living as man and wife

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.

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

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

About the eighth year of their living as man and wife, Malaekahana conceived and bore a daughter, who was so beautiful to look upon, the mother thought that Kahauokapaka would disregard his vow; this child he would save.

There's no future for him, or for her, except to go on living as man and wife—without the secretary.