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Anne suffers not from an excess of husbandly devotion, the kind that results in gifts every Valentine's Day of outsized teddy bears, but from sternutation, an ostentatious word for sneezing.

(3) While offering men the possibility of transforming their personal and political lives, this new husbandly code of honor, however, continued to deny women sexual agency and subjectivity.

They put to rest the dominant image of absolute sexual celibacy and husbandly devotion to overseas wives.

Not surprisingly, he was not free of other medical problems that were not helping him perform his husbandly duties: fatigue, anxiety, musculoskeletal pains, and migraines, in addition to craving sweets, alcohol and chocolate.

Sounds like you're not taking care of your husbandly duties."

It turns out that Wakefield's husbandly manner and bearing, his pseudo-Byronic loose and rambling modes, are hardly worth dwelling upon.

(23) Hartog notes that a "man's identity and his honor were deeply tied to his marital status," which also served as a "foundation for republican political virtue": "loss of husbandly identity, loss of control over one's dependents, was a disaster, a source of overwhelming shame" (101).

was the wife of his commissary officer who apparently turned a blind eye on the affair--not very husbandly, but no doubt good career planning!); (d) General George Patton (Dinah Shore was also on his list!).

But, when on one of his trips home, he could not perform his husbandly duties; Simonia was beside herself.

Chancellery officials in the 1880s tended to enforce husbandly prerogatives.

It seems his husbandly duties to Basma leave him little time for other projects,

Nevertheless, Petruchio refuses to conform to the generic conventions of husbandly behavior, and instead of beating or raping his wife, he lectures her, performing his duty as a humanist educator.

Theophilus, in turn, increasingly complained to his wife, parishioners, and friends about Elizabeth's neglect of domestic duties (she preferred to write and read), her view of motherhood, her unwillingness to submit to husbandly authority, and especially her outlandish religious beliefs, which merged elements of radical spiritualism, perfectionism, and republican political theory.

When this transpires and the colony recognizes "colonial rule as a manly or husbandly or lordly prerogative," colonial power becomes, at its conception, understood as masculine power (5).