spousals

Example Sentences

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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

This can only be explained by the rules current at the time regarding spousals.

From Elizabethan Demonology by Spalding, Thomas Alfred

The fame of this extraordinary conjunction spread all over the county; and, on the day appointed for their spousals, the church was surrounded by an inconceivable multitude.

From The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by Smollett, T. (Tobias)

In one is seen the spousals of Santa Caterina, a piece so extremely infantile, that it would be difficult to find a similar example in Italy.

From The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. IV (of 6) from the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Lanzi, Luigi Antonio

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