A woman's partner in marriage

Usage examples of husband.

They all shuffle, all these strange lonely children of God, these mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, husbands and wives whose noisy aberrations are safely muffled now by drugs.

So, though Rosemary West may have physically abused him, neither she nor her husband were anxious to relinquish Steven McAvoy once he was in her hands.

Indeed, it is more than likely that the first person to be suspended from the beams in the cellar of 25 Cromwell Street and sexually abused was Rosemary West herself, and that she and her husband then decided to subject other people to the experience.

What would happen if she finally confessed to him that Bill had been an abusive husband?

Out of politeness the countess looked at her husband before accepting the invitation, but he cried out, without ceremony, that he was ready to go if I took the whole family.

She ached for the return of her husband, for the love she had apparently lost.

Where is the woman who will patiently acquiesce in the reserve of her husband who shares his confidence with another?

Towards the end of the year 1728 my mother returned to Venice with her husband, and as she had become an actress she continued her artistic life.

She had made it easy for Addis to get Rhys alone because she wanted men she could trust beside her husband.

Her husband looked at her as if surprised to notice that someone besides Pierre and himself was in the room, and addressed her in a tone of frigid politeness.

The husband married again, and on his return to Massachusetts, his ex-wife petitioned the Massachusetts court to adjudge him in contempt for failing to make payments for her separate support under the earlier Massachusetts decree.

I gave in, saying that I could not refuse anything to the adorable woman who had honoured me with the name of husband.

I always looked upon her as your daughter, and my husband knew it, but far from being angry, he used to adore her.

Solitude had killed every power in her save vanity, and the form her vanity took was peculiarly irritating to her husband, and in a lesser degree to her daughter, for neither the Elder nor Loo would have founded self-esteem on adventitious advantages of upbringing.

Stirpium adversaria nova, but when I wish to consult it I am obliged to wait until my husband or my chaplain or my cousin Richard has time to translate for me.