wordnik.com. [A Husband by Proxy] Reference
Of course she had not asked questions, she said with a pleasant little assumption of wifely submission. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876] Reference
Even when fulfilling the wifely forgery of grocery shopping, she was curtailed by financial considerations. From Wordnik.com. [Corpus of a Siam Mosquito] Reference
At last, seeing he felt that he must go, Martha reluctantly consented, and fitted him out with wifely care. From Wordnik.com. [Choice Readings for the Home Circle] Reference
But how, you will ask, is the idea of this guiding function of the woman reconcilable with a true wifely subjection?. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
Her husband remaining indifferent, she assumed her wifely prerogative to pass rigorous judgment upon his conscience. From Wordnik.com. [The Henchman] Reference
"Well, Livy," he said to his wife, who was only then descending from the carriage, "do you not have such a wifely greeting for me?". From Wordnik.com. [Unlikely Duchess]
With her added cares of wifely duty this gave a sober look to her untameable childish bloom; she was almost a business-like beauty now. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
Her search in her husband's pockets was only what might have been expected from the average woman, but the wifely submission was special. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876] Reference
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