husbandhood

Sutherland's telling, Scott became tidier, calmer, and less ornery, a model for American husbandhood.

Glenn Hurowitz: Learning Politics from the Animal Kingdom 2008

Any homosexual man who can persuade a woman to take him as her husband can avail himself of all the rights of husbandhood under the law.

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Any homosexual man who can persuade a woman to take him as her husband can avail himself of all the rights of husbandhood under the law.

Orson Scott Card’s Rhetorical Looney Toons 2006

But there always has been and always will be unhappy marriages until men learn what husbandhood means; how to care for that tenderly matured, delicately constituted being, that he takes into his care and keeping.

Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage B.G. Jefferis

But there always has been and always will be unhappy marriages until men learn what husbandhood means; how to care for that tenderly matured, delicately constituted being, that he takes into his care and keeping.

Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics B. G. Jefferis

She could see in him the eternal handy-man of her delight, made for husbandhood and as clearly without nonsense as any working wife could have wished.

Nocturne Frank Swinnerton 1933

But, somehow, the men seemed soon to exhaust the mystery and fascination of fatherhood just as they had exhausted the mystery and fascination of husbandhood.

Angel Island Inez Haynes Gillmore 1921

"It has been a puzzle to me why you, Uncle Dick, who seem to me fitted above all men I have ever known for love and husbandhood and fatherhood, should have elected to live your life alone."

Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 1908

All that mattered was himself and Hazel; his passion, Hazel's freedom; his longing for husbandhood and fatherhood, her elvish incapacity for wifehood and motherhood.

Gone to Earth Mary Gladys Meredith Webb 1904

I am inclined now and then to think that there is, after all, something mystic in the status of husbandhood, some supernatural endowment that in the wife's eyes attaches to her own man, however little she values him, at however low a rate she sets his natural qualities.

The King's Mirror Anthony Hope 1898