(1) Of late she seems to be settling in well as a competent full-time royal wife and new mother.

(2) I was a mother, I had been a wife , but my husband was gone and most of my children had left home.

(3) Peter left Ireland as a young man and met his beloved beautiful wife Mona of County Wicklow.

(4) He's taken a second wife

(5) Three years ago he divorced his second wife Anthea, with whom he has two small children.

(6) A faculty wife

(7) He had not yet wed my mother, and his first wife had died without issue.

(8) He met his wife at college

(9) Meanwhile, Uncle Phil divorces his loving wife of many years and marries Diane.

(10) Dad was predeceased by his beloved wife Tena, six brothers and four sisters.

(11) Anna is his former wife

(12) His wife of 50 years

(13) His estranged wife was recently killed in a car crash, leaving him numb and vulnerable.

(14) We have outlived all our brothers and sisters and their wives and husbands.

(15) People don't know when their husbands and sons and wives and sisters are coming home.

(16) In the crowd there were husbands and wives , fathers and sons.

(17) I have been rendered wifeless by the Pandavs and therefore I want Panchali, the wife of the Pandavs.

(18) Do most American husbands and wives honor the principle of sexual exclusivity in practice?

(19) I never imagined I would find myself in this wifely role, but here I am, with my endless lists and diary and calendar, keeping on top of everyone's activities - Mum to the whole family.

(20) She is a comic pointilliste, and her precise inflections of wifeliness dot the brain like a quiver of hatpins.