Rajban is the childless wife of a dead man.
The captain brought them to his childless wife.
Yes, I'm what you call me, the childless wife of your father, but you're the child I never had.
Never forget that, childless wife of my father.
Monogamy was the rule, and a childless wife might give her husband a maid to bear him children, who were then reckoned hers.
All but Zdorab, of course, who was as quiet and unprepossessing as ever, with his wife still childless; the two seemed almost to disappear sometimes.
Calhoun's childless wife had been dead five years.
Their children were handed over to childless wives of military officers.
They represented a population of 917,000 childless wives of that age group in the United States.
In Mrs. Allan he found all the affection a childless wife could bestow.