1
On the side of the former was maternal love; on the side of the latter, wifely devotion.
2
Her wifely devotion had won the Emperor's affection, and her unfailing gentleness had attracted all his friends.
3
I'm sure I wish you joy with the selfish wretch and with your new-fangled ideas of wifely devotion.
4
Such wifely devotion seemed praiseworthy enough.
5
Talk about your wifely devotion, what!
6
He tried to quell the unreasonable inclination to find her lacking in wifely devotion because she had been out.
7
She pictures herself as fulfilling exquisite ideals of wifely devotion, "all in all" to him, and he to her.
8
Eventually she has to abandon him, but demonstrates her wifely devotion by going back to nurse him through his last illness.
9
When would the days begin of that active wifely devotion which was to strengthen her husband's life and exalt her own?
10
He probably divined how eager you were to help me, and he was glad to yield to the agreeable spell of your wifely devotion.
11
Mrs. Donner was urged to go with the relief party, but resolutely determined to heed the promptings of wifely devotion and remain by her husband.
12
She has a misgiving that he does not mean to rate Jasper Wilmarth very highly, and her wifely devotion resents it, for she is devoted.
13
"Fidelio" is a tale of wifely devotion, and Beethoven bent all his energies to a glorification of his heroine's love and fidelity.
