HUSBAND in Classic Quotes

1  Her husband stopped short at sight of her.

Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In III

2  Her husband hardly heard what she was saying.

Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In III

3  "You might 'a' shook off that snow outside," she said to her husband.

Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In II

4  Her husband, without stopping to hear the end of the phrase, had left the kitchen and sprung up the stairs.

Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In IX

5  Though she was but seven years her husband's senior, and he was only twenty-eight, she was already an old woman.

Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In III

6  Her husband had given her the farm and she had managed to sell it, and with that and the alimony she had started a lunch-room at Bettsbridge and bloomed into activity and importance.

Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In VIII

7  Zeena's native village was slightly larger and nearer to the railway than Starkfield, and she had let her husband see from the first that life on an isolated farm was not what she had expected when she married.

Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In IV

8  He was a poor man, the husband of a sickly woman, whom his desertion would leave alone and destitute; and even if he had had the heart to desert her he could have done so only by deceiving two kindly people who had pitied him.

Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In VIII

9  Twice or thrice before she had suddenly packed Ethan's valise and started off to Bettsbridge, or even Springfield, to seek the advice of some new doctor, and her husband had grown to dread these expeditions because of their cost.

Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In III