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3 total sentences available.
If a man of many wives starts with as much love for his first wife as ordinary one-wifed men have for theirs, and goes on increasing his love with each additional wife, so that he can always say to the last that “he never really loved before;” how much love will he have when he gets to the tenth or the twentieth?
Source: wiktionary
It was whispered about on Tuesday morning that we were to have a Mormon woman as a speaker, and so it proved—Mrs. Emily S[ophia] Richards, delegate from the Women’s Association of that territory. “Her bonnet would strike terror to a many-wifed man,” was the whispered comment of some one in the audience; […]
Source: wiktionary
“You smile and mock me,” she said, “as if I meant naughtily.” “Do you not?” She said with sudden gaiety, “Thou wifed man—I’ll unsmock thee.”
Source: wiktionary
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