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

The mistake the prospective wife makes is in obstinately closing her eyes to the fact that married life has any trials which are not far outbalanced by its pleasures.

From The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) by Harland, Marion

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 Herrick, Robert

He would never give Marjorie up as his prospective wife until he heard from her own lips that she did not love him.

From Marjorie Dean, College Senior by Lester, Pauline

Yet all the same there is an excellent reason why one should shun beauty in a prospective wife, at anyrate obvious beauty—the kind of beauty people talk about, and which gets into the photographers' windows.

From Certain Personal Matters by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)