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A bit later I sat on the bed, fully dressed, feeling dazed and belligerent, but thanks to a glass of port supplied by the good-wife, at least functional.

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And even in the cottars 'houses the good-wife would have a meal on such

The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars

"Drink up," said he, "and drown care if you're the man my good-wife thought you, for faith there's a little fellow from over the loch making himself very snug in the lady's company in your absence."

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

"I said the good-wife was gleg; I'm just as gleg myself."

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

The good-wife with a "humph" and a sigh forsook the battle,

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Quhen the good-wife is fra hame, the keys are tint.

Collection of Scotch Proverbs Pappity Stampoy

The good-wife in North Wales, when the cock comes to the door-sill and there crows many times in succession, tells her children that "Some one is coming to visit us, I wonder who it is."

Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales Elias Owen

The good-wife scorned the idea of taking money for a smooth stone, and told him laughingly that he was welcome to it.

Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson

But, although their bodies were in durance vile, their eyes could roam covetously to a showy trinket on the broad bosom of some buxom good-wife, or a gewgaw that hung from the neck of a red-cheeked lass.

Under the Rose Frederic Stewart Isham

The good-wife as she bustled with pot and tray and sieve;

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