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WIVES

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wives plural de la wife.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

These men about me should have wives, and sisters, and daughters; then would they be capable of softness, and tenderness, and sympathy.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

Men like women, certainly their wives, to be quite as fair as they are; and women, I am afraid, are not always quite as fair as they should be.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Or, she may have had assistance from the boatmen, and the boatmen's wives and children.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

You have only made the mistake that most young wives make—forgotten your duty to your husband in your love for your children.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

McCarthy had one son, a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same age, but neither of them had wives living.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Doubtless their wives loved them, and suffered with them and for them, not because of but in spite of their infatuation for perpetual motion.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

With such examples before them the wives of the English captains had become as warlike as their mates, and ordered their castles in their absence with the prudence and discipline of veteran seneschals.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In spite of the wives' agreement that such malevolence was beyond credibility, the dispute ended in a short struggle, and both wives were lifted kicking into the night.

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

But what sounds like good nutritional advice turns out to be an old-wives' tale.

(Salty Diet Makes You Hungry, Not Thirsty, Editura Global Info)

They are likewise of special use to husbands and wives who are grown weary of their mates; to eldest sons, to great ministers of state, and often to princes.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)




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