spousals

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This marks the Churl: when spousals crown    His selfish hope, he finds the grace, Which sweet love has for ev'n the clown,    Was not in the woman, but the chace.

From Angel in the House by Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton

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

He maketh revels and feasts and spousals, and giveth many good gifts to friends and guests, and comforteth and gladdeth his guests with songs and pipes and other minstrelsy of music.

From Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus by Steele, Robert

Conceive, Fred, what the fair young creature must have felt at the bare idea of such shocking spousals!

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 by Various

Seuenthly, he despightfully abaseth our solemnizings of marriages, spousals, birth-dayes, and our customes at burials.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 by Hakluyt, Richard