Example Sentences

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Doubtless it is hard for you to imagine any woman guilty of such unwifelike conduct.

From The Two Wives Or, Lost and Won by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)

What she mistook for unwifelike reserve was an incessant effort to control herself to play the woman and not the child.

From Jessamine A Novel by Harland, Marion

I can't be so unwifelike after all; for I am sure nothing makes me feel so small and foolish as that humility of his!

From The Heir of Redclyffe by Yonge, Charlotte Mary