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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…

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 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…

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…

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: 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:…

Brewer's: Potiphar's Wife

According to the Koran her name was Zuleika, but some Arabian writers call her Rail. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894PotsPothooks A B C D E F G H I…

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…