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
While she has nothing to do in choosing for herself a husband, she is bound in infancy, through holy wedlock, to a child like herself.
From India, Its Life and Thought by Jones, John P. (John Peter)
At Salem Meeting-House, one summer day, Two lovers, Abby Purkis and John Cole, Were joined in holy wedlock.
From Mathieu Ropars: et cetera by Young, William
