A book about a lonely wife of a seaman is one thing, but it's something else if her husband's name is Ahab.

Charlie's lonely, unhappily married wife Marie makes a play for Johnny, who resists her advances.

It is not long, however, before the shepherd husband wanders off, leaving his wife lonely and heartbroken.

"There are a lot of lonely wives around, a lot of children who don't know if they're going to see their dads again."

You must have plenty of opportunities, what with all the lonely young wives in a parish.

Ida enjoys the company of another woman, their employer's lonely wife, Jean Halstead.

His young and lonely wife remarries.

A photographer and a farmer's lonely wife in Iowa.

The story is a classic: the lonely wife, the inattentive husband, the dashing other man.

The First Lady of the Solar Empire had become a very lonely wife.