prospective wife
Example Sentences
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There was nothing fun, however, about watching a man's career and reputation unravel before a nation's eyes, especially in the steadfast presence of his father, his children and his prospective wife.
From Time Magazine Archive
Under these circumstances, we must refuse all personal responsibility, leaving the assumption of the responsibility to the prospective wife.
From Woman Her Sex and Love Life by William J. Robinson
I 've always heard that it's the proper thing to be polite to the sisters, cousins, and aunts of one's prospective wife.
From The Siege of the Seven Suitors by Meredith Nicholson
Quite often, at such transactions, it is all one whether the prospective wife be young or old, handsome or ugly, straight or bent, educated or ignorant, religious or frivolous, Christian or Jew.
From Woman under socialism by Daniel De Leon
Latterly as the prospective wife of a rich man she had assumed certain airs of her putative social position, and thought she could "manage" easily a common sort of person like this Snowden man.
From One Woman's Life by Robert Herrick
