Now, if these people were to petition Congress to pass a law prohibiting matrimony, I ask, would gentlemen agree to refer such a petition?

An inviting opportunity offers for him to propose matrimony to her.

A man was derided who contemplated matrimony, for there was but

Then Ajax indiscreetly asked if he was about to commit matrimony.

Well, my dear, we did not enter matrimony with the idea that either of us was immortal.

Did you find anyone to devour? Apropos, has his majesty, the Sultan, ever mentioned matrimony to you, Staff?" Stafford looked round at him for an instant.

Ever since a memorable visit to Salt Lake City, where she had gone to the theatre, she had cherished some entirely novel ideas concerning matrimony.

"A Bachelor, 38, wishes meet Protestant, born 4th Sept., 1899, or 17th, 18th Sept., 1886, plain looks; poverty no barrier; view matrimony.

The parson did so by citing to the girl texts from the Bible enjoining matrimony as a duty.

"I'm not the old maid that eschews matrimony; all I want is to choose for you and Prue.

I have a notion that if I can extricate myself without wounding this poor little innocent, to forswear matrimony and march on to fame.

Canon III of the twenty-fourth session of Trent says: "If anyone shall say, that only those degrees of consanguinity and affinity which are set down in Leviticus [xviii, 6 ff.] can hinder matrimony from being contracted, and dissolve it when contracted; and that the Church can not dispense in some of those degrees, or ordain that others may hinder and dissolve it; let him be anathema.

I have a letter from Lord M. Such a one as I would wish for, if I intended matrimony.

We had a special reserved tent for tea, and Mrs. Westaway seemed to have every man in the place round her, and I heard one man come up and say, "Well, Phyllis, this is a joke to find you in this respectable hole; how do you like solid matrimony, old girl?"

It was by the representations of Miss Seward, who strongly urged on him the absolute necessity of his adherence to trade, if he wished to secure the means of accomplishing matrimony, that André was now persuaded to renounce, for some years longer, his desire for the army.

It is felt, therefore, that the appended printed form of thanks for wedding presentsbased on the model of the Field Service Postcardwill prove a great boon to all soldiers who meditate matrimony during short leave.

He offers matrimony to her, but in such a manner that she could not close with his offer.

If ever I perpetrate matrimony the participant in my degradation will be a fully developed mannot a hobbledehoy who falls in love, as he terms it, on an average about twice a week.

Cicero, treating of the many degrees of human commerce and society, places matrimony in the first rank.

For some years he had pondered matrimony, though without fixing his affections on any particular person.

You must have observed in the world a species of mortals who employ themselves in promoting matrimony, and without any visible motive of interest or vanity, without any discoverable impulse of malice or benevolence, without any reason, but that they want objects of attention and topicks of conversation, are incessantly busy in procuring wives and husbands.

Altogether, that first fortnight of his married life had been most satisfactory, and Mr. Whitelaw was inclined to regard matrimony as a wise and profitable institution.

About this time of life, if food is plenty where you live,for that, you know, regulates matrimony,you may be expecting to find yourself a grandfather some fine morning; a kind of domestic felicity that gives one a cool shiver of delight to think of, as among the not remotely possible events.

We had need to run down matrimony as we do, and to make that state the subject of our frothy jests; when we frequently render ourselves (for this of Tom's is not a singular case) the dupes and tools of women who generally govern us (by arts our wise heads penetrate not) more absolutely than a wife would attempt to do.

St. Paul, after speaking of the nobleness of virginity, proceeds, nevertheless, to sanction matrimony as in itself a hallowed and honourable estate.