“My dear Mr. Bennet,” replied his wife, “how can you be so tiresome!
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“Do you not want to know who has taken it?” cried his wife impatiently.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
He had always intended to visit him, though to the last always assuring his wife that he should not go; and till the evening after the visit was paid she had no knowledge of it.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Mr. Bennet was so odd a mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humour, reserve, and caprice, that the experience of three-and-twenty years had been insufficient to make his wife understand his character.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
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Merriam-Webster
— dialect : WOMAN
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Macmillan
— a female partner in a marriage
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