child wife
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of child wife
First recorded in 1835–45
Example Sentences
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And so he is doomed, not only by Corruption, in the person of Parkinson, but by Innocence, personified in Marie Rycker, the child wife of a local factory operator.
From Time Magazine Archive
Claudia, the child wife, is Dorothy McGuire, who perfected the part on Broadway.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is a common thing for prisoners, even during the longest term, to be more solicitous about mother, child, wife, brother or friend than about themselves.
From Crime: Its Cause and Treatment by Clarence Darrow
So Poe came to New York, and with him Virginia, his child wife, who was already marked a victim of consumption, and there in the Carmine Street house they lived.
From Literary New York Its Landmarks and Associations by Charles Hemstreet
Who dare for child, wife, country--stream and strand, Though but a fraction to the swarming foe, There--at the flooded gateways of the land, To stem a torrent's flow.
From War Poetry of the South by Various
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