helpmate

Indeed, watching Matt Bomer step up to stardom as Neal Caffrey, imprisoned-con-artist-turned-FBI-helpmate, is to be reminded of the symbiotic relationship that exists between TV stars and the shows that make them so.

USA's 'White Collar': You'll want to catch this thief 2009

Between the great world and solitude, he needs the intermediate filling-up which the life domestic alone supplies: a wife to realize the sweet word helpmate; children, with whose future he could knit his own toils and his ancestral remembrances.

What Will He Do with It? — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Between the great world and solitude, he needs the intermediate filling - up which the life domestic alone supplies: a wife to realize the sweet word helpmate; children, with whose future he could knit his own toils and his ancestral remembrances.

What Will He Do with It? — Volume 06 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

At that hour it was so rare an event in the life of Mr. Mivers to be found in the drawing-room, and that he should have an acquaintance unknown to his helpmate was a circumstance so much rarer still, that Mr.. Mivers may well be forgiven for keeping St. John standing at the door till she had recovered her amaze.

Lucretia — Volume 05 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

At that hour it was so rare an event in the life of Mr. Mivers to be found in the drawing-room, and that he should have an acquaintance unknown to his helpmate was a circumstance so much rarer still, that Mr.. Mivers may well be forgiven for keeping St. John standing at the door till she had recovered her amaze.

Lucretia — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

And I'm ower failed to tak a helpmate, though Wylie Mactrickit the writer was very pressing, and spak very civilly; but I 'm ower auld a cat to draw that strae before me.

Old Mortality, Complete Walter Scott 1801

And I'm ower failed to tak a helpmate, though Wylie Mactrickit the writer was very pressing, and spak very civilly; but I 'm ower auld a cat to draw that strae before me.

Old Mortality, Volume 2. Walter Scott 1801

I knew this wasn't the case -- but if women believed that marriage meant the gift of a spouse who made a home for them, a "helpmate" who nurtured them, who made a social life possible, a mother who took care of their children, and a nurseful listener who was charming in uncharming situations -- if that was the case, then women propose on bended knee faster than you can say "diary-of-a-mad-housewife."

Susie Bright: Are You a Marryin' Fool? 2008

Buzz about your managerial style, your thirst for power, your "helpmate" President Clinton, who has already been quoted as saying he feels he owes it to you to do everything he can to win you this election.

Stacy Parker Aab: Hillary Clinton as Mob Boss, Possibly on Verge of... 2008

Burke also said Winburn's statements on women in the same book - that a woman "must be taught what her boundaries are and how to be a 'helpmate' to her husband" - were "extremist."

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