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(Encyclopedia) wife: see husband and wife.Poem: The Wife
Poem 42 Poem 44 The Wife She rose to his requirement, dropped The playthings of her life To take the honorable work Of woman and of wife. If aught she missed in her new day Of amplitude…The Preacher's Wife
Director: Penny MarshallWriters: Nat Mauldin and Allan ScottDirector of Photography: Miroslav OndricekEditors:Stephen A. Rotter and George BowersMusic: Hans ZimmerProduction Designer: Bill…Brewer's: Wife
is from the verb to weave. (Saxon wefan, Danish vaevc, German weben, whence weib, a woman, one who works at the distaff.) Woman is called the…The Astronaut's Wife
Director/Writer:Rand RavichNew Line Cinema; R; 100 minutesRelease:8/99Cast:Johnny Depp, Charlize Theron, Joe Morton It's easy to see how this movie got made, since the synopsis is so…Brewer's: Ale-wife
The landlady of an alehouse or ale-stand. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894AlectoAle-stake A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W…The Fisherman and His Wife
The Fisherman and His Wife There was once a fisherman who lived with his wife in a pigsty, close by the seaside. The fisherman used to go out all day long a-fishing; and one day, as he sat on…Brewer's: Noah's Wife
[Noraida], according to legend, was unwilling to go into the ark, and the quarrel between the patriarch and his wife forms a very prominent feature of Noah's Flood, in the Chester and…Brewer's: Fish-wife
(A.) A woman who hawks fish about the streets. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Fish and FleshFish-day A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S…Brewer's: Pilate's Wife
who warned Pilate to have nothing to do with Jesus, is called Procla. (E. Johnson: The Rise of Christendom, p. 416.) Others call her Justitia, evidently an assumed name. Source:…