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a wife who has married a man with whom she has been living for some time (especially if she is pregnant at the time)
he made an honest woman of her
How To Use honest woman In A Sentence
- Anyway, the BIG story here is that one honest woman was able to do what pack of university trustees and fellows and so on couldn't or wouldn't do: stop ND's pell-mell pursuit of cozy relations with the politically correct even when it means honoring abortionism's standard bearer. Former Laetare Medalist to deliver address at Notre Dame's commencement
- Between sogers and Saxons, and caterans and cattle-lifters, and hership and bluidshed, an honest woman wad live quieter in hell than on the Hieland line. '' Rob Roy
- Anyway, the BIG story here is that one honest woman was able to do what pack of university trustees and fellows and so on couldn't or wouldn't do: stop ND's pell-mell pursuit of cozy relations with the politically correct even when it means honoring abortionism's standard bearer. Former Laetare Medalist to deliver address at Notre Dame's commencement
- And Miss Lucy Ashton, that grudged when an honest woman came near her — a taid may sit on her coffin that day, and she can never scunner when he croaks. The Bride of Lammermoor
- Cynthia is a BEAUTIFUL woman, a truthful, honest woman.
- I guess that really does mean the end of the satin pyjama hopes I have been harbouring for a few years now as you will be an honest woman. Question
- And to hold up the Virgin Mary as the only example of a true, honest woman and to show this as the ideal can not be right.
- “And I promise you,” said the laundress, “my young master will stick nothing to call an honest woman slut and quean, if there be but a speck of soot upon his band-collar.” The Abbot
- In all the dispute on what is called quietism, there has been nothing good but the old tale revived of the honest woman who brought a torch to burn paradise, and a cruse of water to extinguish the fire of hell, that God should no longer be served either through hope or fear. A Philosophical Dictionary
- I have been called a coquette, my prince; it is time to bind myself in marriage bonds, and show the world that love can make an honest woman of me. Frederick the Great and His Family
