Earthly brides spend a vast deal of time and thought over their trousseau, so I think Christ's bride should walk among men with a sweet aloofness while the spiritual garments are being fashioned in which she is to dwell with him.

Secret raids, ravished brides, valiant rescues, the gayest intriguesthese are the diverse matters of this many-colored book.

What must be the state of Martial brides in general, when the signature of the contract immediately places them at the disposal of an utter stranger, it was beyond the power of my imagination to conceive, if their feelings were at all to be measured by Eveena's under conditions sufficiently trying, but certainly far better than theirs.

The sins of Standard Oil were forgotten in the menace of such a national catastrophe; mothers' meetings were held; the excitement became stupendous; a hundred thousand brides invaded the Attorney-General's office, but all he could think of to say was: "Thirty centuries look down upon you!" These vague sentiments perplexed the country.

They two, forth pacing to the rivers side, 175 Receiv'd those two faire brides, their loves delight; Which, at th'appointed tyde, Each one did make his bryde Against their brydale day, which is not long: 179 Sweet Themmes!

Gay bachelors, a hopeful crew, And brides so unaffected! WEATHERCOCK (toward the other side) Unless indeed the yawning ground Should open to receive them, From this vile crew, with sudden bound, To Hell

They are consecrated to certain gods soon after their birth; they are the brides of the impure and obscene deities of the Hindu pantheon, and are attached to their temples, receiving their support from the collections of the priests or the permanent endowments, often living under the temple roof and almost always within the sacred premises.

Aunts and uncles and cousins, a starchy and stiff array, Lovers and brides, then blooming,now so wrinkled and gray: Out through the misty glasses they gaze at me, sitting here Opening the quaint old cases with a smile that is half a tear.

Cookbook for brides.

MCNEILE, H. C. The brides of Mertonbridge Hall.

The brides of Mertonbridge Hall. SEE McNeile, H. C. Bulldog Drummond returns.

Capture and sale of brides.

CAPTURE AND SALE OF BRIDES In the Homeric poems we read much about young women who were captured and forced to become the concubines of the men who had slain their fathers, brothers, and husbands.

Other brides are referred to as [Greek: alphesiboiai], wooed with rich presents, literally "bringing in oxen."

Among other ancient nationsAssyrians, Hebrews, Babylonians, Chaldeans, etc., brides had to be bought with property or its equivalent in service (as in the case of Jacob and Rachel).

Hundreds of millions of bartered brides have borne their fate more meekly.

It is needless to add that what has been said here applies a fortiori to captured brides.

As for the list of peoples among whom brides were soldusually to the highest bidder and without reference to feminine choicethat would be much larger still.

At three o'clock in the morning, the yellow meadow goats-beard opens; and brides awake, and the stable-boy begins to rattle and feed the horses beneath the lodger.

Their eldest son, born in 1803, was named Thomas Lovell, after his father and grandfather, and grew up to be the author of The Brides' Tragedy and Death's Jest Book.

Many passages in The Brides' Tragedy seem only to be waiting for the breath of inspiration which will bring them into life; and indeed, here and there, the breath has come, the warm, the true, the vital breath of Apollo.

The Brides' Tragedy was well received by critics; and a laudatory notice of Beddoes in the Edinburgh, written by Bryan Waller Procterbetter known then than now under his pseudonym of Barry Cornwallled to a lasting friendship between the two poets.

The spade-work of The Brides' Tragedy had been accomplished; the seed had been sown; and now the harvest was beginning.

They contain reprints of The Brides' Tragedy and Death's Jest Book, together with two unfinished tragedies, and a great number of dramatic fragments and lyrics; and the poems are preceded by Kelsall's memoir of his friend.

Beddoes' power of creating scenes of intense dramatic force, which had already begun to show itself in The Brides' Tragedy, reached its full development in his subsequent work.