I was a proper wife, ever ready with a hot bath and a soothing word for my weary provider.

I intend to be a proper wife, and know my proper place.

Ms. Hurt is especially good as the socially proper, enigmatic wife.

She wasn't a proper wife to him any more.

To begin one, he needed the proper wife.

Very demurely, the way a proper wife accepts her husband's correction.

I want to be a proper wife of the Minister's aide.

She didn't stick by her husband like a proper wife, did she?

She says that a milkmaid would not be a proper wife for a gentleman such as he.

They like to have a cool and proper wife.