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

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

Down from God all new descending Thee our joyful eyes behold, Like a bride adorned for spousals, Decked with radiant wealth untold; All thy streets and walls are fashioned, All are bright with purest gold!

From Edwy the Fair or the First Chronicle of Aescendune by Crake, A. D. (Augustine David)

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