living as man and wife

Example Sentences

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If it was crushed at eight o'clock next morning, they are living as man and wife and you've caught the woman defrauding the system.

From The Guardian • Oct. 7, 2010

But in Shakespeare's time, legal marriage consisted only in declaration of enamoured couple's intentions of living as man and wife.

From Time Magazine Archive

All Saints' Day came and went, and still Philip and Bertrade were living as man and wife.

From Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) by Butler, Pierce