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1  But my wife will be furious with me.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
2  At that moment his wife sailed into the room.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II
3  Listen to what Father Cyril's wife had to tell me.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IX
4  "Allow me to present to you my wife," continued Manilov.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II
5  "This is my wife, Theodulia Ivanovna," said Sobakevitch.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
6  At the same time, Manilov and his wife were quite satisfied with each other.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II
7  My wife is expecting me at home, and I must go and tell her all about the fair.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
8  At length, with these perfectings, the affair reached the ears of the Governor's wife herself.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IX
9  In fact, he remembered those claims only on hearing the Governor's wife herself addressing him.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII
10  Permissibly we may suppose that his wife succeeded in gleaning from him few details of the fair.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
11  The Governor's wife added a word or two, and then carried off her daughter to speak to some of the other guests.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII
12  My late wife made the stuff," went on the old man, "but that rascal of a housekeeper went and threw away a lot of it, and never even replaced the stopper.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI
13  Indeed, his rudeness soon reached the pitch of his walking away altogether, in order that he might go and reconnoitre wither the Governor's wife and daughter had retreated.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
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14  Lastly, he received from the company a pressing, as well as an unanimous, invitation to extend his stay in town for at least another fortnight, and, in the meanwhile, to allow a wife to be found for him.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VII
15  You were apprenticed to a German, who fed you and your fellows at a common table, thrashed you with a strap, kept you indoors whenever you had made a mistake, and spoke of you in uncomplimentary terms to his wife and friends.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
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16  Nor had his marriage in any way changed him, and the less so since his wife had soon departed to another world, and left behind her two children, whom he did not want, and who were therefore placed in the charge of a good-looking nursemaid.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
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17  Having done their business with the Governor's wife, the ladies' party descended upon the male section, with a view to influencing it to their own side by asserting that the dead souls were an invention used solely for the purpose of diverting suspicion and successfully affecting the abduction.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IX
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