wives

These are men who now have wives and children, and their silence so many years later shows how morally bankrupt they remain.

Vicars' wives had come and gone, but all had submitted, some after a brief struggle, to old Mrs. Wurzel's sway.

Smoking, the angry and fuming king protests, had made our manners as rude as those of the fish-wives of Dieppe.

Then counting Noah and his wife, and his three sons and their wives, there were four pairs of human beings altogether.

Their inhabitants shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes: their houses shall be pillaged, and their wives shall be ravished.

Something I had heard years ago, some old wives' tales about a man's life changing every seven years, kept dinning in my head.