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Nevertheless, it was indispensable that she should at once be brought under prudent subjection; and made to know, once for all, that though conjugally a rebel, she must be nautically submissive.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Melville, Herman

Notwithstanding the blustering threat—for which Smith was probably more than half responsible—Burns was afterwards content to "own bonny Jean conjugally."

From The Letters of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert

I passed only a few months in Rome, where I saw the most beautiful woman in the world, who has since died in her husband's palace in Florence, conjugally regretted by Prince Borghese.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. by Various

Courage espied a travelling carriage, with a man and his wife in it quarrelling most conjugally, and he civilly begged he might be permitted to occupy the vacant seat opposite the lady.

From The Pilgrims of the Rhine by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron