holy wedlock
Example Sentences
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Ever since the war, thousands of Austrian couples have been living together without benefit of holy wedlock.
From Time Magazine Archive
While he was in jail she entered into holy wedlock with a rumshop keeper from Jamaica and sailed away with her husband.
From Time Magazine Archive
Written, produced and directed by Norman Panama and Melvin Frank, Facts of Life inquires with wicked glee into the nature of the tie that binds men and women in holy wedlock.
From Time Magazine Archive
Six were married in the valley, Binding thus in holy wedlock Families of the early settlers And the Narragansett children From the cabin in the forest, Home of Molly and James Chaugham.
From Legend of Barkhamsted Light House A Tale from the Litchfield Hills of Connecticut by Mills, Lewis Sprague
That nothing would give him greater delight than to see his beloved Ellen joined with so accomplished and amiable a young gentleman in the bonds of holy wedlock, provided his father's assent was previously obtained.
From The Shepherd's Calendar Volume I (of II) by Hogg, James
