Why, it's the most beautiful thing in the world, like a garden of lilies oror something, a marriage ceremony is!

Turning to another but kindred question, I said "Your marriage contract, like our own laws, appears to favour the weaker sex more than strict theoretical equality would permit.

The third event, the marriage feast, is of later commemoration; and Maximus of Turin doubted if they all actually happened on the same day.

Also, if placed in a church, it will keep fixed in their places all the women present who have broken their marriage vow."

These latter will have "closed his works far too promptly to discover that far from gainsaying the Catholic instinct which prefers virginity to marriage" (not a strictly accurate statement) he makes virginity a condition of the idealized marriage-relation, and finds its realization in her who was at once matron and virgin.

Then straightway he came down from the loft and forthwith performed the marriage service; and so Allan and Ellen were duly wedded.

If young Doricles can get her, she shall bring him that he little dreams of:" meaning the remainder of Perdita's jewels; which, after he had bought herds of sheep with part of them, he had carefully hoarded up for her marriage-portion.

We'ain't learned in our communities yet not to take the marriage law as of God's own makin'.

"And all went as a marriage bell."

In April, 1819, Mrs. Leigh writes, after a last sigh over this event:"Sixty thousand pounds was secured by his (Byron's) marriage settlement, the interest of which he receives for life, and which ought to make him very comfortable."

" "Such questions will never be raised," said John Effingham, holding out his hand affectionately to his son; "you possess the marriage certificate given to your mother, and I avow myself to have been the person therein styled John Assheton.

XXVII "It was indeed a miserable hour 235 When, from the last hill-top, my sire surveyed, Peering above the trees, the steeple tower That on his marriage day sweet music made!

'Well,' thought Lancelot, 'we English have a characteristic way of proving the holiness of the marriage tie.

No purity of the marriage bed is stained,for none is supposed to have a being.

"You ought to see the way they're neck-breaking for the marriage-license bureaus since the draft.

Like, too, the hazel, it was associated with marriage rites.

Indeed, it would be no easy task to exhaust the list of flowers which have entered into the marriage customs of different countries, not to mention the many bridal emblems of which they have been made symbolical.

And how do we know that these angels, as they call them, if they be really persons, may not be united in pairs by some marriage bond, infinitely more perfect than any we can dream of on earth?' 'That is a very wild view, Mr. Smith, and not sanctioned by the Church,' said Argemone, severely.

Nor was the marriage state without its peculiar defenders.

Ye lily-wives so happy in the nest, Whose joy within the gates of duty springs, Blame not Love's poor, who, if they would be blest, Must steal what comes to you with marriage rings: Ye pity the poor lark whose scarce-tried wings Faint in the net, while still the morning air With brown free throats of all his brethren sings, And can it be ye will not pity her, Whose youth is as a lark all lost to singing there?

Till now, while still enjoying the liberty allowed to maidens in this respect, Eveena, by the arrangement of her veil, had always given to her costume a reserve wholly unexceptionable, even according to the rules enforced by the customs of Western Europe on young girls not yet presented in the marriage market of society.

The Cokesbury marriage manual.

Then the heavenly host gave a great shout, saying, "Blessed are they that are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb."

" Such is the form of marriage covenant employed in Mars.

marriage broker; matrimonial agency, matrimonial agent, matrimonial bureau, matchmaker; schatchen