26 Metaphors for brides

They say it is like a poultry farm and that the bride is a kind of American goose girl: it will be a marriage between geology and the geese.

I doubt that I am lost, for my lord will find that his bride is not a maid.

Among the presents lately showered upon a dusky bride in a rural section of Virginia, was one that was a gift of an old woman with whom both bride and groom were great favorites.

"That bride is quite the prettiest piece of flesh and blood I've seen for many days.

But by degrees it had come to pass that Augustus had determined that his spendthrift brother should fall under his own power, and that the bride should be the reward.

The bride was, of course, the, cynosure of all eyes.

The Bride of Lammermoor is the greatest love-story ever written, and it was nothing short of desecration to make a libretto of it; but so far as the last act is concerned the opera certainly conveys the impression that the heroine is a raving lunatic.

He then rushes to the wars, where he greatly distinguishes himself, is created prince, and learns that his bride is not Catherine the quondam serf, but Catherine the duke's daughter.S. Knowles, Love (1840).

The friends whom he could reckon on as sure to welcome him and his bride were political acquaintances of mark, far above the Dunstone range, and Cecil could not but be gratified, even while Mrs. Duncombe and her friend declared that they were going to try to demoralize her by the seductions of the aristocracy.

The bride was comparatively an old womanat least twenty years the young man's senior, and a widow.

Now he came to the height of honour in his descendants, for in bronze armour he slew the Teleboai, and in his likeness the king of the immortals entered his hall, bearing the seed of fearless Herakles, whose bride in Olympos is Hebe, who by the side of her mother, the queen of marriage, walketh of all divinities most fair.

Her Indian children are attractive, we must admit, and her "Poma Bride," seated in the midst of the baskets that are her dower, is a picture which curiously attracts and holds the attention.

" Nanny received this permission with delight, and twenty times that morning she availed herself of the permission; and she continued to use the term until, two years later, she danced a miniature Eve on her knee, as she had done its mother before her, when matronly rank began silently to assert its rights, and our present bride became Mrs. Effingham.

They would see the bride and bridegroomthat was their right.

"But, caro mio, without offence, your bride is a Protestant, a Lutheran; not to mince matters, a heretic.

The bride was the daughter of a widow whose late husband was similarly situated, a partner in a rich mercantile and commission house, well known and respected.

Samuel Franklyn, the rich banker, was a man universally respected and admired, and the marriage, though Mabel was fifteen years his junior, won general applause; his bride was an heiress in her own right

Every night when her husband was asleep, the bride used to come out of the dog's skin and go out of the house; and when her husband found out this, he one night only pretended to go to sleep and lay watching her, and when she was about to leave the room he jumped up and caught hold of her and seizing the dog skin, threw it into the fire, where it was burnt to ashes, so his bride remained a woman, but she was of more than human beauty.

At this deplorable bit of bucolic wit and hearty taste, Tristram's face went stern as death; and he bit his lips, while his bride became the color of the red roses on the table in front of her.

Ha, you flattering boys!" "Well, each of the three bridegrooms has severally told us that his bride was a strong likeness of the mother, so she will have the advantage of three mirrors!" "Ay, and each married solely for her benefit.

The bride was a widow, and the second nuptials were deemed a fitting occasion for the Charivaris.

The Bonga Parganna's wife proposed that they should provide a bonga bride for the Prince, for it was certain that no human bride could be his match for beauty.

It is recorded that in his fifty-seventh year Endymion Westcote married (but the bride was not Lady Bateson), and that children were born to him.

But, volatile as he was impressible, the next week saw him the gayest of the gay in parties at Savannah, where his pretty little bride was quite the fashion.

The bride thereafter remains another whole year with her parents.

26 Metaphors for  brides