take in marriage
Example Sentences
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Yet you shall have a marriage gift to this girl, whom I myself will take in marriage: you shall give a hundred head of cattle.
From Nada the Lily by Haggard, Henry Rider
She answered: "I declare that I take in marriage His Majesty the Emperor and King, Napoleon, here present."
From The Happy Days of the Empress Marie Louise by Imbert de Saint-Amand, Arthur Léon, baron
The objection that בעל, in the signification "to take in marriage" is construed with the Accusative only, is of no weight.
From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 by Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm
Napoleon replied: "I declare that I take in marriage Her Imperial and Royal Highness Marie Louise, Archduchess of Austria, here present."
From The Happy Days of the Empress Marie Louise by Imbert de Saint-Amand, Arthur Léon, baron
They would not take in marriage both a mother and her daughter, and the most shameful of acts in their view was to marry two sisters.
From The Secret of Divine Civilization by `Abdu'l-Bahá
