wifely

This was a very wifely thing to do, she realized.

You are being given a little bit of wifely discipline, my dear.

And what was the point of all this wifely subservience?

I just breezed by for a very wifely reason, Jim.

She would not shudder at that part of her wifely duty.

This last phrase may be taken as a wifely euphemism.

Together we went along the path through the wood, she keeping equal step with me in wifely way.

Will ads begin to show men who actually know, without wifely lectures, how to do laundry?

"I thought it was some wifely scruple the other night.

"Assuming my husband listens to the voice of sweet wifely reason," she added.

His wife, taking a wifely privilege, laughed at him.

"You have much to learn of wifely behavior, sweet," he gritted out.

Her wifely status had pestered me ever since my arrival at the base.

The wifely, natural, familiar gesture sent an electric shock through his system.

A decade at the coal face of wifely concern?

Monica regarded her husband with that cold, wifely eye which married men learn to dread.

She was renowned for her ravishing good looks and wifely virtue.

Oh yes, she'd a highly defined sense of "wifely duty" and we'd produced a family.

I will compensate for my shortcomings with cleanliness and wifely virtue.

But she'd picked up the idea that it was a wifely duty, and so she did it.

He knew to his cost that her wifely radar could fry an egg half a mile away.

No law of the island or the church could stop her from gazing upon his splendor with wifely pride.

The soft mellowness of her voice was laced with wifely concern.

That would be the wifely thing to do, certainly, but mistressly?

If Tansy refused her wifely duty then she was trapped indeed.