A commoner may strike his wife in anger, but not a chief.

Sebastian Curtis looked as if he was going to strike his wife.

Mink kills Houston; he strikes his wife and she leaves him, taking the children.

After the childhood muggings, he was said to have struck his first wife.

It was that he had struck his wife.

On one occasion he struck his wife as she met him from market.

The crowd threw stones which broke Richardson's windows and struck his wife.

I don't believe that man ever could have struck his wife or kicked the maid.

There is a Hindu proverb which states that you should never strike your wife, not even with a flower.

Now you have struck my wife in the face.