hymeneal

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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

Since that time their happiness has never had the least interruption; except from the hymeneal expedition of my friend Henry.

From The Mysterious Wanderer, Vol. III A Novel in Three Volumes by Reeve, Sophia

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

In 1782 he led the amiable and accomplished Miss Elliott to the hymeneal altar and located at the ancestral seat of his wife at Sandy Hill in South Carolina.

From Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by Judson, L. Carroll

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