Under the white man's law the man makes all decisions, and has to be guardian so-called, over his wife.
The Colonel was working over his wife, and presently she opened her eyes.
The demons inside of him, responding to the grief over his wife.
He said something to a male graduate student, pumped the student's hand while running his eyes over the young man's pretty wife.
No doubt the fight was over an important man's wife.
Does she think they have influence over a cabinet minister's wife?
He might be getting married over again-he and his wife.
"You got no control over your wife at all, do you?"
A husband had power over his wife, her body, and their children.
The man was still sobbing over his wife in the elevator.