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
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 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
The heifer is united in holy wedlock to the bullock, after formal chanting of mantrams, by the tying of the tāli and toe-rings to the neck.
From Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Thurston, Edgar
I understood not the meaning of the vision till your messenger came; and I have now hastened hither, not to join but to part those hands, which may not be united in holy wedlock.
From Famous Stories Every Child Should Know by Mabie, Hamilton Wright
