hymeneal

Example Sentences

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She listened to the hymeneal god, who, attended by nymphs, stepped forward and, to the accompaniment of sweet music, sang a wedding-song specially composed for the occasion.

From Henrietta Maria by Haynes, Henrietta

Freddy has said many a charming thing about the pear-blossom; about nature's awakening; about the hymeneal birds—things that, as Prue says, are almost poetry just as he speaks them, without any alteration.

From Doctor Cupid by Broughton, Rhoda

Do you not recollect that eighteen years have run their circuit since we pledged our mutual faith to each other, and the hymeneal torch was lighted at the altar of Love?

From Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Adams, Abigail

They completed their walk to the house of the hymeneal merrymaking in a bitter silence, both very miserable.

From True and Other Stories by Lathrop, George Parsons

Suddenly the willows sparkled with diamonds, the grey river became a sheet of silver, the sedge warbler fluted his hymeneal note, and other warblers joined in the chorus.

From The Soul of Susan Yellam by Vachell, Horace Annesley