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There’s a ballet teacher with warmth but no power in the company’s male hierarchy; there’s a well-married and overbearing dance mom.

From Washington Post

What goes on behind those walls, naturally, is no outsider's business, and the great majority of the foreign colonists�retired businessmen, artists and writers, well-heeled or well-married expatriates�are thoroughly respectable, thoroughly discreet, or sometimes both.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the ideal home, between well-married husband and wife, child and parent, brother and sister, this sweet law prevails.

From The Five Great Philosophies of Life by Hyde, William De Witt

I make no reservation of your being well-married; you have so much sense, and knowledge of human nature, that though you may not realise perhaps the ideas of romance, yet you will never be ill-married.

From The Letters of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert

Mike Duffy and his wife came into the Quins' kitchen one week-day night, dressed in their Sunday clothes; they had been making a visit to their well-married daughter in Lawrence.

From The Queen's Twin and Other Stories by Jewett, Sarah Orne