I hope I am chasing a woman my wifelike he is being accused off, when I am 64.    From Wordnik.com.  [Divorce Turns Ugly for Nevada’s Governor - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

And Catherine smiled through the tears that were trembling in her eyes, at the half sad, half playful words; and a wifelike glance of trustfulness told how very dear he was.    From Wordnik.com.  [Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 42, January, 1851] Reference

She used the Japanese word Danna-san, Sir Master, and although she had never yet allowed Kamejdro to master her at anything, she sang the word in a lilting, wifelike manner and dropped her eyes, and all the men there thought: "How lucky Kamejiro was to make that swap.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Hawaii]

Perhaps she had been too wifelike in her manner, and therefore he had feared.    From Wordnik.com.  [He Fell in Love with His Wife] Reference

Sir Lucius and Lady Aphrodite Grafton were indeed on the best possible terms, and the whole county admired his conjugal attentions and her wifelike affections.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Duke] Reference

She, with “wifelike government,” kept the money, and heartened me to write, and write I did but with awful sufferings and difficulty, and much destruction of sleep.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spare Hours] Reference

So far from meaning to hint that she had been too wifelike, he had meant to acknowledge her simple and natural fulfillment of his wishes in a position far more difficult to fill than even he imagined.    From Wordnik.com.  [He Fell in Love with His Wife] Reference

And to the wonder of all present, the reformed shrewish lady spoke as eloquently in praise of the wifelike duty of obedience, as she had practiced it implicitly in a ready submission to Petruchio's will.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales from Shakespeare] Reference

” And to the wonder of all present, the reformed shrewish lady spoke as eloquently in praise of the wifelike duty of obedience, as she had practiced it implicitly in a ready submission to Petruchio’s will.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Taming of the Shrew] Reference

Mr.. Hay, if her husband had for a moment supposed the general would wish to see him, he would not have gone, adding, with just a little touch of proper, wifelike spirit, that on the general's previous visits he had never seemed to care whether he saw Mr. Hay or not.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Daughter of the Sioux A Tale of the Indian frontier] Reference

A wifelike antipathy to a record of this nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General] Reference

Enough to stand up, wifelike, by his side.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation] Reference

“But, my lord,” continues Mr. Melworth, “how shall I look up to your lordship, or in what language shall I express — — —?” — “Mr. Melworth,” interrupted the peer, “your wife is a very unfashionable woman, and, I am sorry to say, totally unfit to be trusted with a secret; she is almost the only married lady with whom I ever attempted to commence a correspondence, and I find she has betrayed me in the very first instance; I shall have an opportunity of being introduced to her in the course of our morning’s engagement, and I shall then advise her to conduct herself, on any future occasion of the like kind, with more modern and wifelike prudence and propriety.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Francis, the Philanthropist: an unfashionable tale] Reference

When Portia parted with her husband, she spoke cheeringly to him, and bade him bring his dear friend along with him when he returned; yet she feared it would go hard with Antonio, and when she was left alone, she began to think and consider within herself, if she could by any means be instrumental in saving the life of her dear Bassanio's friend; and notwithstanding, when she wished to honor her Bassanio, she had said to him with such a meek and wifelike grace that she would submit in all things to be governed by his superior wisdom, yet being now called forth into action by the peril of her honored husband's friend, she did nothing doubt her own powers, and by the sole guidance of her own true and perfect judgment, at once resolved to go herself to Venice, and speak in Antonio's defense.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Children's Hour, v 5. Stories From Seven Old Favorites] Reference

When Portia parted with her husband, she spoke cheeringly to him, and bade him bring his dear friend along with him when he returned; yet she feared it would go hard with Antonio, and when she was left alone, she began to think and consider within herself, if she could by any means be instrumental in saving the life of her dear Bassanio's friend; and notwithstanding when she wished to honour her Bassanio, she had said to him with such a meek and wifelike grace, that she would submit in all things to be governed by his superior wisdom, yet being now called forth into action by the peril of her honoured husband's friend, she did nothing doubt her own powers, and by the sole guidance of her own true and perfect judgment, at once resolved to go herself to Venice, and speak in Antonio's defence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales from Shakespeare] Reference