holy wedlock
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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
Ever since the war, thousands of Austrian couples have been living together without benefit of holy wedlock.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Bishop began with a short litany which asked God's blessing on the ceremony which was to join together two of His children in the bonds of holy wedlock.
From The Woman Thou Gavest Me Being the Story of Mary O'Neill by Sir Hall Caine
New Year’s Day our young friends, Miss Hattie Cochran and Mr. Elias King, without any ceremony at all were united in the bonds of holy wedlock.
From The So-called Human Race by Bert Leston Taylor
