hymeneal
Example Sentences
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This contribution of Swinburne's,—the hymeneal touch,—and Murray's discovery that the word God could be introduced with effect anywhere, went like wildfire over England.
From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Jane Addams
Just now his appearance—neat, shabby, pathetic, the superior workingman in his long-preserved, threadbare Sunday clothes—introduced disturbing notes into the swelling hymeneal chant to which Claude felt himself to be marching.
From The Side Of The Angels A Novel by Basil King
A splendid train of eunuchs and officers issued, in hymeneal pomp, from the gates of the palace, bearing aloft the diadem, the robes and the inestimable ornaments of the future empress.
From Women of Early Christianity by Alfred Brittain
What would the world say when it should have become known that he intended to lead Lady Frances to the "hymeneal altar?"
From Marion Fay by Anthony Trollope
There are, we take it, about three ways which lead to what the provincial reporter delights to term “the hymeneal altar.”
From Dorrien of Cranston by Bertram Mitford
