wedded state
Example Sentences
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He invariably insisted that plural marriage was the only natural and proper wedded state for man.
From Time Magazine Archive
She leaned back in her chair in luxurious ease: I had from the first become aware that the way she fingered her pearls was a sharp image of the wedded state.
From Embarrassments by James, Henry
With the seal of the holy Priesthood upon their wedded state, these people believe implicitly in the perpetuity of that relationship on the far side of the grave.
From The Story of "Mormonism" by Talmage, James Edward
There was something angelic about them both, even in this life,—a natural innocence and large beneficence and equanimity which, in the chance and contradiction of life, could rarely be found in wedded state.
From The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I by Stillman, William James
I find, are things not thought requisite to the happiness of a wedded state; and interest and convenience alone consulted.
