hymeneal

Example Sentences

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"You shall never—never—lead her to the hymeneal altar."

From A Book of Ghosts by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

The singing of a hymeneal song in connection with the wedding festivities was a very ancient custom among the Greeks.

From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by Baldwin, James

The marriage was nearly all that a marriage should be when a Lady Anna is led to the hymeneal altar.

From Lady Anna by Trollope, Anthony

Always the same quiet, prim woman, ready at proper times to do her duty; to arrange hassocks at a christening, or to point out the positions for the actors at a hymeneal sacrifice.

From A Little World by Fenn, George Manville

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