For the sake of every citizen, and most of all for the sake of the children, it should "solemnize" marriage, and should do so on the understandingclearly expressedthat those who come to be married intend to be faithful to each other "as long as they both shall live.

When it pleassth the great Can to solemnize a feast, he hath about him 14000.

But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal luster, not omitting ceremonies of bravery, in the infamy of his nature.

This young prince, who is said to have possessed great merit, had paid his addresses to Elfrida, the daughter of Offa, and was invited with all his retinue to Hereford, in order to solemnize the nuptials.

When at last she regained her health, the loss of her mother and the crosses of every-day life served still further to solemnize her mind, and to turn her aspirations heavenwards.

In a poor cottage inned, a virgin maid A weakling did him bear, who all upbears; There is he poorly swaddled, in manger laid, To whom too narrow swaddlings are our spheres: Run, shepherds, run, and solemnize his birth.

In some trade associations all the members were bound to solemnize the day of the decease of a brother, to assist at his funeral, and to follow him to the grave.

One day as he was solemnizing a festival in the county of Gloucester, he remarked, that Leolf, a notorious robber, whom he had sentenced to banishment, had yet the boldness to enter the hall where he himself dined, and to sit at table with his attendants.

The eight days during which is solemnized the principal fête of the Virgin, August 15-22.

In the gradual desuetude of old observances, this custom of solemnizing our proper birth-day hath nearly passed away, or is left to children, who reflect nothing at all about the matter, nor understand any thing in it beyond cake and orange.

And now set forwards: Lords, let us be gone To solemnize two mariages in one.

After the marriage has been solemnized the officiating minister or magistrate shall, on request, give each of the parties a certificate thereof.

There, after the whirling words that seemed to fly away from her thoughts and refuse to serve them, she made a last effort to solemnize the moment that seemed so crazy, and pressed the letter she had written upon him.

The mighty Sultan, to do you honour, has set your Daughter and her Lover free, ransomless;and this day gives 'em liberty to solemnize the Nuptials in the Court;but Christian Ceremonies must be private; but you're to be admitted, and I'll conduct you to 'em.

Fabius, discarding all concern about any other business, solemnized the obsequies of his colleague in the most honourable manner, passing on him the high encomiums which he had justly merited.

The various religious denominations throughout the country are invited to meet in their respective places of worship at that hour for the purpose of solemnizing the occasion with appropriate ceremonies.

so may the younkers of this generation eye you, pacing your stately terrace, with the same superstitious veneration, with which the child Elia gazed on the Old Worthies that solemnized the parade before ye!

And upon learning that the captain would remain aboard until afternoon, he set himself to the confection of one of his masterly rice-dishes in order to solemnize the return of peace.

I trust that which silenced and solemnized my spirit was something better than myself.

Calumet is the pipe of peace, used by North American Indians when solemnizing treaties etc.

They are looked upon as man and wife, though they do not live together; and they rarely fail to solemnize their union when they have accumulated sufficient property to procure the requisite articles for housekeeping.

Something hushed and solemnized the very air.

he cried, "you men of Kincaid's Batteryand you, sir,and you,"nodding right and left to Mandeville and the detective,"on this our solemn pledge to supply as soon as ever we can all form of law and social usage here omitted which can more fully solemnize this uniondo now" Up went the detective's hand

In the early days, the Christians were accustomed to solemnize the anniversary of a martyr's death for Christ, at the place of martyrdom.

he exclaims, gazing into his mistress's eyes: I'll solemnize their beauty in a draught Pressed from the summer of an hundred vines.