conjugal duty

A single attempt to fulfill their conjugal duties had failed.

He had certainly not failed in his conjugal duties.

She was free from the dictates of historic Christianity about conjugal duty and unrestricted reproduction.

For her part, Tabatha is leery of marrying a man unable to fulfill his conjugal duties.

"Are you performing your conjugal duties?"

Afterward he had found his wife strictly obedient to her conjugal duties but had himself felt a species of religious dislike to them.

In fact, men and women were only allowed to mix during meals, chaste, royal functions, and when married couples performed conjugal duties.

There is indeed a tendency to regard the contribution of wives to family businesses as a self-evident extension of conjugal duties.

Many religions enumerate conjugal duties.

The men who live too long are killed by their sons, who are impatient to assume their conjugal duties."

Restrained by a sense of conjugal duty, Mrs. Romsey only indulged in an exclamation.

In the vaulted alleys, the shopkeepers sat motionless within a musty mental quadrilateral of fabrics, money, iron weights and measures, and conjugal duty.

He ordered Henrietta to return to her conjugal duties, and even obtained a writ from the Lord Chief Justice authorizing him to seize his wife.

When Donough bit back his pride long enough to ask what they were discussing, the priest replied, "I am giving her advice as to her conjugal duties."

When an enigmatic hypnotist cures her of these ills, her husband, Nico, begins to shirk his work as a surgeon and his conjugal duties.

For married couples this consecration will be a valuable aid in their conjugal duties of chastity and faithfulness and keep pure the atmosphere in which children grow up.

Bede says: "Prayers are hindered by the conjugal duty because as often as I perform what is due to my wife I am not able to pray."

The union was short-lived: King Philip VI died one year later, on 22 August 1350, according to some chroniclers of exhaustion from constantly fulfilling his conjugal duties.

The seed of future unhappiness lay rather in Frank's vehement, passionate disposition; which led him to resent his wife's shyness and want of demonstration as failures in conjugal duty.

For a time things had improved; his wife had been a foolish woman, concerned only with her appearance, social engagements and feminine trivia, but she had performed her conjugal duties satisfactorily.

In the show's brightest moment, "Sing for Your Supper," she, Ms. Luker and Sarah Uriarte Berry advise women everywhere to discharge their conjugal duties with gusto.

The Gemara read "if you shall afflict" to mean by denying conjugal duty, and the Gemara read "if you shall take" to refer to marrying rival wives.

The President's lawyers argued that Mrs. Lusinchi had abandoned him, had failed to fulfill her conjugal duties for 19 years and had refused to join him in Miraflores Palace.

Predictably, rather than fulfilling his conjugal duties Puthisen took advantage of his new position to steal back the eyeballs of his long-suffering aunts along with some magical potions designed to facilitate his escape.

It is also known as La Malcontenta, a nickname which it received when the spouse of one of the Foscaris was locked up in the house because she allegedly didn't live up to her conjugal duty.