hymeneal

Example Sentences

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Just now his appearance—neat, shabby, pathetic, the superior workingman in his long-preserved, threadbare Sunday clothes—introduced disturbing notes into the swelling hymeneal chant to which Claude felt himself to be marching.

From The Side Of The Angels A Novel by King, Basil

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

Swinburne expresses his Hellenic longings by his hymeneal strains, Matthew Arnold by sweetness and light, Gilbert Murray by sweetness and pathos—and all through the divine right of Victorian expansion.

From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Addams, Jane

There lies the fatal weakness of all this frenzy over liberty and this hymeneal chanting of sky and ocean; it has no basis in the homely facts of the heart.

From Shelburne Essays, Third Series by More, Paul Elmer

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

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