Word: wife
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Professor. Yes, me see. You say in paper, me no washee-washee - me teachee. Melican's wife sendee clothes to washee. Me heap mad - say damme...
...What a shiftless fellow the owner of this room must be!' said one fair visitor. 'He ought to have a wife to look after...
FIRST GIRL. Wife of Heracles, and first cousin of Sir Joseph Porter...
...Then a wife in whose exquisite nature...
...will of the Mollahs of the place that I should do next. "Oh!" said he, (and may the Prophet singe his beard!)* "you must go to Or-phiz; every one goes to Or-phiz. Knock at the door, and ask the reverend Mollah with the white beard for his wife, the moon-faced Messisahriz." By the word wife these dogs mean the principal lady of the harem. Salaaming and thanking him for his information, I entered a large white building in front of us. I knocked some eighteen times, and, getting no answer, but, hearing the tones of a female...