Gentle touch Quote by A. H. Septimius

“... she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex…

— George Eliot

“For a moment, after years of scamping, she felt the dread power of wifehood; they were locked in each other’s grasp till the end—the…

— Christina Stead

“And she began the oft-told tale of a lady of imperial descent who could find no husband in the narrow circle where her pride…

— E.M. Forster

“He remembered the gracefulness with which she moved in battle—like liquid flesh. There was no one quite like his wife, and he never felt…

— Nadia Scrieva

“She took no pleasure in using her skills to break his weapon, but deep down, there was a cold satisfaction, as if all her…

— Peter V. Brett

“What the mud had been doing with itself, or where it came from, who could say? But it seemed to collect in a moment,…

— Charles Dickens

“She was close in her husband's arms; she clung to him; whatever of strangeness and slowness and insularity she might find in him, none…

— Sinclair Lewis

“Bit it was her scent that just about killed him. Clean skin. Woman. And something more—something that made him feel like dispensing with five…

— Pamela Clare

“The people who had once dwelled within these lands had not met easy or pleasant ends. She could feel their pain even now, whispering…

— Sarah J. Maas

“The wife, where danger or dishonor lurks, safest and seemliest by her husband stays, who guards her, or with her the worst endures.”

— John Milton

“In the Old Language, she hissed, "If any harm shall befall him, I will come after you, and find where you sleep. I do…

— J.R. Ward

“His wife had been wild about him at first; she had treated him with an amorous servility that had turned him against her all…

— Gustave Flaubert