Better be happy old maids than unhappy wives, or unmaidenly girls, running about to find husbands, said Mrs. March decidedly. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特.小妇人.
The English men of fashion in Paris courted her, too, to the disgust of the ladies their wives, who could not bear the parvenue. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
I am sure we are constantly hearing, ma'am, till it becomes quite nauseous, concerning their wives and families,' said Bitzer. 查尔斯·狄更斯.艰难时事.
Plenty of them have other wives. 欧内斯特·海明威.永别了,武器.
The Emperor of Morocco don't know how many wives he has, but thinks he has five hundred. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
I would be glad to talk about wives. 欧内斯特·海明威.永别了,武器.
Mother, you are better to me than ten wives yet. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.维莱特.
Single men have, no doubt, a right to curse themselves as much as they please; but men with wives involve two in the doom they pray down. 托马斯·哈代.还乡.
One of his wives was a Jewess, Safiyya, whom he had married on the evening of the battle in which her husband had been captured and executed. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Take this as a warning from men that are starving, and have starving wives and children to go home to when they have done this deed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
Men and women, husbands and wives, quarrel horribly, Shirley. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
King Henry VIII of England, he of the many wives, had a match-lock arquebus of this type dated 1537. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
Quite a number of the American representatives brought their wives. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Yes, I think myself it is an encouragement to crime if such men are to be taken care of and waited on by good wives, said Mrs. Tom Toller. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
We have actually pretended that the work of extracting a living from nature could be done most successfully by short-sighted money-makers encouraged by their money-spending wives. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
Your sympathy, Wives of England, for Madame Fosco! 威尔基·柯林斯.白衣女人.
They are called wives, though I believe the Koran only allows four genuine wives--the rest are concubines. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
I know several women, who have made most excellent wives after a slip or two, which I assure you madam often serves to fortify our virtue afterwards. 哈里特·威尔逊.哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
You suppose the wives of our guardians to have a fine easy time of it when they are having children. 柏拉图.理想国.
Such is the scheme, Glaucon, according to which the guardians of our State are to have their wives and families in common. 柏拉图.理想国.
I, for my part, object to the discussion of Human Nature, because that is the nature of rectors' wives. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
The first wave having been passed, we proceed to the second--community of wives and children. 柏拉图.理想国.
I bought wholesale and at a low price, and permitted the wives of the engineers and trainmen to have the benefit of the discount. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
Colonel Dent and Mr. Eshton argue on politics; their wives listen. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.简·爱.
The travellers were politely offered temporary wives. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Men of his age married wives of her age every day--and experience had shown those marriages to be often the happiest ones. 威尔基·柯林斯.白衣女人.
Spanish girls make wonderful wives. 欧内斯特·海明威.丧钟为谁而鸣.
There was a billiard-room at the Green Dragon, which some anxious mothers and wives regarded as the chief temptation in Middlemarch. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
I've often wondered to see men that could call their wives and children _their own_ fretting and worrying about anything else. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托.汤姆叔叔的小屋.
But for Harriet's sake, or rather for my own, and as there are no husbands and wives in the case _at_ _present_, I will break my resolution now. 简·奥斯汀.爱玛.