It would take a hell of a wife to beat no wife at all.
By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker.
He may be dead; or he may be teaching English.
At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned
The point is there ain't no point.
Fear of an enemy can often blind men to other hazards, not least the shape which they themselves make in the world.