1 I was at work for myself and newly-married wife.
2 I was made acquainted with his wife not less than with himself.
3 His wife used to insist upon our calling him so, but to no purpose.
4 He kept me himself, and his wife dressed my wound till I was again restored to health.
5 In about two years after the death of Mrs. Lucretia, Master Thomas married his second wife.
6 Sandy had a free wife who lived about four miles from Mr. Covey's; and it being Saturday, he was on his way to see her.
7 Such was his joy, and that of his wife, that nothing they could do for Caroline during her confinement was too good, or too hard, to be done.
8 It, however, was not so severe as the one I dreaded at the division of property; for, during this interval, a great change had taken place in Master Hugh and his once kind and affectionate wife.
9 The very decided manner with which he spoke, and strove to impress his wife with the evil consequences of giving me instruction, served to convince me that he was deeply sensible of the truths he was uttering.
10 The wife of Mr. Giles Hicks, living but a short distance from where I used to live, murdered my wife's cousin, a young girl between fifteen and sixteen years of age, mangling her person in the most horrible manner, breaking her nose and breastbone with a stick, so that the poor girl expired in a few hours afterward.