huswife

• “I was sure it could not be far off; but I had put my huswife upon it, you see, without being aware, and so it was quite hid, but I had it in my hand so very lately that I was almost sure it must be on the table.”

  Emma

• “Shee's any good man's better second selfe, the very mirror of true constant modesty, the carefull huswife of frugalitie, and dearest obiect of man's heart's felicitie.”

  Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters

• “_I must needs say, that my wife is a shrewe, but such a huswife as I know but a fewe.”

  The Arte of English Poesie

• “Come, lay aside your stitchery; I must have you play the idle huswife with me this afternoon.”

  Act I. Scene III. Coriolanus

• “In a place to themselves were other treasures, a daguerreotype of his mother, a capacious huswife that Sairy had made and stocked for him, the little box of paper "to write home on" that had been Tom's present, various trifles that the three had agreed might come in handy.”

  The Long Roll

• “In a cottage garden the dog, high on his haunches at the length of his chain, cocked his ears towards the huswife in the wash-house, hoping against hope for a miracle.”

  In a Green Shade A Country Commentary

• “She was dressed in a warm plaiden gown and a close mob cap, with huge keys and huswife balancing each other at either pocket-hole, and her cracked voice was very sweet as she reiterated”

  Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes

• “I therefore answered with all humility, that I could not force my child, and that I loved to have her about me, seeing that my dear huswife had departed this life during the heavy pestilence, and I had no child but only her.”

  Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 2

• “He talked a vast deal about his good place, and how he was in search of a good huswife, whence we soon guessed what quarter the wind blew from.”

  Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 2

• “_Ergo_, my daughter told him that if he was seeking for a huswife she wondered that he lost his time in riding to Coserow to no purpose, for that she knew of no huswife for him there, which vexed him so sore that he never came again.”

  Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 2

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