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  • Your uncle would then question if we are really married, if I am a bigamist, if our children are—well, like your mother.†  (source)
  • He repudiated blood birthright and material security for his sake, for the sake of this man who was at least an intending bigamist even if not an out and out blackguard, and on whose dead body four years later Judith was to find the photograph of the other woman and the child.†  (source)
  • Then this so sweet maid is a polyandrist, and me, with my poor wife dead to me, but alive by Church's law, though no wits, all gone, even I, who am faithful husband to this now-no-wife, am bigamist.†  (source)
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  • Bigamy is illegal.†  (source)
  • — I meant, however, to be a bigamist; but fate has outmanoeuvred me, or Providence has checked me, — perhaps the last.†  (source)
  • This jail was a Noah's ark of the city's crime—there were murderers, "hold-up men" and burglars, embezzlers, counterfeiters and forgers, bigamists, "shoplifters,"†  (source)
  • For bigamy.†  (source)
  • In their gamesome but still serious way, one whispers to the other—"Jack, he's robbed a widow;" or, "Joe, do you mark him; he's a bigamist;" or, "Harry lad, I guess he's the adulterer that broke jail in old Gomorrah, or belike, one of the missing murderers from Sodom."†  (source)
  • With Tonia still alive, that would be bigamy.†  (source)
  • There is no knight-errant to come and seek a quarrel with me on account of the fair lady I detain a prisoner; but I have judges quite ready who will quickly dispose of a woman so shameless as to glide, a bigamist, into the bed of Lord de Winter, my brother.†  (source)
  • In my mind, I was not wedded to the island, nor would I be guilty of bigamy if I went home to Barbara each night.†  (source)
  • Sure you're not a bigamist, on the quiet, like?†  (source)
  • He often told her that he was going to tell a policeman and have Sissy arrested for bigamy.†  (source)
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