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In the common course of events she is selected as the life-companion of some one of the other sex; because selected, she fixes her affections upon him, and hardly ventures to exercise upon him even her powers of observation.
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In the common course of events she is selected as the life-companion of some one of the other sex; because selected, she fixes her affections upon him, and hardly ventures to exercise upon him even her powers of observation.
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At first you were a king to a wonderful queen and life-companion.
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-- He will allow his life-companion a bank account, and will exact no itemized bill at the end of the month.
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He had vivid remembrances of Thornton Rush, and held the conviction, that however much he might have changed for the better, he could be still anything but an agreeable life-companion.
Hubert's Wife A Story for You Minnie Mary Lee
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Germain, the well-to-do, widowed laborer, in the course of a few miles 'ride, a journey undertaken in order to present himself and his addresses to the rich widow his father desires him to woo, discovers the real life-companion he wants in the poor girl-neighbor, whom he patronizingly escorts on her way to the farm where she is hired for service.
Famous Women: George Sand Bertha Thomas
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-- He will allow his life-companion a bank account, and will exact no itemized bill at the end of the month.
Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics B. G. Jefferis
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She was ousted from her low rocker and favorite window, deprived of her needle, which had in some sort become a life-companion, and made to do all sorts of drudgery; no settled work, but hurried from that, this, and the other; never knowing what was coming next -- the hardest kind of work -- slavery, indeed.
Hubert's Wife A Story for You Minnie Mary Lee
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Leonhard was the best friend he had and the most trustworthy man living, and that whoever she might be whom he had taken in holy matrimony for his life-companion, he was worthy of her.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 Various
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I was addressing Srimati Kashi Moni, the life-companion of Lahiri Mahasaya.
Autobiography of a Yogi Yogananda, Paramhansa, 1893-1952 1935
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