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1  I say, wife, she'll have to get away from here, this very night.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
2  The truth flashed upon Mr. Shelby and his wife at the same moment.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  "I'll think the matter over, and talk with my wife," said Mr. Shelby.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
4  "I am not accustomed to hear my wife spoken of with such freedom," said Mr. Shelby, dryly.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  It was during the happy period of his employment in the factory that George had seen and married his wife.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
6  "Your heart is better than your head, in this case, John," said the wife, laying her little white hand on his.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
7  His wife took the baby in her arms to go with him to the wagon, and the children, still crying, trailed on behind.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
8  But his wife's expostulations awoke his half-slumbering regrets; and Tom's manly disinterestedness increased the unpleasantness of his feelings.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
9  The thing had been remarked with petulant jealousy by his wife, and she regarded her husband's absorbing devotion to the child with suspicion and dislike; all that was given to her seemed so much taken from herself.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
10  His wife, and their only colored domestic, old Aunt Dinah, were busily engaged in restorative measures; while old Cudjoe had got the boy on his knee, and was busy pulling off his shoes and stockings, and chafing his little cold feet.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
11  He returned south to make arrangements for their marriage, when, most unexpectedly, his letters were returned to him by mail, with a short note from her guardian, stating to him that ere this reached him the lady would be the wife of another.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
12  I wonder, Mr. Wilson, if the Indians should come and take you a prisoner away from your wife and children, and want to keep you all your life hoeing corn for them, if you'd think it your duty to abide in the condition in which you were called.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
13  At this critical juncture, old Cudjoe, the black man-of-all-work, put his head in at the door, and wished "Missis would come into the kitchen;" and our senator, tolerably relieved, looked after his little wife with a whimsical mixture of amusement and vexation, and, seating himself in the arm-chair, began to read the papers.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
14  Well, lately Mas'r has been saying that he was a fool to let me marry off the place; that he hates Mr. Shelby and all his tribe, because they are proud, and hold their heads up above him, and that I've got proud notions from you; and he says he won't let me come here any more, and that I shall take a wife and settle down on his place.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
15  The light of the cheerful fire shone on the rug and carpet of a cosey parlor, and glittered on the sides of the tea-cups and well-brightened tea-pot, as Senator Bird was drawing off his boots, preparatory to inserting his feet in a pair of new handsome slippers, which his wife had been working for him while away on his senatorial tour.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
16  Now, if the truth must be told, our senator had the misfortune to be a man who had a particularly humane and accessible nature, and turning away anybody that was in trouble never had been his forte; and what was worse for him in this particular pinch of the argument was, that his wife knew it, and, of course was making an assault on rather an indefensible point.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
17  His wife opened the little bed-room door adjoining her room and, taking the candle, set it down on the top of a bureau there; then from a small recess she took a key, and put it thoughtfully in the lock of a drawer, and made a sudden pause, while two boys, who, boy like, had followed close on her heels, stood looking, with silent, significant glances, at their mother.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
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