"Wive" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... which is absurd: every ancient law-giver framed his code to increase the true wealth of the people—population—and severely punished all processes, like onanism, which impeded it. The Persians utilise the hatred of women for such misuse when they would force a wive to demand a divorce and thus forfeit her claim to Mahr (dowry); they convert them into catamites till, after a month or so, they lose all ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 3 • Richard F. Burton
... sound; as in fancy, muffin; except in of, which, when uncompounded, is pronounced ov. A wive's portion, a calve's head, are improper. They should ...
— English Grammar in Familiar Lectures • Samuel Kirkham |
