"Wifely" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... trousseau, and had even been obliged to serve as maid of honour at the wedding. She had seen, day by day, the man's love increase and the girl's fancy wane, and, after his blindness came upon him, Constance would often have been cruelly thoughtless had not Miriam sternly held her to her own ideal of wifely duty. ...
— Flower of the Dusk • Myrtle Reed
... too," said she. "Mike's stronger for a man nor even I am for a woman"—a glow of wifely pride passing over her face; "and as to good looks, it's him as is got the good looks, not me. But none on us can't make it out about the chavo. He's so weak and sick he don't look as if he belonged to ...
— The Romany Rye - A Sequel to 'Lavengro' • George Borrow
... me stronger," said the wife with wifely pride, "Toil I shall not feel nor languor when my lord is ...
— Maha-bharata - The Epic of Ancient India Condensed into English Verse • Anonymous
... grinned worse than ever, and appeared to be in imminent peril of extending his torn mouth into the region of his ear. Diane listened to the horrible suggestion without misgiving, merely remarking in true wifely fashion— ...
— The Night Riders - A Romance of Early Montana • Ridgwell Cullum
... Darmesteter's toilful scholar life was his tender friendship with the gifted English woman, A. Mary F. Robinson. Attracted by her lovely verse, the intellectual companionship ripened into love, and for his half-dozen final years he enjoyed her wifely aid and sympathy in what seems to have been an ideal union. The end, when it came, was quick and painless. Always of a frail constitution, stunted in body from childhood, he died in harness, October 19th, 1894, his head falling forward on his desk ...
— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern -- Volume 11 • Various
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