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Examples
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They blamed their exile on a jealous cowife or a sickly child.
Spellbound Karen Palmer 2010
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They blamed their exile on a jealous cowife or a sickly child.
Spellbound Karen Palmer 2010
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They blamed their exile on a jealous cowife or a sickly child.
Spellbound Karen Palmer 2010
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My grandmother said she was lucky, and people called her spoiled, because after her older cowife died her husband didn’t take another wife for many years, until my grandmother had had nine children.
Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010
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Evelyn didn’t want another cowife, but he wanted more children.
Spellbound Karen Palmer 2010
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My grandmother said she was lucky, and people called her spoiled, because after her older cowife died her husband didn’t take another wife for many years, until my grandmother had had nine children.
Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010
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Evelyn didn’t want another cowife, but he wanted more children.
Spellbound Karen Palmer 2010
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She seemed to forget that she had voluntarily left her world because she felt betrayed by her husband and shamed by her cowife’s success in bearing sons.
Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010
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Evelyn didn’t want another cowife, but he wanted more children.
Spellbound Karen Palmer 2010
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My grandmother said she was lucky, and people called her spoiled, because after her older cowife died her husband didn’t take another wife for many years, until my grandmother had had nine children.
Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010
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