spousals

Example Sentences

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No, no—no spousals for me: let John Cross and the bride be ready or not, there shall be a party wanting to that contract!

From Charlemont; Or, the Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky by Simms, William Gilmore

There reigned throughout, an order and purity, an orderly disposition, as if by way of making ready for some gracious spousals.

From Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2 by Pater, Walter

Let dull Octavia   Survive, to mourn him dead: My nobler fate   Shall knit our spousals with a tie, too strong   For Roman laws to break.

From All for Love Or, the World Well Lost A Tragedy by Dryden, John

What deed of outrage, Phoebus, hast thou done   This day, forgetful of that day whereon   To godlike Peleus' spousals gathered all   The Immortals?

From The Fall of Troy by Way, Arthur Sanders

I come with high spousals to grace thee,   "In me the great conqueror of conquerors see; "Enthroned in a hall fit for monarchs I'll place thee,   "And mine, thou'rt for ever, thou high-born Ladye!"

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael